Accredited Program Highlights

Primary Cares: A Performance Improvement Activity Designed to Improve the Diagnosis and Management of COPD and Asthma

Take an active role in raising the level of quality care for your patients by learning to differentiate and diagnose asthma and COPD.

Accredited Program Highlights

Managing Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy: A PI-CME/CE Activity

This Performance Improvement (PI) activity will allow participants to access a variety of learning formats and tools to assess and improve those involved in the care of diabetic patients presenting with chronic pain or sensory limitations associated with diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) distal to the knee.

Improving Primary Care Management of Joint Pain through a PI/QI-CME Approach

Gary C. Bird, PhD, Janine Scotti, MBA, Rick Kennison, DPM, MBA, CCMEP

As the population ages, the number of patients reporting a complaint of joint pain is set to expand rapidly, greatly increasing the burden on the healthcare system in the United States. At present, however, the first line of patient
contact—primary care—is ill-equipped to deal with this growing crisis. In this article we report the results of a 6-month, site-based combined Performance/Quality Improvement (PI/QI) and continuing medical education (CME) activity designed to demonstrate improved healthcare provider performance at the primary care level.