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Board Certification Does Is Not Associated with Quality
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| gospa68@aol.com 2005-03-19, 6:22 pm |
| >From the New York Times, February 11, 2005...
"'The boards are extremely powerful,' said Dr. Richard Kravitz, the
director of the university of California, Davis Center for Health
Services Research in Primary Care.
While board certification does help to establish standards among the
nation's doctors, it is not necessarily a good measure of whether any
particular surgeons is skilled, according to Dr. Kravitz, who said that
there was little conclusive evidence that certified doctors have better
results than those who are not. 'Board Certification per se hasn't been
associated with any measure of quality,' he said."
So, with this in mind, one can only imagine the insignificance of the
certification provided by the CRSQA, which lacks the depth and power of
a surgical certification board.
WK
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| Glenn - USAEyes.org 2005-03-19, 6:22 pm |
| The American Board of Ophthalmology (ABO) is a system that verifies a
doctor has learned a certain set of skills and knowledge. Refractive
surgery skills are not directly evaluated. Patient outcomes are not
evaluated. ABO certification does not determine if the doctor has the
ability to perform a particular task, it only determines that the
doctor has the knowledge of how to perform a particular task.
The Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance (CRSQA) evaluates
actual patient outcomes. Frankly, we are much more interested if the
doctor has the demonstrated skill to perform a particular task than if
the doctor has the knowledge and may or may not have the skill.
Another significant difference between ABO and CRSQA certification is
frequency of review. If the doctor was certified before 1995,
certification is for life. If certified after 1995, certification is
for 10 years. CRSQA certification is reevaluated every three months.
The ABO and CRSQA are different in what they evaluate and thereby the
certifications hold different value. If you want to know if a doctor
learned what was taught, perhaps decades ago, seek an ABO certified
doctor. If you want to know the doctor can perform refractive surgery
today at or above the current norms, seek a CRSQA Certified Refractive
Surgeon.
Glenn Hagele
Executive Director
Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance
Email to glenn dot hagele at usaeyes dot org
http://www.USAEyes.org
http://www.ComplicatedEyes.org
I am not a doctor.
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