Heart Care - Heart Attack & Heart Failure

Title:	Quality Improvement In Cardiology: Ending Business as Usual
Date:	3/11/2004
Presenter:	Eric Peterson, MD, Division of Cardiology at Duke University
Description:	PowerPoint presentation focusing on the following areas: identify current forces shaping quality assessment / quality improvement in medicine; understand lessons learned from recent large-scale QI efforts in cardiology, and identify upcoming challenges in QI and the potential roles for the QIOs in these. Includes an overview of the “next order” challenges for the quality field and the potential role that the QIO may play in addressing these challenges.
Keywords:	quality measurement/quality improvement, medicine, QI collaborations, “the business as usual mentality,” cardiology, QIOs