Delivery and Measurement of High-Value Care in Standardized Patient Encounters.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Residencies have incorporated high-value care (HVC) training to contain health care expenditures. Assessment methods of HVC curricula are limited.

Objective

In our clinical skills laboratory, we evaluated the effectiveness of HVC curricula using standardized patients (SPs) to determine if there is a correlation with performance in counseling, history and physical, HVC knowledge, and demographics.

Methods

Through ambulatory cases, SPs evaluated postgraduate year 2 (PGY-2) residents using checklists to determine if they obtained the chief complaint, medical and social history, focused physical examination, and conveyed information regarding patient management. Investigators scored knowledge-based questions on the need for imaging in low back pain, annual stre

SUBMITTER: Baldwin JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5646926 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature