Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) – Page 2

ACO Reimbursement and Gain Sharing

NEJM report of ACO financial model fails to include risk of delayed start on transformation

On March 23, 2011, Trent Haywood, MD, JD, and Keith Kosel, PhD, MBA published the results in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) web

Dr. Ward March 30, 2011 3 Comments

Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)

The Smoking Intervention Program, a Provider-based Care Management Process

Smoking cessation is an important public health concern, and has been the subject of a recent Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) guideline,

Dr. Ward January 28, 2011 No Comments

Clinical Practice Guidelines and Protocols

Using Eddy’s Explicit Method to Develop Practice Guidelines for Mammography in the 40-49 Age Group

Note that the following write-up is now almost 20 years old! (How did that happen?) Amazingly, the debate about the role and frequency of mammography

Dr. Ward January 27, 2011 4 Comments

Clinical Practice Guidelines and Protocols

CQI Methods Used Improve the Quality of Cervical Cancer Screening

A baseline evaluation of “Pap” smears done in a large multi-specialty group practice revealed that over 25% of samples were designated “less than optimal” because

Dr. Ward January 25, 2011 No Comments