Background: To create meaningful quality improvement (QI) curricula for graduate medical education (GME) trainees, institutions strive to improve coordination of QI curricula with hospital improvement infrastructure.
Objective: We created a curriculum to teach residents about QI and value-based medicine (VBM) and assessed curricular effectiveness.
Methods: We designed a 2-week required curriculum for internal medicine residents at a large academic program.
Compliance with cardiac performance measures for guideline-directed medical therapy remains suboptimal. There is a compelling need to identify modifiable factors that influence compliance rates, so that these factors can be addressed as targets of quality improvement. This study examines the relationship between cardiovascular provider experience and compliance with performance measures for outpatients with coronary artery disease (CAD), heart failure, and atrial fibrillation in the PINNACLE Registry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Womens Health (Larchmt)
July 2018
Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is the leading cause of death and disability among women in the United States. Identifying IHD in women presenting with stable symptoms and stratifying their risk for an IHD event can be challenging for providers, with several different tests available. This article is meant to serve as a practical guide for clinicians treating women with potentially ischemic symptoms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Although injection drug use (IDU) and blood transfusions prior to 1992 are well-accepted risk factors for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, many studies that evaluated tattooing as a risk factor for HCV infection did not control for a history of IDU or transfusion prior to 1992. In this large, multicenter, case-control study, we analyzed demographic and HCV risk factor exposure history data from 3,871 patients, including 1,930 with chronic HCV infection (HCV RNA-positive) and 1,941 HCV-negative (HCV antibody-negative) controls. Crude and fully adjusted odds ratios (ORs) of tattoo exposure by multivariate logistic regression in HCV-infected versus controls were determined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Poor quality and variability of medication labeling have been cited as key contributors to medication misuse. We assessed the format and content of labels and materials packaged with common pediatric liquid nonprescription medications.
Methods: Descriptive study.