Quality improvement in neurology: Child neurology quality measure set: Executive summary.

Quality improvement in neurology: Multiple sclerosis quality measures: Executive summary.

All clinicians believe they provide quality care, yet most clinicians do not directly measure quality parameters in their practice to provide verifiable health care outcomes. Quality measures related to a chronic disease provide reportable and repeatable measures that can either document performance of quality care or identify gaps in care for future action/improvement. Disease-specific quality...

Quality Improvement in Neurology: Dementia Management Quality Measures (Executive Summary)

This article represents the efforts of an interdisciplinary work group, the Dementia Measures Work Group (DWG), composed of representatives of diverse national organizations who convened specifically to define optimal standards of dementia care for individual practitioners as well as multidisciplinary teams. The DWG measurement set includes all stages of dementia in a single measure set, calls ...

Quality improvement in neurology: Stroke and Stroke Rehabilitation Quality Measurement Set update.

Comparing the Quality of Life in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis Consuming Fingolimod and CinnoVex

Background: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic demyelinating, inflammatory, and degenerative disease of the central nervous system. MS gradually limits and deteriorates the patients’ quality of life. Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate and compare the quality of life in patients with MS consuming Fingolimod and CinnoVex. Materials & Methods: In an analytical cross-sectional study, 106 ...

Quality improvement in neurology: AAN Parkinson disease quality measures.

BACKGROUND Measuring the quality of health care is a fundamental step toward improving health care and is increasingly used in pay-for-performance initiatives and maintenance of certification requirements. Measure development to date has focused on primary care and common conditions such as diabetes; thus, the number of measures that apply to neurologic care is limited. The American Academy of ...