Performance improvement CME: managing schizophrenia.

Performance improvement CME: managing chronic pain.

Performance Improvement CME (PI CME) is an educational activity in which clinicians retrospectively assess their current clinical practice, choose areas for improvement and implement interventions based on treatment guidelines and health care standards, and then re-evaluate their clinical practice to assess the improvements made. This PI CME activity focuses on improving the safety and efficacy...

Learning to collaborate: a case study of performance improvement CME.

INTRODUCTION Performance Improvement Continuing Medical Education (PI CME) is a mechanism for joining quality improvement (QI) in health care to continuing medical education (CME) systems together. Although QI practices and CME approaches have been recognized for years, what emerges from their integration is largely unfamiliar, because it requires the collaboration of CME providers and stakehol...

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (CME): A BASIS FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES

According to the modern management, quality is defined from the view of customers. In health services, quality improvement requires appropriate measures to increase responsiveness and accountability of health system to increasing demands of the community. Regarding the ever-changing nature of health services protocols, there is no way but development and improvement of a CME system to make hea...

Effect of a performance improvement CME activity on management of patients with diabetes.

INTRODUCTION Primary care in the United States faces unprecedented challenges from an aging population and the accompanying prevalence of chronic disease. In response, continuing medical education (CME) initiatives have begun to adopt the principles of performance improvement (PI) into their design, although currently there is a dearth of evidence from national initiatives supporting the effect...

Performance Improvement CME and Self-Assessment: A Practical Introduction