Primary Care and Health-Care Delivery
Primary Care and Delivery
Primary Care and Patient Safety
Our program in primary care and health-care delivery addresses how to improve clinical decisions, quality of care and patient safety. We study how to develop and implement best clinical practices through clinical guidelines and decision support; how to measure and improve the quality of care; and to develop measures that promote patient safety.
CHP/PCOR Director Douglas K. Owens is an expert in decision theory, cost-effectiveness of preventive and treatment interventions for HIV, treatment strategies for cardiovascular disease and cancer and the evaluation of public health interventions. He was the former chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a volunteer panel of nationally recognized experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine that impacts virtually every primary care patient and practiced in the United States.
