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| 1. |  AAP's Safer Health Care for Kids (2009)
American Academy of Pediatrics
The Safer Health Care for Kids program is designed for physicians, allied health professionals, administrators, parents, and caregivers and features a new Web-based resource center for pediatric patient safety information and strategies. |
| 5. | EQIPP Can Help Ensure Quality Care for Your Patients (2009)
American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is committed to educating and assisting pediatricians to ensure that they provide quality care to thier patients and are consistenlty improving the care that they provide. One tool developed by the AAP to assist physicians in achieving these goals is eQIPP, a unique online learning program that teaches the principles and concepts of quality improvement in health care. |
| 7. | Online CME (2008)
Andy Spooner, MD, FAAP
This article features an overview of the basic models of Web-based continuing medical education (CME) and a listing of online CME opportunities.
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| 8. | Quality Improvement Innovation Network (2008)
American Academy of Pediatrics
The Quality Improvement Innovation Network (QuIIN) is a network of practicing pediatricians and their staff who are committed to testing tools, measures, and strategies using quality improvement methods to improve care for children. Visit this webpage for information on how to join QuIIN, participate in a QuIIN project, or propose a project to QuIIN. |
| 9. | Steering Committee on Quality Improvement Management (SCOQIM) (2009)
American Academy of Pediatrics
The Steering Committee on Quality Improvement and Management (SCOQIM) was established in 2001 in response to the increasing national emphasis on quality in health care and the AAP identification of QI as a top priority. SCOQIM offers a more integrated voice for quality and enables the AAP to best support its members in providing the highest quality clinical care for children.
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| 10. | Quality Improvement Innovation Network (QuIIN) Quality Improvement Conference Call Series (2009)
American Academy of Pediatrics
Practical tools and strategies are necessary components to assist pediatricians in making changes in practice. The Quality Improvement Innovation Network (QuIIN) Quality Improvement Conference Call Series for Network Members offers learning opportunities to practicing pediatricians and their staff by providing working examples of improvement efforts, the quality improvement tools available, and demonstrations of why and how these tools can be used to improve health care and outcomes for children and their families. Conference calls are provided as a benefit of QuIIN membership. This page provides links to hear recorded calls or view handouts from the 2009 series, which includes "Communicating With Parents About Risks of ADHD Medicine Abuse: Experiences and QuIIN Project Results," "Implementing High Quality Telephone Care in Pediatric Practice," and "Bright Futures: The Teenage Years". |
| 11. | 2008 Quality Improvement Innovation Network Quality Improvement Conference Call Series (2008)
American Academy of Pediatrics
Practical tools and strategies are necessary components to assist pediatricians in making changes in practice. The Quality Improvement Innovation Network (QuIIN) Quality Improvement Conference Call Series for Network Members offers learning opportunities to practicing pediatricians and their staff by providing working examples of improvement efforts, the quality improvement tools available, and demonstrations of why and how these tools can be used to improve health care and outcomes for children and their families. Conference calls are provided as a benefit of QuIIN membership. This page provides links to hear recorded calls or view handouts from the 2008 series. |
| 12. | AAP Working to Ensure Pediatricians are Competent in Six Areas (2008)
AAP Committee on Continuing Medical Education
The Academy is committed to ensuring pediatricians are competent in the six areas through its CME program. This article provides an overview of the 'six-pack' (patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, and systems-based practice).
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| 13. | CME Accreditation Aimed to Improved Patient Care (2008)
Julie Sohlberg and Beverly Wood, MD
The ACCME is focused on a system of learning and learning design directed at improved practice of medicine and improved healthcare. For this reason, CME must be designed to address the needs of physicians and their recognized gaps in knowledge, competence, performance, and change in health outcomes of patients. |
| 14. | Quality Improvement Innovation Network Call for New Members (2008)
American Academy of Pediatrics
Quality Improvement Innovation Network (QuIIN) is a network of pediatricians and their staff teams that uses quality improvement methods to test tools, interventions and strategies in order to improve healthcare and outcomes for children and their families. QuIIN serves as a practical working lab for pediatricians to test how improvements can be implemented in practice, the child's medical home. Currently, there is a call for new members.
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| 15. | Quality Improvement Innovation Network Conference Call Series (2007)
Quality Improvement Innovation Network, a Program of the American Academy of Pediatrics
The Quality Improvement Innovation Network (QuIIN) holds regular conference calls on quality improvement issues. Materials from these calls, including MP3 recordings of the call, are now available and downloadable. |
| 18. | Oral Health Risk Assessment Training (2008)
American Academy of Pediatrics
The purpose of this training is to provide a concise overview of how to perform an oral examination and conduct an oral health risk assessment and triage for infants and young children.
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| 19. | Safe and Healthy Beginnings: A Resource Toolkit for Hospitals and Physicians' Offices (2008)
American Academy of Pediatrics
Safe & Healthy Beginnings: A Resource Toolkit for Hospitals and Physicians' Offices was developed as part of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Safe and Healthy Beginnings program. This article provides resources to assist with the assessment of a newborn's risk for severe hyperbilirubinemia, support for breastfeeding mothers, and coordination of care between the newborn nursery and primary care practice. |
| 20. | Testing Perinatal Care Strategies: Safe and Healthy Beginnings (2008)
Lori O''Keefe, Correspondent
Preliminary results from the midway point of the inaugural project of the Academy's new quality improvement initiative are encouraging, showing significant increases in the use of methods in the newborn nursery and primary care settings to provide care consistent with AAP recommendations. This project tested improving assessment of a newborn's risk for severe hyperbilirubinemia, support for breastfeeding and coordination of care from the newborn nursery to the primary care practice setting. A summary is provided.
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