273255 Oral Health Quality Improvement in the Era of Accountability

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 : 8:35 AM - 9:10 AM

Paul Glassman, DDS, MA, MBA , Pacific Center for Special Care, University of the Pacific School of Dentistry, San Francisco, CA
     
The recent IOM recommendations call for oral health delivery systems to develop and adopt measures to improve quality and lower costs of delivering oral health care. This parallels the trends in general health care. The purpose of this session is to review general health care activities and health reform provisions in quality improvement and use these to explore quality improvement activities in oral health. The Kellogg report on “Oral Health Quality Improvement in the Era of Accountability”, published in January 2102 will serve as background for this session. This session will review the meaning of quality in oral health, challenges that the oral health delivery system has in measuring and improving quality and opportunities to measure and improve quality in oral health as the U.S. moves into the “Era of Accountability”.

Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Biostatistics, economics
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Public health or related public policy
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Describe the drivers of heath reform and the pressures that are bringing the oral heath profession into the era of accountability

Keywords: One Health, Accountability

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am qualified to give this presentation on this material because I have massive experience in this area of expertise and have made numerous presentations on this topic on a national level.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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