I62. What Constitutes Quality of Care in Rheumatology?

Defining quality of care in rheumatology: the American College of Rheumatology white paper on quality measurement.

Introduction In recent years, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) has focused increasingly on the development, review, dissemination, and implementation of quality measures. To help position rheumatology providers as the leading force in defining the quality of rheumatology care, the ACR convened a Quality Measures White Paper Development Workgroup. This diverse workgroup’s charge includ...

What Constitutes a Contract?

Quality of care standards for nursing clinics in rheumatology.

BACKGROUND Nursing clinics in rheumatology (NCR) are organizational models in the field of nursing care. There are various NCR models, but there is no consensus on its operational definition. Our objective is to develop quality standards to define and characterize a NCR. METHOD Two-round Delphi method. The panel consisted of 67 experts: Rheumatologists and nurses of the nursing working group ...

What Constitutes an Effective Representation?

This paper presents a taxonomy of 19 cognitive criteria for judging what constitutes effective representational systems, particularly for knowledge rich topics. Two classes of cognitive criteria are discussed. The first concerns access to concepts by reading and making inferences from external representations. The second class addresses the generation and manipulation of external representation...

What constitutes a great review?