ReviewCurrent opinion in rheumatology2019
Quality improvement initiatives in rheumatology: an integrative review of the last 5 years.
Review in Current opinion in rheumatology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Physician inpatient handoffs-Patient and physician outcomes: A systematic review.Journal of hospital medicine · 2025Pooled it
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- Analysis of advice and guidance primary care queries to rheumatology over a calendar year-a diagnostic service evaluation.Rheumatology advances in practice · 2026Article
- Optimizing laboratory medication safety monitoring in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis to advance value-based care.Clinical rheumatology · 2025Article
- Twenty-Five Years of Evolution and Hurdles in Electronic Health Records and Interoperability in Medical Research: Comprehensive Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Review
- Designing, delivering and evaluating a specialty-specific quality improvement course for the rheumatology multidisciplinary team.Rheumatology advances in practice · 2025Article
- Quality Measures in Systemic Sclerosis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Hepatitis B Screening Before Biologic or Targeted Synthetic Disease-modifying Antirheumatic Drug Therapy: Many Roads to Improvement.The Journal of rheumatology · 2022Article
- The Development of the Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness Learning Collaborative for Improving Patient-Reported Outcome Collection and Patient-Centered Communication in Adult Rheumatology.ACR open rheumatology · 2021Article
- Identification of Five Quality Needs for Rheumatology (Text Analysis and Literature Review).Frontiers in medicine · 2021Review
- Quality Measures and Quality Improvement Initiatives in Osteoporosis-an Update.Current osteoporosis reports · 2019Review
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Abstract
purpose of reviewWe reviewed recent quality improvement initiatives in the field of rheumatology to identify common strategies and themes leading to measurable change. RECENT
findingsEfforts to improve quality of care in rheumatology have accelerated in the last 5 years. Most studies in this area have focused on interventions to improve process measures such as increasing the collection of patient-reported outcomes and vaccination rates, but some studies have examined interventions to improve health outcomes. Increasingly, researchers are studying electronic health record (EHR)-based interventions, such as standardized templates, flowsheets, best practice alerts and order sets. EHR-based interventions were most successful when reinforced with provider education, reminders and performance feedback. Most studies also redesigned workflows, distributing tasks among clinical staff. Given the common challenges and solutions facing rheumatology clinics under new value-based payment models, there are important opportunities to accelerate quality improvement by building on the successful efforts to date. Structured quality improvement models such as the learning collaborative may help to disseminate successful initiatives across practices. SUMMARY: Review of recent quality improvement initiatives in rheumatology demonstrated common solutions, particularly involving leveraging health IT and workflow redesign.
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