This quality improvement project showed that screening for visual acuity and stereovision among preschool-aged children using chart-based techniques is difficult to accomplish and unlikely to be consistently successful, especially among 3-year-olds....
This project showed that the implementation of a quality improvement project in a primary care setting can lead to significant improvements in staff BP knowledge and patient BP readings. However, future research in this area is required to determine whether particular lifestyle changes are directly ...
National efforts have been made to raise awareness and promote cardiovascular risk reduction; however, more efforts are required at the health care system level to mitigate this risk. The implementation of quality improvement projects incorporating current evidence can not only address unmet patient ...
This quality improvement project implemented an evidence-based immunization protocol aimed at decreasing pain and distress associated with immunizations for children ages 4 to 6 by utilizing distraction and a benzocaine-based anesthetic spray. The original protocol is used at a large, university-based ...
In the context of both chronic pain and opioid crises, this large-system quality improvement project sought to increase use of evidence-based multimodal pain management strategies. Primary care providers (PCPs) in internal medicine and family medicine identified as above-median prescribers of 30-day...
Following this, the aim was to re-assess the effect of the intervention and identify further areas for improvement. Methods: A baseline retrospective analysis of knee MRIs requested from primary care in symptomatic patients ≥45years over a two-month period was undertaken. A new referral pathway ...
the performance reports produced were mostly tailored to healthcare managers’ needs. The COMPAS project was launched to develop more relevant and practical performance reports adapted to clinicians’ specific needs and that would induce them to become involved in the continuous quality improvement process...
Quality improvement programmes were effective for depression in managed primary careClinic randomised {allocation concealed**See glossary.}??Information provided by author., unblinded*, controlled trial with 1 year of follow up.doi:10.1136/EBMH.3.3.92Tim Usherwood...
and the quality of diabetes care. A wide range of interventions has been implemented and evaluated to improve diabetes care. We aimed to review trials of quality improvement (QI) interventions aimed to reduce health inequities among people with diabetes in primary care and to explore the extent ...
Improving primary care quality is a national priority, but little is known about the extent to which small- to medium-size practices use quality improvement strategies to improve care.