Professional Practice Committee

Professional Practice Committee.

The Professional Practice Committee (PPC) of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) is responsible for the “Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes” position statement, referred to as the “Standards of Care.” The PPC is a multidisciplinary expert committee comprised of physicians, diabetes educators, registered dietitians, and others who have expertise in a range of areas, including adult and pe...

Professional Practice Committee for the 2013 Clinical Practice Recommendations

AAPOS Professional Education Committee

Professional Practice

APPAM members do a lot of what might be called “applied social science research.” They use scientific methods to describe problems of concern to public policy, to explore their causes, and to estimate the effects of existing policies. This laudable commitment to empiricism, however, often inhibits analysts from taking the next step that is logically required of policy thinking: asking “What if....

Clinical Practice Gynaecology Committee

Objective: To identify the indications for hysterectomy, preoperative assessment, and available alternatives required prior to hysterectomy. Patient self-reported outcomes of hysterectomy have revealed high levels of patient satisfaction.These may be maximized by careful preoperative assessment and discussion of other treatment choices. In most cases hysterectomy is performed to relieve symptom...