Article: Commentary--improving diabetes care by combating clinical inertia.

Article: A cluster randomized trial to improve adherence to evidence-based ...
Implementation Science;  October 6, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... based guidelines and to reduce 'clinical inertia' in primary care physicians [21, 22, 23]. Clinical inertia is defined as a lack of treatment ... Institute of Medicine [25, 26]. Clinical inertia increases the likelihood of adverse ...

Article: Developing a quality measure for clinical inertia ...
Health Services Research;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Snyder 2000). Recently, the term clinical inertia has been proposed to define the phenomenon ... care by identifying and minimizing clinical inertia may then have a significant impact ... however, one must be able to measure clinical inertia. Two measures of clinical ...

Article: 'Clinical inertia' contributes to failures of ...
Family Practice News;  February 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... management of diabetes is compromised by "clinical inertia" in responding to a patient's elevated ... the literature as the phenomenon of clinical inertia--when the physician recognizes ... physicians, he said. The phenomenon of clinical inertia has been described in the context ...

Article: Clinical inertia can compromise care of diabetic ...
Internal Medicine News;  February 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... management of diabetes is compromised by "clinical inertia" in responding to high hemoglobin ... Toronto. This has been described as "clinical inertia--when the physician recognizes ... patients seeing primary care physicians. Clinical inertia has been described with other conditions ...

Article: 'Clinical inertia' a common problem.(RX/Diabetes ...
Chain Drug Review;  June 30, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... not receive attention, something that has been termed "clinical inertia" has taken over, say the University of Michigan Health ... keep getting worse. The study examines possible causes of clinical inertia and finds little evidence supporting the idea that providers ...

Article: 'Clinical inertia' hampers diabetes ...
Internal Medicine News;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...WASHINGTON -- "Clinical inertia" is a common, chronic condition among U.S. physicians ... scientific sessions of the American Diabetes Association. "Clinical inertia" is defined as the "lack of physician/provider action ...

Article: Strategies to reduce clinical inertia in ...
BMC Nephrology;  July 27, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... The literature describes the phenomena of clinical inertia when physicians fail to initiate or intensify ... warranted [6, 7]. There is a growing literature on clinical inertia and hypertension in the general population but ...