Morbidity and mortality audits: "How to"for family practice.

Problem Being Addressed: While professions hold their members responsible for self-regulation, many physicians have insufficient information about outcome measures in their practices to judge performance and are inexperienced in performing audits to gather the information they need to judge performance.

Objective Of Program: To develop a structure and process to support family doctors with little experience in doing quality improvement studies to conduct morbidity and mortality (M&M) audits.

Program Description: A family medicine teaching group provides members on a rotating basis to an M&M review committee.