Resources
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Academy for Collaborative Education
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
American Medical Group Association
The Care Model: Improving Chronic Care
The Chronic Care Model is a framework that has helped us understand the elements of chronic illness care and how these elements fit into front line systems. Clinical microsystem thinking further advances this model through understanding the nature of the work and relationships that go on day in and day out within and between microsystems.
Used with permission. Wagner EH. Chronic Disease Management: What will it take to improve care for chronic illness? ECP, Aug 1998, 1:1; 22-24.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) is an integrated academic medical center located on a 225-acre campus in the heart of New Hampshire's Upper Connecticut River Valley in Lebanon. DHMC comprises Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital (a 396-bed tertiary care hospital), the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic (a network of more than 900 primary and specialty care physicians located throughout New Hampshire and Vermont), Dartmouth Medical School and the Veteran's Affairs Memorial Hospital in White River Junction, VT.
Group Practice Improvement Network (GPIN)
Health Care Improvement Leadership Development
Health Care Improvement Leadership Development (HCILD) is part of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) in Lebanon, New Hampshire,formerly the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS). The CECS was established in 1989 by Dr. John "Jack" Wennberg to unite faculty and students interested in cutting edge research on critical medical and health-care issues. In 1994, Dr. Paul Batalden, distinguished for his work in quality improvement, was recruited by CECS to establish Health Care Improvement Leadership Development. HCILD's main goal is developing knowledge and leadership for the improvement of health care systems that result in cost effective, patient-centered quality care both nationally and internationally. HCILD staff members are consultants to the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Veteran's Administration, Premier Health Systems, and many other well respected health care related organizations.
Hows Your Health?
www.howsyourhealth.org (and www.howsyourhealth.com) is one of several Dartmouth COOP Clinical Improvement Systems. The Dartmouth COOP is a voluntary (and cooperative) network of independent clinicians. For more than 25 years, the Dartmouth COOP has collaborated with academic researchers to improve health and medical care and develop products that work in busy practice settings. The Dartmouth COOP has published more than 50 articles describing this experience.
Improving Chronic Illness Care
Institute for Clinical System Improvement
Institute for Family Centered Care
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Institute for Healthcare Improvement - IdealizedDesign of Clinical Office Practices
Institute for Healthcare Improvement - Pursuing Perfection
Institute of Medicine Report - Crossing the Quality Chasm
National Guideline Clearing House
SQUIRE Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence