We gratefully acknowledge the invaluable contributions of our faculty content developers, Kevin Hill, MD, Michael Hsu, MD, Saeed Ahmed, MD, and Michael Goedde, MD, in crafting this educational material.
Target Audience: This activity is designed to improve the competence, performance, and patient outcomes of physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners and other health care professionals. Learners will determine individual practice gaps and address them through a performance improvement plan. Learners will assess and evaluate performance techniques used in their practices.
Our goal: The overall objective of this activity is to guide you through the process of self-evaluation using evidence-based clinical quality measures. Once practices are implemented as an everyday clinical function, it is expected that you will have achieved performance change in your practice setting.
Educational objectives of this activity: At the conclusion of this activity, clinicians will be able to:
Core Competencies as a result of participating in this continuing education activity:
The stages of this PIP activity: This PIP activity follows the AMA-standardized three-stage process of a PI CME that includes:
A minimum of 1 month must pass from the beginning to the final stage, but it is likely (and recommended) that the process will take 3-6 months.
***This activity is a Performance Improvement CME (PI CME). It is an activity intended to guide a participant through a series of steps to gauge practice change over time based on clinical measures provided throughout Stages A, B, and C. During Stage B, learners implement interventions to improve performance related to these measures over a useful interval of time (see AMA).
Stage A: Data Collection: Assess your practice behaviors.
Stage B: Application and Intervention: Develop and follow your own improvement plan.
Stage C: Reassessment and Review: Reassess your practice to measure the effects of your improvement plan (post intervention measurement).