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ABSTRACT: Improving Resident Engagement in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Initiatives at the Bedside The Advocate for Clinical Education (ACE)

Quality improvement (QI) and patient safety (PS) are essential competencies in residency training; however, the most effective means to engage physicians remains unclear. The authors surveyed all medicine and surgery physicians at their institution to describe QI/PS practices and concurrently implemented the Advocate for Clinical Education (ACE) program to determine

ABSTRACT: Integrating Quality Improvement Into Continuing Medical Education Activities Within a Community Hospital System

The integration of the Mercy Health System’s quality improvement (QI) and continuing medical educational (CME) activities is described. With the implementation of computerized medical data, the opportunities for QI-focused CME are growing. The authors reviewed their regularly scheduled series and special CME programs to assess their impact on quality care

ABSTRACT: Delivering Influenza Vaccine to High-Risk Adults Subspecialty Physician Practices

Influenza is responsible for significant morbidity and mortality in the United States. Despite long-standing national recommendations, only 47% of adults with a high-risk condition received the influenza vaccine in 2009-2010. Subspecialty practices provide a significant portion of ambulatory care visits for high-risk adults and understanding their role in the immunization

ABSTRACT: Teaching Quality Essentials The Effectiveness of a Team-Based Quality Improvement Curriculum in a Tertiary Health Care Institution

A unique quality improvement (QI) curriculum was implemented within the Division of General Internal Medicine to improve QI knowledge through multidisciplinary, team-based education, which also met the QI requirement for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) and the Mayo Quality Fellows program. Participants completed up

ABSTRACT: Impacts of Organizational Context on Quality Improvement

Abstract Variation in how hospitals perform on similar quality improvement (QI) efforts argues for a need to understand how different organizational characteristics affect QI performance. The objective of this study was to use data-mining methods to evaluate relationships between measures of organizational characteristics and hospital QI performance. Organizational characteristics were extracted

ABSTRACT: Data-Driven Interdisciplinary Interventions to Improve Inpatient Pain Management

Abstract Pain during hospitalization and dissatisfaction with pain management are common. This project consisted of 4 phases: identifying a pain numeric rating scale (NRS) metric associated with patient satisfaction, identifying independent predictors of maximum NRS, implementing interventions, and evaluating trends in NRS and satisfaction. Maximum NRS was inversely associated with favorable

ABSTRACT: Psychiatrists’ use of electronic communication and social media and a proposed framework for future guidelines

Abstract Background. Recent and ongoing advances in information technology present opportunities and challenges in the practice of medicine. Among all medical subspecialties, psychiatry is uniquely suited to help guide the medical profession's response to the ethical, legal, and therapeutic challenges-especially with respect to boundaries-posed by the rapid proliferation of social media

Featured Article: New CME Architecture Aims to Enable Better Learning

By Sue Pelletier | MeetingsNet “There’s an assumption that CME providers tend to make—we have all made it—that learners know what to do with the information they gather during continuing medical education activities, that learners know how to learn efficiently,” says Medical Meetings columnist, research scientist, and educational technologist Brian S. McGowan, PhD. “While

MANUSCRIPT: Diagnosis and Management of Lung Cancer, 3rd edition

Diagnosis and Management of Lung Cancer, 3rd edition: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines includes: More than 275 recommendations for the diagnosis, treatment, and management of patients with lung cancer, covering the full spectrum of care from initial evaluation to palliative and end-of-life care. Additional recommendations for screening, chemoprevention,

ABSTRACT: A Global Model for Effective Use and Evaluation of e-Learning in Health

Healthcare systems worldwide face a wide range of challenges, including demographic change, rising drug and medical technology costs, and persistent and widening health inequalities both within and between countries. Simultaneously, issues such as professional silos, static medical curricula, and perceptions of “information overload” have made it difficult for medical training