Search results for "Patient Safety"
High-value care a focus at Hospital Medicine 2017
Hospital Medicine 2017 featured advice on providing high-value care, from how to talk about the concept with patients to which tests and screens to give and which drugs to stop.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/07/high-value-care-a-focus-at-hospital-medicine-2017.htm
1 Jul 2017
Maintaining the sanity of maintenance of certification
ACP seeks ways to make maintenance of certification more educational, professionally fulfilling, and relevant to the practice of internal medicine.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/06/presidents.htm
1 Jun 2014
Millennials, the same doctors in a changed environment
Some older physicians may peg millennials as entitled, self-centered, and lazy, lacking the dogged passion for medicine of generations before them. But those who teach them say that behavioral differences among this group may have more to do with environmental and individual factors than generational ones.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/10/millennials.htm
1 Oct 2016
ACP's ‘Mission: Not Impossible’
Changes to the Maintenance of Certification process advocated by College leadership are the beginning of meaningful reform of the process, not the end.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/04/presidents.htm
1 Apr 2015
Transitional care can be effective, underused
Clinicians are figuring out ways to flag those complex patients in advance and then better support them during transitions in care.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/11/transitional-care-can-be-effective-underused.htm
1 Nov 2018
ACP Quality Connect offers diabetes webinar series
ACP Quality Connect is hosting a series of webinars from April through June 2015 to help physicians implement quality improvement strategies to improve care of their diabetic patients.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2015/03/31/6.htm
31 Mar 2015
Increasing help for physician impairment
This issue also covers new drugs for depression, conference coverage about gastroenterology, and escalating generic drug prices.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/09/increasing-help-for-physician-impairment.htm
1 Sep 2019
QI project helps raise vaccination rates
With patients likely to decline all vaccinations, of any kind, due mainly to concerns about safety or adverse effects, physicians opted to work with ACP's “I Raise the Rates” initiative as a quality improvement project.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/02/qi-project-helps-raise-vaccination-rates.htm
1 Feb 2018
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
CDC issues recommendations for prescribing opioids for chronic pain
Among 12 recommendations was the consideration that clinicians should consider opioids only if expected benefits for both pain and function outweigh risks to the patient.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2016/03/22/1.htm
22 Mar 2016