Translating Evidence into Practice 1997
Conference Summary
Contents
Clinical Evidence: Creation, Assessment, and Implementation
Keynote Address
Evidence-based Medicine: What Have We Learned?
Session A: ERISA: Interplay of State and Federal Responsibilities in Health Care
Interplay of State and Federal Responsibilities in Health Care
ERISA Preemption of Medical Malpractice and Related Remedies Against Managed Care Entities
ERISA Implications for State Activities in Health Care Quality
Interplay of State and Federal Responsibilities in Health Care
Enterprise Liability: A Reappraisal
Session B: Scientific Evidence and the Courts
When Courts Review Clinical Practice Guidelines
The Daubert Case and Expert Opinion
Session C: Implementation of Evidence-based Practice: Differing Perspectives
Strategies for Guideline Implementation: Some Ways to Approach the Issue of "Usability"
Implementation of Evidence-based Practice
Session D: Implementation of Technology Assessments
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Technology Assessment Program: Structures, Processes, and Models for Implementing Assessment Results
Translating Evidence into Practice: Implementation of Technology Assessments
Implementing Technology Assessment for Medicare Coverage Decisions
Session E: Ethical Issues in Health Care Delivery
Physicians' Use of Outcomes Data: Moral Conflicts and Potential Resolutions
Insurance Coverage for Promising But Unproven Last Change Therapies: Ethical Issues and Practical Policies
Session F: Evidence-based Medicine: Implementation in Managed Care—Lessons Learned
Translating Evidence into Practice at the Department of Veterans Affairs
Translating Evidence into Practice at PacifiCare, Washington
Translating Evidence into Practice at HealthPartners, Minneapolis
Session G: Using Information Systems to Support Evidence-based Practice
Using Information Systems to Support Evidence-based Practice
Implementing Guidelines in Systems of Care
How Does Practice Translate Into Evidence?
Session H: Implementing Guidelines in Systems of Care
Implementing Guidelines: Designing and Selecting Effective Strategies
Texas Medication Algorithm Project
Practice Guidelines and Malpractice Litigation: Collision or Cohesion?
Session I: Implementation and Adaptation of Guidelines Developed at a National Level
Interpreting Evidence: Some Caveats in Implementing and Adapting Guidelines Based on Evidence from Randomized Controlled Trials
The Need to Include Empiric Clinical Data in Formulating Medical Practice Guidelines
AHCPR Guidelines on Heart Failure: Comparison of a Family Medicine and Internal Medicine
Session J: Using Adverse Event Data to Improve Quality of Care
Every Defect a Treasure: Using Defect Data to Reduce Adverse Drug Events
Using Adverse Event Data to Improve Quality of Care
Session K: Educating Physicians for Evidence-based Practice
Evidence-based Information Resources for Clinical Learning and Practice
Evidence-based Medicine: A Cultural Shift in Residency Training
Changing Physician Performance: Use of Enabling and Reinforcing Techniques in Maintenance of Learning and Change
Session L: Legislating Clinical Care
Legislating Clinical Care
Legislation and Clinical Care
Session M: Using Evidence-based Quality Indicators
Using Evidence-based Quality Indicators
Cataloging and Evaluating Clinical Performance Measures: CONQUEST and the QMNet Initiative
Using Evidence-based Quality Indicators
Session N: Using Quality Indicators: Useful Tools for Investigation, Regulation, and Accreditation
The Next Wave of Quality Measurement: Key Challenges
Regional Quality Assurance Organizations: Regulator or Disseminator of Guidelines?
Quality Improvement Initiatives of the Health Care Financing Administration
Translating Evidence Into Practice
Session O: Overcoming Barriers to Implementation
Implementing Changes in Health Care Organizations: Lessons Learned and Future Challenges
Overcoming Barriers to Implementation
Session P: Implementing Guidelines in Specific Populations and Settings
Evidence-based Implementation of Clinical Practice Guidelines
Implementing Pressure Ulcer Guidelines in Long-Term Care
Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System (CHESS): In-Home, Computer-Based Patient Education and Support
Data Needs for Quality Measurement and Improvement
Final Session: Evidence-based Practice—An International Perspective
Evidence-based Practice: An International Perspective
International Perspectives on Implementation Research
Developing Evidence-based Health Care in the United Kingdom
Logic Methodology of Clinical Practice Guidelines
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