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The Kansas City Quality Improvement Consortium (KCQIC) was formed by the UAW-Ford Community Health Care Initiative and community stakeholders in November 2000 in response to the growing emphasis on evidence-based medicine and multiple parties involved in development of guidelines. In addition, there were occasionally overlapping and conflicting materials, wide-ranging levels of coordination on content, format, distribution, measures, application, differing levels of detail in materials, low utility of some formats, and varied levels of community physician involvement in development. KCQIC received 501c3 non profit status in 2005. KCQIC membership includes stakeholders who share the same goal of quality health. For information including meeting dates and times contact Cathy Davis PhD (cdavis20@ford.com) or call (816) 453-4424.

KCQIC was formed to build a forum for health practitioners to

• Encourage an opportunity for Best Practice and community health status improvement
• Participate in creating a process for broadly inclusive best practice implementation

Goals

• Improve patient outcomes and health status
• Foster health care based on best practices
• Ease the process of best practice based performance for all involved
• Provide collaborative development and implementation of guidelines and measures

KCQIC Process

· Convening a widely representative group that promotes and measures - medical societies, health plans, major provider groups, QI staff of hospitals, etc.

· Producing consensus on goals, process, structure, administrative support

· Selecting / prioritizing a small number of guidelines to initiate the process

· Ensuring that Guidelines are consistent in content, contain varied applications, identify common elements, focus on areas of agreement

· Providing an emphasis on practical / useful material and practical application vs. full detail/specialty versions

· Focusing on existing materials at provider groups and plans - versus primary literature review

· Executing a unified notice and distribution

· Assuring that interventions to enhance performance will remain at the discretion of provider groups, plans, etc