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Publication Date: November 2002
Publisher: California HealthCare Foundation
Author(s): Neil A. Solomon; Margie Powers
Research Area: Health
Type: Report
Abstract:
This report provides a general landscape of activity and demand for quality improvement in chronic condition management among medical groups. In this study, NAS Consulting Services describes nine types of technical assistance to support medical groups in their development of programmatic options to enhance chronic disease care. Medical groups have the capacity to perform aspects of quality improvement for which individual physicians or small offices are ill equipped, such as registry development, population management, and guidelines implementation. The authors looked at whether the Pay for Performance initiative will likely motivate change in medical groups, the quality improvement infrastructure of medical groups, and which types of technical assistance would be in greatest demand.