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Leader: James Balow, Chair, Medical Executive Committee

Collaborators: Consult Review Subcommittee of the Medical Executive Committee

David Henderson, Deputy Director for Clinical Care

Laura Lee, Special Assistant

Judi Miller, Nurse Consultant

Purpose/Goal: To evaluate and improve the quality of clinical consultative services provided to

Clinical Center patients and clinicians.

Scope: Scope of this project is limited to the evaluation of internal and external clinical

consultative services in the Clinical Center.

Potential

Barriers Lack of secure e-mail system or a comparable electronic system to deliver and

to Success: retrieve consult evaluations in a timely manner.

Resources: • 1 existing FTE

• Resources required for implementation of secure e-mail system or a comparable electronic system to deliver and retrieve consult evaluations in a timely manner

• All other resource requirements are available through existing programs

Timeline: Implementation of evaluation process Spring 2001

Outcomes: Development and implementation of an organizational process for systematically evaluating clinical consultative services in the CC.

>85% positive perception of clinical consultative services by CC patients and clinicians.

FY 2001 Key Initiative: Trans-Institute Consult Services Review

Strategic Priority # 1: New Services and Training

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