Quality Management Resources

Family Practice/General Practice/Internal Medicine

Diabetes

• Diabetes Care & the Need for Change
• Lipid Management
  • Lipoprotein Management in Patients With Cardiometabolic Risk
• National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse
• National Diabetes Education Program

Health Literacy

• The Newest Vital Sign: A New Health Literacy Assessment Tool for Health Care Providers
• Ask Me 3
• American Academy of Family Physicians - Using a Simple Patient Registry to Improve Your Chronic Disease Care

HEDIS

• NCQA - HEDIS & Quality Measurements

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Pediatric

• Well Child (0 - 15 months)
  • Web MD - Growth and Development, Ages 1-15 months
  • Baby Center
  • I am Pregnant: A Site for Pregnancy and Babies
• Well Child (3 - 6 years)
  • Center for Healthcare Strategies: Improving Preventative Care Services for Children Toolkit
  • Health Policy, Health Reform, and Performance Improvement. Standardizations of Well Care services are intended to ensure that families receive core services and information. “One Size fits all” approach subjects families to unnecessary appointments.  This guide to future policies and research will help guide services due to time constraints.
  • Anticipatory guidance
  • EPSDT
• Well Child (Adolescent)
  • Center for Healthcare Strategies: Improving Preventative Care Services for Children Toolkit
  • Health Policy, Health Reform, and Performance Improvement. Standardizations of Well Care services are intended to ensure that families receive core services and information. “One Size fits all” approach subjects families to unnecessary appointments.  This guide to future policies and research will help guide services due to time constraints.
  • How do family physicians provide anticipatory guidance during well care visits? Anticipatory guidance is an important part of well child care, yet little is known about the way physicians provide this guidance. This is a study that describes methods that are used.
  • EPSDT

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ADHD

• American Academy of Pediatrics - Search Engine: Diagnosis and Evaluation of the Child with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
• International Society for Neurofeedback & Research - Barriers to effective treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
• MDwise ADHD Clinical Guidelines

Cervical Cancer

• American Academy of Family Physicians
• New Cervical Screening Program (Pap Tips): NSW Cervical Screening Program
• Wiley Inter Science - Psychosocial Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening: Concerns with Self-presentation and Social Evaluation
• Gynecologic Cancer Foundation - GCF - Cervical Cancer Facts (English and Spanish)
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention - Cervical Cancer Basic Information (English and Spanish)
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - Screening for Cervical Cancer, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

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