Priorities in patient-care research and continuing medical education
- 22 April 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 204 (4) , 303-308
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.204.4.303
Abstract
A priority system was developed to define areas of patient-care research or education or both that might be most rewarding in terms of potential improvement of medical care. This system, applicable to any given population, consists of 3 sequential steps: ranking each medical condition according to expected patient impairment, determining which of these conditions encompass sufficient preventable or remedial impairment to warrant the 3rd step; and assessing medical care provided, to identify where further effort might be indicated to effect improvement. As a result, investigation of 6 top ranking disease categories at the Rock-ford (III) Memorial Hospital revealed areas of educational needs ranging from those where little instructional effort seemed warranted to those where immediate action seemed indicated.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: