title: Assessing quality. As pressure mounts for clinics to deliver quality, medical practice blueprints and genograms serve as useful tools.
abstract: Increasingly, medical practices feel pressure to provide and communicate high quality patient care. Offering their insight on how a medical practice can improve quality, the authors describe the process of delivering medical care during patient encounters. Specifically, they present two methods that can be used to understand, evaluate, and improve interactions between patients and providers: medical practice blue prints and medical practice genograms.
authors.affiliation: University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA.
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Rodie
authors.forename: L G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Pol
authors.forename: B F
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Crabtree
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: McIlvain
mesh_terms: D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities / Q000592:standards*; D005194:Family Practice / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D017146:Models, Organizational; D015279:Organizational Culture; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000592:standards*; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States