CME credits available in patient safety supplement
A supplement to the March 5 Annals of Internal Medicine, which offers 11 CME credits, focuses on a recent Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality–funded project, “Making Health Care Safer II: An Updated Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices.”
A supplement to the March 5 Annals of Internal Medicine, which offers 11 CME credits, focuses on a recent Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality–funded project, “Making Health Care Safer II: An Updated Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices.”
The project leaders identified 41 patient safety strategies and conducted reviews of many of them. Ten of the reviews are included in the Annals supplement:
- Promoting a Culture of Safety as a Patient Safety Strategy
- In-Facility Delirium Prevention Programs as a Patient Safety Strategy
- Patient Safety Strategies Targeted at Diagnostic Errors
- Inpatient Fall Prevention Programs as a Patient Safety Strategy
- Medication Reconciliation During Transitions of Care as a Patient Safety Strategy
- Nurse–Patient Ratios as a Patient Safety Strategy
- Preventing In-Facility Pressure Ulcers as a Patient Safety Strategy
- Rapid-Response Systems as a Patient Safety Strategy
- Simulation Exercises as a Patient Safety Strategy
- Hospital-Initiated Transitional Care Interventions as a Patient Safety Strategy
Each review has an accompanying CME quiz, and by completing these quizzes, physicians can earn 11 CME credits that meet professional responsibility and risk management requirements.
In addition, the March 5 issue includes Annals' first article in “graphic novel” format, which also deals with a patient safety issue, a missed diagnosis that haunts a physician throughout his professional life.