Quality & Safety
Â鶹APP works with physicians who specialize in NM and EDX medicine with a mission to define quality of care, develop quality measures and promote quality improvement initiatives for NM and EDX medicine.
Quality Improvement in NM and EDX Medicine
Continuous Quality Improvement in NM and EDX Medicine
This paper discusses continuous quality improvement (CQI) in neuromuscular (NM) and electrodiagnostic (EDX) medicine, and the importance of integrating CQI principles into clinical practice to enhance patient care and meet evolving healthcare quality standards.
Quality Measures
Quality measures are tools that help to measure or quantify healthcare processes, outcomes and patient perceptions that are associated with providing high-quality health care.
Â鶹APP Meaure Sets
Quality Measures in Electrodiagnosis: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Endorsed by Â鶹APP
AAN Distal Symmetric Polyneuropathy Performance Measurement Set
Quality & Safety Articles
Quality care is key to every practice. Â鶹APP has developed articles on safety issues that can help your practice.
- EMG/NCS and Risk of Bleeding
- Needle EMG and the Risk of Pneumothorax
- NM Complications of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
- Percutaneous Sharp Injuries: Primary Prevention
- Safety of Direct Oral Anticoagulants (DOACS) in Needle EMG
- Statins and Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy
- and more!
External Quality Initiatives
For information on Medicare’s Quality Payment Program visit the Quality Payment Program (QPP) page.