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Mass E mail to Parents For
Health Education
Ten Commandments To Reduce
Medical Errors
Ten Commandments for a Better Outcome
The 21st century Pediatrician
- He or she is a board certified in Pediatrics.
- Can see patients on the same day if the parents are concerned.
- The waiting time at their reception area is not longer than 20 to 30 minutes.
- Urgent phone calls are returned with an hour; routine calls in 24 hours.
- Phone calls are
answered by real people, not by a machine.
- Can be reached by e mail and answers e mail in 48 hours.
- Has an office website whose purpose is patient education and easy communication.
- Has a mass e mail
system whose goal is to educate parents and
patients.
- Has computers at each examination room connected to T1 or Cable.
- He or she is familiar with Evidence Based Guidelines or other sources (Cochrane Data Base, ACP, clinicalvidence.org, AAP.org, etc) and access it at the time of visit.
- Gives printed patient instructions for chronic conditions as well as preventive advices such as AAP Patient Education CD or e mail preventive advices.
- Has a legible medical record with summary of all visits and immunizations.
- Has an Electronic
Medical Records that can do outcome study.
- Has a Website with
Scripted Clinical history for easy communication
& diagnosis
- Courteous, accommodating, and fun office staff.
Evidenced Based Pediatrics
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Made Simple Leo Leonidas, MD, FAAP, Assistant Clinical Professor in Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston; Attending Pediatrician, Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor, Maine
Please send my your suggestions and comments to improve this site:
lleonidas@pcpediatrics.org
I wrote and designed this website for parents of our practice. Before you use ideas from this website, please discuss it first with your clinician if you are not with our practice.
copyright Leo Leonidas 2002
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