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Strategies for implementing quantifiable group practice guidelines.

J L Gruber
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Abstract

Managed care organizations are striving to provide quality healthcare by establishing best-practice guidelines that decrease the variability in delivering care. Current literature provides few details on how organizations have developed and implemented guidelines and evaluated indicators. This article describes Methodist Medical Group's step-by-step approach to executing each component of this process for seven guidelines in physician office practices. It offers practical guidance for choosing a measurement method for each guideline, introduces patient surveys to measure guidelines, and identifies proven strategies for overcoming barriers in each phase.

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J L Gruber. Strategies for implementing quantifiable group practice guidelines.. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-1474.1999.tb00970.x

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