Search results for "Patient Safety"
Use caution with colchicine's many drug interactions
A coauthor of “The Top 100 Drug Interactions” offers advice for improved management of colchicine.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2023/09/use-caution-with-colchicines-many-drug-interactions.htm
1 Sep 2023
Newly revised ACP Advance curriculum now available
The ACP Advance Quality Improvement (QI) curriculum provides internal medicine physicians and their teams with a series of interactive online modules to help with implementing a QI project at the practice level.
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2022/12/20/6.htm
20 Dec 2022
3 ways to improve workplace culture
Three high-yield strategies apply to health care when creating a thriving work environment.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2023/06/3-ways-to-improve-workplace-culture.htm
1 Jun 2023
Register now for ACP's 2023 National Abstract Competitions
The deadline to submit an abstract is Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, for all categories.
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2022/11/22/5.htm
22 Nov 2022
CME credits available in patient safety supplement
A supplement to the March 5 Annals of Internal Medicine, which offers 11 CME credits, focuses on a recent Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality–funded project, “Making Health Care Safer II: An Updated Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices.”
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2013/03/05/7.htm
5 Mar 2013
Prepare for next pandemic by training leaders
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the prospect of others, public health and medical groups are developing training initiatives to increase the numbers of infectious disease and public health specialists across the country.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2023/03/prepare-for-next-pandemic-by-training-leaders.htm
1 Mar 2023
ACP, New York chapter to collaborate to improve patient safety
ACP announced collaboration this month with the New York ACP chapter to extend New York's medical Near Miss Registry into a national patient safety reporting and professional educational program.
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2012/06/26/9.htm
26 Jun 2012
Latest updates on ACP's priorities, initiatives
ACP Spotlight offers readers a look at ACP's current top priorities and initiatives, as well as highlights from our e-newsletter, ACP Internist Weekly.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2023/02/latest-updates-on-acps-priorities-initiatives.htm
1 Feb 2023
ACP calls for supporting, improving long-term care services
In a recent position paper, the College recommends universal catastrophic long-term care insurance, more support for the long-term care workforce and informal caregivers, and improvements in quality monitoring, among other reforms.
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2022/07/19/2.htm
19 Jul 2022
Better care for patients with disability
Physicians report lacking knowledge about their legal responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and may not be confident about their ability to provide the same quality of care to patients with disability as they do to those without it.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2022/06/better-care-for-patients-with-disability.htm
1 Jun 2022