title: The Minnesota Clinical Comparison and Assessment Project.
abstract: Efforts to quantify and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of health care services are critical to the health care system in the United States. Essential components of these efforts are clinician involvement and support and reliable clinical information systems. Organized medicine and the hospital industry in Minnesota have initiated and funded the Minnesota Clinical Comparison and Assessment Project (MCCAP) to begin to document, compare, and improve health care services. Through MCCAP, a forum, comprising leaders in the Minnesota health care community, oversees efforts to collaboratively identify and address quality of care. In addition, MCCAP will adapt guidelines for specific conditions/procedures, collect hospital-level data on clinical practices in the state relative to those conditions/procedures, and provide feedback so that physicians can evaluate their practice and modify it, if necessary, to improve quality of care.
authors.affiliation: Healthcare Education and Research Foundation, St. Paul, Minnesota.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Borbas
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Stump
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dedeker
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lurie
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: McLaughlin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schultz
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D008910:Minnesota; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011364:Professional Practice / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care