ClinicalCommittee
2009 2008 2007 2006 San Francisco Asthma Task Force
Clinical Committee Minutes
March 24, 2008
Present: Gail Herrick, Nan Madden, Gloria Thornton, Anjali Nath, Stephanie Manfre
- May 9th Asthma Network Meeting
Speakers all set- Gloria will email to confirm and ask for CV/Slides and name of talk
Anjali will order same food as before
Spirometry Breakout- Set up in AM before meeting in adjacent room. Gail, Asthma Clinic, and KP will bring spirometers. Need to confirm with Peg how the breakouts will look.
Nan and Peg will do case studies in main room. Participants can write scenarios on note cards at start of day, Peg and Nan can review and present. Participants will be asked to discuss cases that have been difficult to manage or aren’t clear cut. Cases presented can give ideas for topics for next meeting.
- Sustainability
3 Health Plans can sustain asthma network. Blue Cross State Sponsored Business or Kaiser can handle CME/CEU’s. San Francisco Health Plan/KP can pay for food. Anjali asked about future coordination of network. Breathe California will still be able to assist with volunteers to put together meeting packets. Partners (KP, BCSSB, SFHP) can cover cost of photocopying. Gloria can get intern from SFSU Health Ed 480 to work on project. MOU between partners may be useful.
Gloria announced that after 2008 UCSF will have community benefits grants- may be a possible source of funding.
In terms of staffing, committee can rotate roles and responsibilities. Other projects (i.e. requiring CME’s for doctors) may not carry on without staff or funding. Seems like a larger state policy issue. Would have to have buy-in from many organizations.
- Measuring Outcomes/Evaluation
What would we like to report on or measure for this committee? What kind of measures would we like to report to policy makers/DPH? Is there a model community we could compare San Francisco to? Gloria suggests limited stakeholder interviews of meeting participants. Gloria could interview 10 stakeholders- we could recruit at next meeting.
Report Card should be expanded to include clinical work/outcomes and be presented to the Board. One large success is the clinical committee’s work on the asthma emergency care plans. Anjali reminded committee of outcome document presented to Mitch Katz 2 years ago. Would that be useful? Anjali will email.
Lack of available clinical data makes it difficult to show our effectiveness.
Network meeting evaluations weren’t created to give reportable outcomes- though participants do use evaluation to ask for health and support within their clinics. Would be ideal to have a clinical person available for consultation.
