Search results for "Success Story"
Custom comic strip helps residents hand off patients
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2015/10/success.htm. The handoff to a new doctor is a risky time for patients, who may not return for care or see the right resident.
October 2015
Cholesterol management becomes more complicated
Our Success Story looks at an ACP-led quality improvement project in Kentucky that helped 8 practices see significant improvements in screening for clinical depression, assessing and managing chronic pain, and ... Finally, this issue features the 10th
November 2015
When is it sleep apnea?
Our story looks at reasons for patients' nonadherence to hypertension treatment and how multifactorial interventions can help. ... In addition, our Success Story focuses on one such intervention that uses technology to involve hypertensive patients more
March 2015
QI project helps raise vaccination rates
With patients likely to decline all vaccinations, of any kind, due mainly to concerns about safety or adverse effects, physicians opted to work with ACP's “I Raise the Rates” initiative as a quality improvement project.
February 2018
An individual effort to smooth transitions
A multicomponent intervention to smooth hospital discharges back into primary care involved a personal visit to every hospitalized patient.
September 2017
Meeting baby boomers' high expectations
Our story explains how to manage myalgia in statin-treated patients by pinpointing the cause and then adjusting therapy accordingly. ... A Success Story details a novel model that uses principles of chronic disease management to help improve rates of
July 2012
How to say no
In our cover story, Charlotte Huff looks at how doctors can consider testing and treatment requests and refuse those that are inappropriate without harming the doctor-patient relationship. ... For details on a group visit approach to managing
March 2011
Detecting depression just as important in the elderly
or caregivers to interact with them.” (For more on one intervention to combat loneliness in those homebound during COVID-19, read the Success Story in this issue.).
February 2022
Influencing the details of health reform so internists get paid
The remarkable PCIP success story shows why ACP can't just pay attention to the forest, but also must nurture and protect the trees of health reform to the benefit of
January 2011
Latest updates on ACP's priorities, initiatives
Top Story—Feature article or Q&A with a hospital medicine expert. Rotating Feature—Newman's Notions, Success Story, Brief Case, or FDA Update.
March 2022