Patient Quality Measures: The Necessary Paradigm Shifts in Medicine
Journal Title: Heart Research – Open Journal - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Improving patient quality measures is a complex task. It involves more than simply telling caregivers to adopt new practices. Rather, it uses current research and tools to bring about creating changes in workplace attitudes, building teamwork among healthcare providers, and converting evidence based data into actual practice. There are many tools that physicians can use to change practice and improve on quality measures. Heart Research - Open Journal is one such tool. This electronic journal is an open access scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible medical information and research to a wide variety of healthcare individuals. We welcome everyone to our first journal and hope that is a valuable resource for the future. In this edition I am going to discuss changing role of physicians in medical practices as new research and therapy directs us towards better patient care. I will use one particular example that I am very familiar with, and this is the practice of transradial cardiac catheterization.
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Pranav M. Patel
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