The American Medical Association (AMA) has released two new reports to help physicians optimise the quality and safety of patient care. A guide to patient safety organisations (PSOs) is being offered free online to all physicians to help them participate in PSOs, a way for physicians to voluntarily report and learn from adverse safety events. The second report, a study of medical societies' role in helping guide quality improvement initiatives, finds that physicians strongly believe that AMA is best equipped to assist physicians with improving the quality of healthcare.
The 'Physician's Guide to Patient Safety Organizations' contains practical information, including a glossary, a reporting checklist and a work-flow model. It also includes an analysis of patient safety evaluation systems and the 'Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005'.
In the second report, as part of AMA's ongoing emphasis on enhancing the quality of patient care, the AMA conducted focus groups with 13 medical societies to assess how the AMA and these groups can best advance quality initiatives. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the report focuses on care provided in the physician office, and found that a shared definition, best practices and resources will best sustain quality improvement efforts.
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