Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Stanley Frencher Jr., MD, MPH
Stanley Frencher, Jr, MD, MPH is an assistant professor at the University of California Los Angeles and Director of Urology at Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital.
Patient Satisfaction is not Patient-Centeredness
As a newly minted physician, I find myself besieged by data about how happy patients are with the care we deliver. Press Ganey, HCAPS, Consumer Reports, US News and World Report were merely the beginning. Now, physician reimbursement is tied Continue Reading …
Reflections from Haiti: Chaos to Camaraderie
Doctor Stanley Frencher recounts recent experiences of working in a field hospital in the earthquake-ravaged nation of Haiti. But in the end, he ponders is the health care system of Haiti all that different from his home of inner-city Detroit?
Doctors March for Health Reform 2010 (Washington, DC)
Dr. Stanley Frencher helped to organize the Doctors March for Health Reform. He spoke before a gathered crowd of physicians, Congressional Representatives, and Senators including Senator Charles E. Schumer for whom he once interned. Watch the Press Conference below.
Missing the Mark on Pay-for Performance: Questionable Validity in Quality Metrics Limit Medicare P4P Program in Orthopedic Surgery
This study, using administrative data, aimed to evaluate the metrics used in a Medicare Pay-for-Performance (P4P) project in 2003, which included 260 hospitals across 38 states, with plans to expand nationally in 2009. Arthroscopic surgery is an ideal candidate condition Continue Reading …
Competence and capacity: the right practitioner for the right procedure?
British researchers conducted a pragmatic, randomized trial aiming to compare the effectiveness of doctors and nurses performing upper and lower endoscopy. The authors enrolled 29 hospitals comparing 67 doctors to 30 nurses who performed endoscopic procedures on 1888 randomized patients Continue Reading …