#114 High Value Care: Assess Quality, Mitigate Diagnostic Uncertainty, Overcome Barriers

Kick up the quality of your care with tips and tactics from Caitlin Clancy MD, coauthor of ACP’s High Value Care Curriculum. We learn to define quality and value in healthcare; the most common barriers to high value care; use of probability and likelihood ratios to boost clinical reasoning and combat diagnostic uncertainty; some useful tools to estimate cost; sources of healthcare waste; and some general pearls on how the healthcare system works...or doesn’t. ACP members can claim free CME-MOC at acponline.com/curbsiders (goes live 0900 EST on podcast release date). Full show notes available at http://thecurbsiders.com/podcast. Join our mailing list and receive a PDF copy of our show notes every Monday. Rate us on iTunes, recommend a guest or topic and give feedback at [email protected]. Credits: Written & Produced by: Matthew Watto MD Hosts: Paul Williams MD, Stuart Brigham MD, Matthew Watto MD Guest: Caitlin Clancy MD Time Stamps 00:00 Disclaimer, intro and guest bio 03:50 Guest one-liner, some discussion on non traditional paths, and picks of the week 12:10 Case 1: Defining value, cost, quality; sources of healthcare waste; and how to avoid the waste of daily labs 23:00 Case 2: An uninsured patient who needs major surgery; costs for uninsured versus insured patients 28:35 Do insured patients have better outcomes? 31:15 How to determine cost and “fair market price” 36:29 Case 3: Clinical case of suspected heart failure 45:45 Case 4: Clinical case of patient requesting antibiotics; barriers to high value care and how to overcome them 57:05 Outro Tags: high, value, care, quality, cost, diagnostic, uncertainty, likelihood, ratio, testing, treatment, consumer, acp, college, american, insured, uninsured, bill, charge, reimbursement,