Search results for "High-value care"
Physicians often omit harms when discussing lung cancer screening, study finds
In one study, while physicians universally recommended lung cancer screening, discussion of harms was essentially absent, and none of the patient encounters met the minimum skill criteria for eight of 12 shared decision-making behaviors.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2018/08/21/1.htm
21 Aug 2018
ACP staff, leadership, members recognized with AAIM awards
ACP is pleased to announce that a number of ACP staff, leaders, and members have received awards from the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM).
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2017/03/21/5.htm
21 Mar 2017
Workplace wellness program requirements should reflect high-value recommendations
Yul Ejnes, MD, MACP, continues his monthly column at KevinMD.com in a post about the rationale of workplace wellness programs.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2017/02/14/5.htm
14 Feb 2017
Article cites ACP and other groups for efforts to promote high-value care
According to an article published in the July 16 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), professional organizations like ACP are the groups best positioned to engage physicians in qualitative efforts to improve the value of health care.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2014/07/22/7.htm
22 Jul 2014
Details debated in breast screening
Amid a thicket of competing and sometimes conflicting studies about breast cancer screening, medical groups have adopted differing stances on how to address the conundrum of harms versus benefits.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/03/breast-screening.htm
1 Mar 2017
Textbook edition reflects evolution of hospital medicine
The first update of “Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine” exemplifies how hospital medicine has evolved and the skills that hospitalists need to have.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/02/textbook.htm
1 Feb 2017
Dr. Steven Weinberger receives AMA Lifetime Achievement Award
The award honors a medical association executive who has contributed substantially to the goals and ideals of the medical profession.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2016/11/22/4.htm
22 Nov 2016
ACP collaborates on study examining wasteful spending, overuse of health care services
The study will assess trends in potential overuse of bone density scans, cancer antigen 125 blood tests, and electrocardiography.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2016/04/26/6.htm
26 Apr 2016
ACP launches new “Online High Value Care Cases”
A series of free online cases and questions addressing high-value care is available to help clinicians weigh the benefits, harms, and costs of tests and treatment options for common conditions in order to improve health and eliminate waste.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2014/01/07/10.htm
7 Jan 2014
ACP and AAIM release updated version of High Value Care Curriculum
ACP and the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) have released a new version of their High Value Care Curriculum, a jointly developed instructional program to train resident physicians to be good stewards of limited health care resources.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2013/09/24/7.htm
24 Sep 2013