HNS Best Practices
As a clinically integrated physician network, we strive to improve quality of care, treatment outcomes, and the delivery of cost-efficient healthcare. To achieve these goals, in part, HNS has and continues to develop “best practices”.
The term “Best Practice” is somewhat ambiguous but is often used to indicate what institutions, and well-regarded practitioners are doing. In short, a best practice is a method or practice that conventional wisdom suggests, is effective and will reliably lead to desired and/or improved outcomes.
The creation of these best practices was under the purview of the 2019-2021 HNS Professional Affairs Advisory Board (PAAB). The PAABs are comprised of more than seventy chiropractic physicians practicing in North and South Carolina. The PAABs are charged with identifying previously published clinical guidelines for inclusion in these best practices and for recommending additional clinical guidelines that, based on clinical experience, are likely to improve treatment outcomes while ensuring clinical autonomy.
While many of these best practices are evidence-based, in areas where there is disagreement between the evidence-based guideline and the opinion of the physicians serving on the PAABs, the opinion of the PAAB is duly noted.