STUDY OBJECTIVES Although the interest in and promulgation of clinical practice guidelines have significantly increased in the past 2 decades, concern exists about their actual implementation. This article focuses on one strategy to encourage guideline implementation at the clinician level: clinician education. The objectives of the article are to review educational strategies, to consider them...

PURPOSE The study evaluates how providers give patient education materials and identifies improvements to comply with Meaningful Use (MU) requirements. METHODS Thirty-eight patient-provider interactions in two health care outpatient clinics were observed. RESULTS Providers do not uniformly know MU patient education requirements. Providers have individual preferences and find gaps in what is...

Dear Editor: Medical education is associated with significant costs [1]. Those who are responsible for the delivery of medical education must continually make decisions that have financial consequences [2]. Sometimes decisions are to invest in a new product or service, sometimes to disinvest. Sometimes decisions involve the educator realising that they should switch from one provider of medical...