title: Clinical excellence in physical medicine and rehabilitation: Examples from the published literature.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Advancements in medical knowledge and technology are enabling people to live longer with chronic medical conditions, and creating a need for physiatrists to help maintain and restore function. Clinical excellence in physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) is not well documented in the literature. The aim of this paper is to provide examples of clinical excellence in PM&R as they relate to the definition formulated by the Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence (MCACE).
  
  
  RESULTS
  A review of the literature revealed 1,686 published articles that were evaluated to determine their relevance to the definition of clinical excellence in PM&R. From these articles, exemplary case reports and research studies were identified for each of the domains of excellence.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The application of the definition of clinical excellence to PM&R is more than just an intellectual exercise, as it can help to establish the model to which physicians and trainees may want to aspire.
authors: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors: Alexis
authors: A
authors: Coslick
authors: Richard D
authors: RD
authors: Zorowitz
authors: Scott M
authors: SM
authors: Wright
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D006801:Humans; D010810:Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D009626:Terminology as Topic