Virtual Mentor. June 2004, Volume 6, Number 6.

Suggested Reading and Resources

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Resources on The Ethics of Quality Care

Alexander GC, Werner RM, Ubel PA. The costs of denying scarcity. Arch Intern Med. 2004;164:593-596.

American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and American College of Endocrinology. The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists medical guidelines for the management of diabetes mellitus: The AACE system of intensive diabetes self-management—2002 update. Endocrine Practice. 2002;8:40-82.

American Diabetes Association: Clinical practice recommendations 2002. standards of medical care for patients with diabetes mellitus (Position Statement). Diabetes Care. 2002;25(suppl 1):33-49.

American Medical Association. AMA Web site. Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement. Physician performance measurement sets. Accessed May 18, 2004.

American Medical Association. Opinion 10.01 Fundamental Elements of the Patient-Physician Relationship. Code of Medical Ethics. Current Opinions. 2002-2003 Edition. Accessed April 29, 2004.

American Medical Association. Opinion 10.02 Patient Responsibilities. Code of Medical Ethics. Current Opinions. 2002-2003 Edition. Accessed April 29, 2004.

Andrews M. Does it pay to manage your own care? New York Times, January 18, 2004:7.

Andrus CH, Villasenor EG, Kettelle JB, Roth R, Sweeney AM, Matolo NM. "To Err Is Human": uniformly reporting medical errors and near misses, a naive, costly, and misdirected goal. J Am Coll Surg. 2003;196:911-8.

Anton v San Antonio Community Hosp.,19 Cal 3d 802, 140 Cal Rptr 442, 567 P2d 1162.

The Aviation Safety Reporting System. Accessed October 2, 2003.

Berkowitz C. Toward a quality workforce; setting the record straight. Pediatrics. 2003;112:418.

Berwick DM. A User's Manual for the IOM's "Quality Chasm" Report. Health Aff. 2002; 21:80-90.

Board on Health Care Services. Institute of Medicine. Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care. Washington DC: National Academy Press;2004: 247-316.

Chien-Wen T, Phillips RL, Green LA, Fryer GE, Dovey SM. What physicians need to know about seniors and limited prescription benefits, and why. Am Fam Physician. 2002; 66:212.

Coleman P, Shellow R. Extending physician's standard of care to non-physician prescribers: the RX for protecting patients. Idaho L. Rev.1998; 35:37.

Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine. To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Washington DC: National Academy Press; 2000.

Cooper R. The expanding scope of practice of non-physician clinicians and implications. J Med. Licensure & Discipline. 2003;89:75.

Cooper RA, Henderson T, Dietrich CL. Roles of nonphysician clinicians as autonomous providers of patient care. JAMA. 1998;280:795-802.

Coy P. Economic trends: when hospitals get graded, Business Week. April 1, 2002: 6.

Dailey GE III. Improving oral pharmacologic treatment and management of type 2 diabetes. Manag Care. 2004;13:41-7.

Druss BG, Marcus SC, Olfson M, Tanielian T, Pincus HA. Trends in care by nonphysician clinicians in the United States. N Engl J Med. 2003;348:130-137. 

Eisenberg JM. Doctors' Decisions and the Cost of MedicalCare. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Health Administration Press; 1986.

Enthoven AC. Employment-based health insurance is failing: now what? Health Aff. 2003;Suppl:W3:237-49.

Evans RW. Diagnostic testing for the evaluation of headaches. Neurol Clin. 1996;14:1-26.

Federation of State Medical Boards. Report of the Special Committee on Physician Profiling. Accessed May 1, 2004.

Ferguson TB, Jr., Peterson ED, Coombs LP, et al. Use of continuous quality improvement to increase use of process measures in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery: A randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2003; 290:49-56.

Fisher ES, Welch HG. Avoiding the unintended consequences of more medical care: how might more be worse? JAMA. 1999;281:446-453.

