Search results for "Quality improvement"
ACP Immunization Portal now available
ACP has launched the ACP Immunization Portal, a Web-based guide to adult immunization designed to help health care professionals develop a systematic process to incorporating immunization procedures into their day-to-day practice.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/09/13/11.htm
13 Sep 2011
Suggest a colleague as a Top Hospitalist
ACP's Steven Weinberger, FACP, blogs at KevinMDInternists elected at AMA House of Delegates meetingNew clinical information section launches on College website
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/06/29/12.htm
29 Jun 2010
ACGME approves final duty hour and supervision standards
MKSAP Quiz: progressive, dull, epigastric pain
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/10/05/2.htm
5 Oct 2010
Building the medical home starts in school
Four medical schools revamped their residency programs to include concepts of the patient-centered medical home. The changes resulted in teamwork, continuity of care, and more intense clinical rotations.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/11/PCMH.htm
1 Nov 2011
ACP and AAIM release updated version of High Value Care Curriculum
ACP and the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) have released a new version of their High Value Care Curriculum, a jointly developed instructional program to train resident physicians to be good stewards of limited health care resources.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2013/09/24/7.htm
24 Sep 2013
Hospitals vary widely in adhering to aspirin guidelines
There was a 25-fold variation in the proportion of U.S. hospitals that adhered to guidelines about prescribing high-dose aspirin at discharge, with some hospitals discharging fewer than 10% of patients on high-dose aspirin and other hospitals discharging 100% of patients on the regimen, a study found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2014/08/19/5.htm
19 Aug 2014
PQRI overhaul finds faults and inputs fixes for 2009
A chief medical officer with Medicare explains how the agency listened to doctors to improve and made easier a program that promises more reimbursement for the care you're already delivering to your patients.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/05/cms.htm
1 May 2009
Signs of progress for MOC, but more work needed
The past year's worth of advocacy to improve the Maintenance of Certification process has succeeded, in part, but the issue will remain in front of ACP leadership in coming years.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/04/presidents.htm
1 Apr 2016
When trials are cut short, who benefits?
Does speeding a potentially effective drug to market benefit patients, or does it benefit drug companies? Internists are left to decide.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/01/trials.htm
1 Jan 2009
Fall prevention and urinary incontinence care improved by intervention
Updated guidelines suggest caution with chemo-induced anemia
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/11/02/5.htm
2 Nov 2010