We offer the most advanced treatment options available including:

• Minimally Invasive (MIS) Total Knee Replacement (TKA)
• Computer Assisted Surgery (CAS) – Navigation
• Partial Knee Replacement (TKR)
• Patient Matched Total Knee Replacement
• Knee Arthritis Surgery
• Total Knee Replacement (TKR)
• Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Injury Care
• Cartilage Regeneration Surgery
• Knee Arthroscopy
• Fracture Surgery
• Sports Medicine

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Quality Measures Report

Quality Outcomes for Advanced Knee Care

The following quote comes from a Registered Nurse that is Consultant in Quality Outcomes for a large Arizona Healthcare provider. “Physician Performance measured using outcome data directly correlates with Quality of Care”. With an eye to the future and a desire to be one of the industry leaders, Dr. Tarlow at Advanced Knee Care will publish data which is used to measure quality in Orthopedic Surgery care today in the U.S. He wants to make this information available to empower you, the patient, to make informed decisions based on quality driven data. Most of the data is derived from the hospital level and is reported either at the state or federal level. In time Dr. Tarlow will develop a tool to survey his office patients with the purpose of measuring and reporting patient satisfaction. There will be a link at the end of this introduction to the data.

The US government is measuring SCIP (surgical care improvement project). SCIP is a multi-year national campaign and partnership of leading public and private healthcare organizations aimed at reducing surgical complications by 25 percent by the year 2010. SCIP is sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in collaboration with a number of other national partners serving on the steering committee, including the American Hospital Association (AHA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and others.

Efforts to improve health care in the United States can succeed only when those working toward that goal are equipped with accurate, complete and timely information on important health care processes and outcomes.

Improvement in health care quality and patient safety can occur through a collaborative process in which key stakeholders agree on a strategy for measuring performance at the physician level; collecting and aggregating data in the least burdensome way; and reporting meaningful information to consumers, physicians and other stakeholders to inform choices and improve outcomes.

Two reports, To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm document the alarming extent of quality problems in this country and the compelling need to overhaul our health care delivery system if we want to improve quality of care. HHS Objectives 5.1 and 5.2 address the need to “reduce medical errors” and “increase the appropriate use of effective health care services by medical providers.” The first steps in reducing errors and improving the quality of health care delivery are problem identification
and root cause analysis, two data-dependent activities. Likewise, determining whether or not interventions have led to real improvement requires re-measurement. A frequently cited rule of quality improvement is that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” But the current health information infrastructure makes quality measurement limited, costly, and burdensome.
The recent National Healthcare Quality Report documents wide variation in health outcomes among states, health plans and hospitals as well as in the extent to which health care reflects recommended clinical guidelines. These variations in care, coupled with recent evidence of the impact of public reporting on quality performance measures, suggest an important role for consumer information about quality as a force in driving healthcare professionals and organizations to improve. Consumers need information at the local level, about individual clinicians, medical groups, hospitals and other care facilities if public reporting on quality performance is to be effective.

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