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MQIC is pleased to announce a NEW clinical practice guideline, Advance Care Planning! The development of this guideline was a collaborative effort among many organizations across Michigan, with the purpose to “assist practitioners in engaging patients in a discussion of goals, preferences, and priorities regarding the patient’s care at different stages of life. The guideline recommends tools and interventions to address Advance Care Planning across the patient population.”
Guidelines recently updated are:
- MQIC 2012 Management and Prevention of Osteoporosis
- MQIC 2012 Primary Care Diagnosis and Management of Adults with Depression
- MQIC 2012 Adult Preventive Services Ages 18 to 49
MQIC’s Monthly Message
A healthy heart is vital to a healthy life. In celebration of American Heart Month, patients are encouraged to increase awareness of their risk factors and take steps to help prevent heart disease. By making a concerted effort and decreasing risk(s), people can add years to their life. Helpful recommendations include:
- Don’t smoke, and avoid secondhand smoke.
- Control blood pressure and cholesterol.
- Manage stress and seek help from others if needed.
- Maintain a healthy weight and eat healthful foods. Use spices and herbs to make foods more flavorful, and control salt and sugar intake.
- Maintain an active and healthy lifestyle – 30 minutes of exercise five times per week.
- Moderation of alcohol intake is necessary.
When adults follow these recommendations, their children can learn to lead a healthier lifestyle and decrease their heart disease risk for the future. Let's start reversing the trend of heart disease.
Children are our future. Whether it's educating about heart disease or oral health, children need to learn good habits.
February is also National Children's Dental Health Month. Adult teeth can last a lifetime, and baby teeth provide the needed space in the jaw for the adult teeth, so it's important to begin good oral and dental health from birth. Tooth decay can be a painful experience and make eating a problem, so by educating on the following, some problems can be avoided.
- Clean baby teeth with a clean cloth or soft children’s toothbrush after feeding.
- Infants should not go to bed with a bottle.
- Teach children to brush at least two times per day.
- Avoid sugary drinks. If consumed, be sure to brush teeth after.
Bad habits can be easily started, but good habits can be too.
Physician tools have been added to the website for depression, hypertension and osteoporosis.
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About Our Committee
The Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium will establish and implement a core set of clinical practice guidelines and performance measures with a focus on improvement for effecting positive health outcomes.
Medical Directors' Committee
- Develop common evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
- Provide direction and final decisions for MQIC
Measurement Workgroup
- Establish common definitions of populations among all health plans
- Establish common measurement protocols consistent with MQIC guidelines
- Report and trend community-based performance results for key measures related to MQIC clinical practice guidelines, providing data for benchmarking and improvement
Implementation Workgroup
- Research and provide tools and educational materials as supplemental resources for physicians and their staff that support implementation of the MQIC clinical practice guidelines
- Coordinate health plan and physician activities that complement MQIC quality improvement efforts
- Coordinate MQIC communications
Our Mission
The Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium will establish and implement a core set of clinical practice guidelines and performance measures. The interventions designed and implemented by each plan to improve consistent delivery of services will be at the discretion of individual plans, but guidelines, performance goals, measurement methodology, and performance reporting will be standardized.
Participants
MQIC membership is diverse and includes physicians, health plan administrators, researchers, quality improvement experts, and specialty societies. The consortium recognizes the need to collaborate with other entities and experts to successfully achieve the consortium's vision.
Organizations and Health Plans