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Performance Quality Improvement (PQI) Summit Proceedings
August 19, 2006
Chicago, IL

Table of Contents

  I. Summit Welcome Letter
II. Summit Program
III. Attending Societies
IV. National Mandates to Improve Quality and Patient Safety - Stephen Swensen, M.D.
V. The Role of the American Board of Pediatrics in Improving Children's Healthcare, Part IV MOC - Paul Miles, M.D.
VI. PQI Summit ABR Presentations
VII. Current Initiatives - Clinical and Practice Guidelines - Daniel Rosenthal, M.D.
VIII. Current Initiatives - Development of a Practice Improvement Plan for a New Radiation Oncology Department - Molly Gabel, M.D
IX. Current Initiatives - Departmental Realities in Implementation - Richard Baron, M.D.
X. Breakout Sessions:
    a. Clinical Practice Guidelines - Diagnostic Radiology
b. Double Reading/Accuracy of Interpretation - Diagnostic Radiology
c. Turnaround Time - Diagnostic Radiology
d. Patient Safety - Diagnostic Radiology
e. Referring Physician Surveys - Diagnostic Radiology
f. Radiation Oncology
g. Radiologic Physics
  XI. Power of a National Database in Quality Patient Care - James Borgstede, M.D
XII. PQI Frequently Asked Questions
XIII. Summary and Impact
XIV. General ABMS Guidelines
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