Forthman MT, Wooster LD, Hill WC, Homa-Lowry JM, DesHarnais SI. Insights into successful change management: empirically supported techniques for improving medical practice patterns. Am J Med Qual. 2003;18:181-189.

Frishberg BM, Rosenberg JH, Matchar DB, et al for the US Headache Consortium. Evidence-based guidelines in the primary care setting: neuroimaging in patients with nonacute headache. American Academy of Neurology Web site. Accessed May 25, 2004.

Gabel JR, LoSasso AT, Rice T. Consumer-driven health plans: are they more than talk now? Health Aff. 2002;20:W395-W407.

Gallagher TH, Waterman AD, Ebers AG, Fraser VJ, Levinson W. Patients' and physicians' attitudes regarding the disclosure of medical errors. JAMA. 2003;289:1001-1007.

Gilbody S, Whitty P, Grimshaw J, Thomas R. Educational and organizational interventions to improve the management of depression in primary care: a systematic review. JAMA. 2003;289:3145-3151.

Gould BE, Grey MR, Huntington CG, et al. Improving patient care outcomes by teaching quality improvement to medical students in community-based practices. Acad Med. 2002;77:1011-1018.

Greenwood MJ. The physician profile database: publishing malpractice information on the internet. J Legal Med. 2000;21:477.

Grumbach K, Coffman J. Physicians and nonphysician clinicians, complements or competitors. JAMA. 1998;280:825.

Health Policy Tracking Service. 2004 State Health Care Priorities Survey Report 14. 2003. 

Hibbard JH, Stockard J, Mahoney ER, Tusler M. Development of the Patient Activation Measure (PAM): conceptualizing and measuring activation in patients and consumers. Health Serv Res. August 2004. In Press.

Hibbard JH, Stockard J, Tusler M. Does publicizing hospital performance stimulate quality improvement efforts? Health Aff. 2003;22:84-94.

Hibbard JH. Engaging health care consumers to improve the quality of care. Med Care. 2003;41(Supp I):61-70.

Jacob JA. A consumer-driven future: when patients call the shots. Am Med News Sept 23/30, 2002. Accessed October 2, 2003.

Jacobi JV. After managed care: gray boxes, tiers and consumerism. St. Louis L J 2003; 47:397-410.

Jencks SF, Huff ED, Cuerdon T. Change in the quality of care delivered to medicare beneficiaries, 1998-1999 to 2000-2001. JAMA. 2003;289:305-312.

Johnson NE, Nash DB. Key factors in the implementation of a clinical quality improvement project: successes and challenges. Am J Med Qual. 1993;8(3):118-22.

Jonsen AR, Siegler M, Winslade W. Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Publishers; 2002.

Kaplan SH, Greenfield S, Ware JE Jr. Assessing the effects of physician-patient interactions on the outcomes of chronic disease. Med Care. 1989;27:S110-S127.

Kintisch E. FPs join the fight against psychologist prescribing. Family Practice News. February 1, 2003:9.

Leape L, Berwick D, Bates DW. What practices will most improve safety? Evidence based medicine meets patient safety. JAMA. 2002; 288:501-507.

Lewin v St. Joseph Hospital of Orange, 82 Cal App 3d at 394, 146 Cal Rptr 892.

Lichter PR. Confusing licensure with education: medicine's slippery slope. Fed'n Bull.: J Med Licensure & Discipline. 1995;82:16. 

Lipton RB, Scher AI, Kolodner K, Liberman J, Steiner TJ, Stewart WF. Migraine in the United States: epidemiology and patterns of health care use. Neurology. 2002;58:885-894.

Lorig K. Chronic disease self-management: a model for tertiary prevention. Am Behav Sci.1996;39:676-683.

Major v Memorial Hospitals Association (1999), 71 Cal App 4th 1380, 84 Cal Rptr 2^nd (Westlaw) 510:13.

Mariner WK. Slouching toward managed care liability: reflections on doctrinal boundaries, paradigm shifts, and incremental reform. J Law Med Ethics. 2001;29:253-277.

