5229.0: Wednesday, October 24, 2001: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM

Oral Session

Quality Improvement in Public Health: Four Examples of Programs that Work

23417, 26720, Farbstein, Merwin (new)
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: Papers already have objectives
Presider(s):Jon Thompson, PhD
4:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
4:35 PMFacilitating change in complex organizations: One health system's experience with a community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) quality improvement project
Yosef D. Dlugacz, PhD, Sara L. Merwin, MPH, Paul Gitman, MD, Bruce E. Hirsch, MD, Alan L. Silver, MD, MPH
4:55 PMPreventing adverse drug events: success stories
Ken Farbstein, MPP
5:15 PMCompetency based service quality for public health
David B. White, PhD, John J. Newhouse, EdD
5:35 PMMedicaid claims analyses: How can they help states to assess quality of care?
Joel Menges, MPA, Brian Haile, MA, MPP, Nancy Beronja, MBA
5:55 PMConcluding Remarks
Sponsor:Health Administration
Cosponsors:Black Caucus of Health Workers; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA