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Common Table Update

Help your Patients Take Charge For Better Health — with a Quality Checklist!

Checklists have been proven to work to improve health care quality

Evidence suggests that checklists work best when they are given to patients along with brief counseling by their doctor or nurse emphasizing their most important care

Memphis physicians have worked together with regional and national experts through the Aligning Forces for Quality Initiative to develop a simple, easy-to-use quality checklist that doctors and nurses can provide to patients as a visit summary in order to emphasize preventive and chronic disease care

The Quality Checklist includes:

Essential preventive care for adults
Essential chronic disease care for diabetes, congestive heart failure and coronary artery disease, the most common serious diseases in Memphis
Room for personalized instructions

Physicians benefit from using the Quality Checklist because:

Doctors, nurses and other clinic staff can use it to emphasize essential care
Your patients partner with you to help improve practice quality scores
Items correspond to core quality reporting measures for Memphis
Items cover what Memphis physicians are trying to do for patients anyway, so no time is added to the visit
It is proactive defense against malpractice. Major malpractice insurers recommend using such a visit summary to protect against claims
Patients like it