Continuous Quality Improvement and the Care of Persons with Multiple Sclerosis: Two Case Studies
Miller, Deborah, M.; Neuhauser, Duncan; Miller, Deborah, M., The Mellen Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio; Neuhauser, Duncan, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Журнал:
Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
Дата:
1995
Аннотация:
The principles of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) continue to gain acceptance as a means of improving health care delivery. They are especially appropriate in the out patient management of a chronic progressive disease such as multiple sclerosis (MS). This paper reviews why CQI facilitates care with this type of disease; discusses how one clinical facility, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Mellen Center for Multiple Sclero sis Treatment and Research, has implemented these principles in defining and revising our general clinical operation; and describes how these same techniques are useful in developing (a) administrative strategies and (b) a treatment plan for one individual. Key Words: Multiple sclerosis—Continuous quality improvement—Comprehensive care.
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