Quality Improvement: Practical Applications for Medical Group Practice

Balestracci and Barlow provide a clear and concise approach on improving medical care in a group practice setting. Areas covered include a primer on quality improvement theory and methods, good and bad uses of data, examples of improvement efforts, and presentation of simple yet powerful statistical methods that help clinicians in the real world of day-to-day care. The text is well written, well edited, and with just a little bite of humor to it. Worth every penny to busy physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals and managers interested in improving care.