Patient Quality Measures: The Necessary Paradigm Shifts in Medicine

Abstract

Improving patient quality measures is a complex task. It involves more than simply
telling caregivers to adopt new practices. Rather, it uses current research and tools to bring
about creating changes in workplace attitudes, building teamwork among healthcare providers,
and converting evidence based data into actual practice. There are many tools that physicians
can use to change practice and improve on quality measures. Heart Research - Open Journal
is one such tool. This electronic journal is an open access scholarly journal, dedicated to making
accessible medical information and research to a wide variety of healthcare individuals.
We welcome everyone to our first journal and hope that is a valuable resource for the future.
In this edition I am going to discuss changing role of physicians in medical practices as new
research and therapy directs us towards better patient care. I will use one particular example
that I am very familiar with, and this is the practice of transradial cardiac catheterization