Current Upcoming Web-Based Quality Improvement Programs:
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We are currently looking for physicians to participate in the following free quality improvement programs, of which some offer free CME and/or ABIM Part 4 MOC:
Raising Achievement: What we Know vs. What we Do for Alcohol Use Disorders **Enrollment is Closing Soon, Join Now!**
The Raising Achievement project aims to utilize a web-based ACPNetSM educational intervention with a clinical approach for physicians on how to screen and counsel patients with alcohol use disorders in conjunction with depression, sleep disorders, and hypertension. Project staff will also evaluate physicians’ attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge related to screening and counseling their patients with alcohol use disorders. All internal medicine physicians who are ACP members are eligible for this study.
This project is funded through a collaborative project PRISM, which is supported by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, NIAAA and NIDA. PRISM features a collaboration of four medical societies: American College of Physicians, Society of General Internal Medicine, American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American Geriatric Society.
Pain Medications: Improving Patient Care by Changing Physician Performance
This web-based pain management study aims to help physicians learn about how to evaluate and manage patients with chronic pain and pain associated with migraine. This pre-post study will implement a web-based tool-kit that will cover quality improvement techniques and methods for practice improvement. This project offers up to 8 CME credits.
The American College of Physicians is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American College of Physicians designates this educational activity for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This project is funded by an unrestricted educational grant from Endo Pharmaceuticals.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Quality Improvement Initiative
This practice-based project aims to help physicians learn about how to diagnose, evaluate and manage patients with COPD. Using a pre-post design, the study will utilize web-based modules covering quality and practice improvement related to the diagnosis and management of COPD. Feedback reports based on data abstraction of patient data will be used to stimulate improvement strategies for clinical practice. This project offers up to 30 CME credits and credit towards ABIM Part 4 MOC.
The American College of Physicians is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American College of Physicians designates this educational activity for a maximum of 30 AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This project is funded by an unrestricted educational grant from Boehringer Ingelheim.
Ongoing Studies:
Diabetes Referral Study
ACPNetSM launched a study to explore patterns and determinants of diabetic patient referral from primary care to specialty care providers. The aim of this study is to learn about the kinds of situations that cause a physician to refer a patient with diabetes, and the kinds of situations that frustrate a physician when treating a patient with diabetes.
Prime (Practice Redesign for Improved Medical care for Elders)
RAND and ACP have joined hands in this project which aims to improve internists’ management of geriatric conditions through practice redesign. The goals of this project are the development and testing of a geriatric-focused practice-redesign and quality improvement product based on the ACOVE-2 (and now ACOVE-3) quality indicators, screening and practice tools, and the College’s ACPNetSM practice measurement and feedback process. The project utilizes a practice redesign intervention to help internists improve the medical care of two conditions commonly seen in the geriatric population – urinary incontinence and falls/mobility problems.
Upcoming Activities
ACPNetSM Depression Project
ACPNetSM Immunization Project
Performance Measures Pilot Study
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For more information, please contact pbrn@acponline.org
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