TY - JOUR
KW - Aged
KW - Alzheimer Disease/therapy
KW - Benchmarking/standards
KW - Education, Medical
KW - Health Services Administration
KW - Humans
KW - Patient Care Management
KW - Patient Care/standards
KW - Practice Guidelines as Topic
KW - Primary Health Care/manpower
KW - United States
AU - D. L. Cherry
AU - C. Hahn
AU - B. G. Vickrey
A1 - 
AB - This paper presents a strategy for training primary care physicians in the identification, diagnosis and management of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. The strategy uses evidence-based practice guidelines to establish quality benchmarks and then provides training and other interventions to improve the quality of care received by these patients. The three projects described in this paper assumed that training of primary care physicians alone would not be sufficient to achieve the quality benchmarks derived from guidelines. The projects used creative training strategies supplemented by provider "tool kits", provider checklists, educational detailing, and endorsement from organizational leadership to reinforce what the primary care providers learned in educational sessions. Each project also implemented a system of dementia care management to "wrap around" traditional primary care to ensure that quality benchmarks would be achieved. Outcomes of two completed studies support the premise that it is possible to improve quality of dementia care through physician education that occurs in association with a coordinated system of dementia care management and in collaboration with community agencies to access guideline-recommended social services.
BT - International psychogeriatrics / IPA
C5 - Education & Workforce
CY - United States
DO - 10.1017/S1041610209008692
JF - International psychogeriatrics / IPA
N2 - This paper presents a strategy for training primary care physicians in the identification, diagnosis and management of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. The strategy uses evidence-based practice guidelines to establish quality benchmarks and then provides training and other interventions to improve the quality of care received by these patients. The three projects described in this paper assumed that training of primary care physicians alone would not be sufficient to achieve the quality benchmarks derived from guidelines. The projects used creative training strategies supplemented by provider "tool kits", provider checklists, educational detailing, and endorsement from organizational leadership to reinforce what the primary care providers learned in educational sessions. Each project also implemented a system of dementia care management to "wrap around" traditional primary care to ensure that quality benchmarks would be achieved. Outcomes of two completed studies support the premise that it is possible to improve quality of dementia care through physician education that occurs in association with a coordinated system of dementia care management and in collaboration with community agencies to access guideline-recommended social services.
PP - United States
PY - 2009
SN - 1741-203X; 1041-6102
EP - 52
EP - S44+
T1 - Educating primary care physicians in the management of Alzheimer's disease: Using practice guidelines to set quality benchmarks
T2 - International psychogeriatrics / IPA
TI - Educating primary care physicians in the management of Alzheimer's disease: Using practice guidelines to set quality benchmarks
U1 - Education & Workforce
U2 - 19288963
U3 - 10.1017/S1041610209008692
VL - 21 Suppl 1
VO - 1741-203X; 1041-6102
Y1 - 2009
ER -