Clinical excellence in nephrology: Examples from the published literature

BMC Nephrology

Scott M. Wright¹  Edward S. Kraus¹  Amar J. Srivastava¹  Steven K. Lee¹  Duvuru Geetha¹ 

[1] Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University, 301 Mason Lord Drive, Baltimore 21224, MD, USA

关键词: Nephrology;    Renal medicine;    Clinical excellence;   

Others  :  1223607
DOI  :  10.1186/s12882-015-0134-1

 received in 2015-04-01, accepted in 2015-07-30,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Provision of exceptional medical care is a goal for the medical profession because this is what the public needs and deserves. Academic medical centers that value excellent clinicians may have the best chance to recruit and retain these faculty members. When our institution hoped to launch the Miller Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence to measure and reward master clinicians, a critical first step was to use rigorous methods to develop a definition of clinical excellence. Published papers have illustrated that this general definition of clinical excellence is applicable to fields of psychiatry, cardiology, and pediatrics.

Summary

In this manuscript, we apply the definition of clinical excellence to nephrology. Using the same framework, we reviewed the literature to find clinical cases and exemplary nephrologists that highlight the specific domains. This collection of reports in nephrology illustrates that the definition of clinical excellence set forth by the Miller Coulson Academy is highly applicable to physicians caring for individuals with kidney disease. Relating the definition of clinical excellence to renal medicine is worthwhile in that it can help to exemplify the model to which physicians and trainees may seek to aspire.

Key message

Many examples of clinical excellence in renal medicine can be found in the published medical literature. The domains of clinical excellence, described by the Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence, apply very well to the field of nephrology.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Geetha et al.

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