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David A Cook

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PubMed2003

Flexible teaching for inflexible schedules: an online resident curriculum in acute ambulatory care.

The authors report on a work in progress: a web-based curriculum for residents working shifts, addressing management of common acute outpatient problems. All components of the curriculum are available online, and residents may complete modules and submit tests at a time and from any location. There are few reports of web-based curricula in postgraduate training. Our interactive model avoids scheduling conflicts, is easily updated, encourages self-directed earning and facilitates resident assessment.

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PubMed2003

Monitoring the evolutionary process of quality: risk-adjusted charting to track outcomes in intensive care.

OBJECTIVE: To present graphical procedures for prospectively monitoring outcomes in the intensive care unit. DESIGN: Observational study: risk-adjusted control chart analysis of a case series. SETTING: Tertiary referral adult intensive care unit: Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia. PATIENTS: A total of 3398 intensive care unit admissions from January 1, 1995, to January 1, 1998. CONCLUSIONS: Risk-adjusted process control charting procedures for continuous monitoring of intensive care unit outcomes are proposed as quality management tools. A modified Shewhart p chart and cumulative sum process control chart, using the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation III model mortality prediction for risk adjustment, are presented. The risk-adjusted p chart summarizes performance at arbitrary intervals and plots observed against predicted mortality rate to detect large changes in risk-adjusted mortality. The risk-adjusted cumulative sum procedure is a likelihood-based scoring method that adjusts for estimated risk of death, accumulating evidence from outcomes of all previous patients. It formally tests the hypothesis of a change in the odds of death. In this application, we detected a decrease from above to predicted risk-adjusted mortality. This was temporally related to increased senior staffing levels and enhanced ongoing multidisciplinary review of practice, quality improvement, and educational activities. Formulas and analyses are provided as appendices.

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