Lumetra Insights
April 2009
Lumetra delivers high-quality, evidence-based methodology, tools, skills, and insights to help design projects, analyze data, evaluate results, and promote quality improvement in healthcare. A national leader in developing, implementing, and managing comprehensive education and training programs that result in measurable improvements in healthcare quality, Lumetra uses evidence-based guidelines, best practices, collaborative approaches, and rigorous statistical methods to help our customers advance their professional excellence, accelerate system-wide improvements, increase quality outcomes, and promote culturally responsive care. We assist healthcare providers in realizing their vision of improving the quality, safety, equality, and efficiency of patient care across multiple clinical settings.
Lumetra is committed to using and providing evidence-based interventions to guide our quality improvement, patient safety, and care coordination efforts. Lumetra’s strategies rely on the promotion of evidence-based interventions and program evaluation approaches, development of relevant intervention tools and resources, and a foundation of strong partnerships with key stakeholders.
Using evidence-based design is a five-step process:
- Understand. Receive question from a clinical case
- Research. Research the medical literature for the evidence-base
- Appraise. Critically appraise the findings for validity and applicability
- Apply. Apply the evidence to the clinical practice. Document evidence summary. Develop business case scenarios.
- Evaluate. Evaluate the performance of the evidence-based guidelines
Benefits to the Customer
For more information about Lumetra’s Evidence-Based Design capabilities, contact our Scientific Analysis department at (415) 677-2017.

