Building bridges: engaging medical residents in quality improvement and medical leadership

Identifying high quality medical education websites in Otolaryngology: a guide for medical students and residents

BACKGROUND Learners often utilize online resources to supplement formalized curricula, and to appropriately support learning, these resources should be of high quality. Thus, the objectives of this study are to develop and provide validity evidence supporting an assessment tool designed to assess the quality of educational websites in Otolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery (ORL-HNS), and identify...

Evaluating the medical evidence for quality improvement.

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine has had both its triumphs and its disasters regarding the dissemination of new interventions. Evidence-based medicine (EBM), the integration of clinical expertise, patient values, and best evidence for decision making in patient care, provides a blueprint for how to safely and effectively continue make headway in our rapidly changing field. The principles of EBM have...

Engaging medical librarians to improve the quality of review articles.

Review articles published in JAMA summarize various aspectsofmedicalpracticeandarewrittenbyknownauthorities.Anexpert’sopinionabouta topichasvalue,but often more can be learned by that expert’s assessment ofall thepertinent literature.Whenreading individual research articles, readers couldmiss subtle features of the studies that are more apparent to an expert clinicianresearcher. Readers benefit...

"Unnatural deaths," criminal sanctions, and medical quality improvement in Japan.

Insurers' medical loss ratios and quality improvement spending in 2011.

The Affordable Care Act's medical loss ratio (MLR) regulation requires insurers to spend 80 percent or 85 percent of premiums on medical claims and quality improvements. In 2011, insurers falling below this minimum paid more than $1 billion in rebates. This brief examines how insurers spend their premium dollars--particularly their investment in quality improvement activities--focusing on diffe...