Marshall MN, Shekelle PG, Leatherman S, Brook RH. The public release of performance data: what do we expect to gain? A review of the evidence. JAMA. 2000;283:1866-1874.

Mateo-Woodburn v Fresno Community Hospital & Medical Center, 221 Cal App 3d at p. 1185, 270 Cal Rptr 894.

McGlynn EA, Asch SM, Adams J, et al. The quality of health care delivered to adults in the United States. N Engl J Med. 2003;348:2635-45.

McGlynn EA, Kerr EA, Adams J, Keesey J, Asch SM. Quality of health care for women. a demonstration of the quality assessment tools system. 2003. Med Care. 41:616-625.

Migraine. In: The International Classification Of Headache Disorders: 2nd Edition. Cephalalgia. 2004;24 Suppl 1:9-160.

Molitch ME, Fujimoto W, Hamman RF, Knowler WC for the Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. The diabetes prevention program and its global implications. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2003;14:S103-7.

Morrissey J. Massachusetts to publish doc profile data. Modern Healthcare. Aug. 5 1996:6.

Nash DB. Evaluating the competence of physicians in practice: from peer review to performance assessment. Acad Med. 1993;68:S19-22.

Nash DB. Improving the doctor-manager relationship. Doctors and managers: mind the gap. BMJ. 2003; 326(7390):652-3.

Obel J. Uncalculated risks; medical outcome data, if misused, can deprive patients of the care they need. Washington Post. January 14, 2003: F01.

Palmisano DJ. Patient safety legislation—an urgent call to action. Am Med News. May 17, 2004. Accessed May 20, 2004.

Performance Measurement Coordinating Council. Desirable attributes of performance measures. a consensus document from the AMA, JCAHO, and NCQA. 1999.

Pollit B. Fool's gold: psychologists using disingenuous reasoning to mislead legislatures into granting psychologist prescriptive authority. Amer J Law Med. 2003;29:489.

Quill TE, Brody H. Physician recommendations and patient autonomy: finding a balance between physician power and patient choice. Ann Intern Med. 1996;125:763-769.

Redding v St. Francis Medical Center, 208 Cal App 3d 103‑105, 255 Cal Rptr 806.

Samuel TW, Raleigh SG, Hower JM, Schwartz RW. The next stage in the health care economy: aligning the interests of patients, providers, and third-party payers through consumer-driven health care plans. Am J Surg. 2003;186:117-24.

Setness PA. When privacy and the public good collide. Does the collection of health data for research harm individual patients? Postgraduate Med. May 1, 2003:15.

Silberstein SD, for the US Headache Consortium. Practice Parameter: Evidence-based guidelines for migraine headache (an evidence-based review). Accessed May 25, 2004.

Sobri M, Lamont AC, Alias NA, Win MN. Red flags in patients presenting with headache: clinical indications for neuroimaging. Br J Radiol. 2003;76:532-535.

Strumsky v San Diego County Employees Retirement Assn. 11 Cal 3d 28 (1974), at 35,fn.2, 112 Cal Rptr 805, 520 P2d 29.

Teutsch C. Patient-doctor communication. Med Clin N Am. 2003;87:1115-1145

Tseng CW, Brook RH, Keeler E, Mangione CM. Impact of an annual dollar limit or "cap" on prescription drug benefits for Medicare patients. JAMA. 2003;290:222-227.

Twedt S. How the tables turn on doctors. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. October 26. 2003:A1.

Utilization Rates of Ophthalmology Versus Optometry. Accessed May 14, 2004. 

Von Korff M, Moore JE, Lorig K, et al. A randomized trial of a lay person-led self-management group intervention for back pain patients in primary care. Spine.1998;23:2608-2615.

Wenner D. Heart surgery statistics reported; hospitals post mortality rates. Patriot News. March 10, 2004:D01.

Woolf SH. Patient safety is not enough: targeting quality improvements to optimize the health of the population. Ann Intern Med. 2004;140:33.