Manag Care Q. 2001 Summer;9(3):10-24.

Quality, clinical practice improvement, and the episode of care.

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Institute for Clinical Outcomes Research, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

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To improve routine clinical practice, we must measure patients treated in routine practice (effectiveness research), not in specially controlled circumstances (efficacy research). We describe a new study methodology, Clinical Practice Improvement (CPI), designed to develop data-driven, analytically-based protocols to achieve desirable outcomes at the lowest essential cost over the continuum of care. Measurement in CPI encompasses a comprehensive view of care management: patient characteristics, process steps, and outcomes. All three classes of data are considered simultaneously, providing a basis for meaningful analyses of significant associations between processes and outcomes. We present an example of a CPI pediatric asthma study.

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