October 2007 Issue

Editorial

Putting information into action to better care for our patients
Bernard M. Rosof, MD, MACP

Practice Management

Part 1: Measuring quality of performance: Where is it headed, and who is making the decisions?
Janet M. Corrigan, PhD; Helen Burstin, MD, MPH

Part 2: Measuring quality of performance: What’s in store for 2008 and beyond
Janet M. Corrigan, PhD; Helen Burstin, MD, MPH

PCPI: What you should know about Consortium performance measures
Karen Kmetik, PhD

Physician Quality Reporting Initiative, 2007: A “mid-term” perspective
T homas B. Valuk, MD, JD

PQRI: Why I am not participating
Brian Bachelder, MD

How has the process been working out?

Pay-for-performance programs: Ethical questions and unintended consequences
Alan R. Nelson, MD, FACP

Before Closing

What you can do to prepare for performance measurement
Jeffrey L. Susman, MD

Clinical Topics

CME Appropriate advancement of type 2 diabetes therapy
Luigi Meneghini, MD; Laurence Kennedy, MD; Ronald Koff, MD; Louis Kuritzky, MD; Sandra Leal, PharmD, CDE; Kevin Peterson, MD, MPH; Virginia Zamudio, RN, MSN, CDE

GERD: A fresh look at a common problem in primary care
Nigel Flook, MD

CME Understanding insomnia: Diagnosis and management of a common sleep disorder
Joseph A. Lieberman III, MD, MPH; David N. Neubauer, MD

CME Preventing herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia through vaccination
Kevin P. High, MD, MSc

CME Management of rheumatoid arthritis: A primary care perspective
David S. Kountz, MD; Joan Marie Von Feldt, MD