Smart Case Review: A Model For Successful Remote Medical Direction and Enhanced Nursing Home Quality Improvement.

J Am Med Dir Assoc

Multifacility Medical director, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address:

Published: October 2021

This article describes how medical directors can use a strategic approach [Smart Case Review (SCR)] to perform effective and efficient clinical case reviews and key medical director oversight functions simultaneously. SCR can be done either on-site or remotely, by using existing information in the medical record for a focused clinical discussion of patient symptoms and issues while simultaneously evaluating related clinical practices and facility processes and performance. Common problem-solving and cause identification methods apply to both patient- and process-related reviews. This approach supports effective and efficient medical direction and facility quality improvement. Unlike most current approaches to quality assurance and performance improvement, SCR begins by reviewing cases and then aggregates the findings, instead of vice versa. Although the electronic medical record (EMR) facilitates the process, it can be done without an EMR. Any medical director can potentially use this approach, and it is relevant to any long-term and postacute care facility. This method could potentially transform the approach to medical direction, evaluating quality and improving care, and the nursing home survey process.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2021.05.043DOI Listing

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