Partnering With Patients in a Quality Improvement Curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents.

Patient experience is a core component of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Triple Aim for health care improvement. Although resident physicians must meet quality improvement (QI) competencies prior to graduation, QI training during residency may not adequately prepare residents to improve patient and family experience. We describe an active learning QI curriculum engaging 3 Patient and Family Advisors as partners alongside 15 resident physicians.

An Active-Learning Quality Improvement Curriculum for Faculty in Hospital Medicine.

Introduction: Despite the growing importance of quality improvement (QI) training in medical education, there is a lack of faculty with expertise in QI at many academic medical centers. In this report, we describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of a QI training program for faculty in hospital medicine at an academic medical center aimed at increasing faculty capacity in QI.

Methods: With input from an initial focus group of hospital medicine faculty, we developed a 12-session, active-learning curriculum incorporating core concepts in QI applied to a real-life QI problem.

Improving Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Hospitalized Adults: A Quality Initiative.

The American Diabetes Association recommends scheduled basal and nutritional insulin doses as the preferred treatment for noncritically ill hospitalized patients with type 2 diabetes; however, the adoption of these practices remains suboptimal. We sought to understand current diabetes management practices and improve glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes on the Hospital Medicine Services at our academic medical center. We surveyed resident and attending physicians to understand barriers to guideline-based practice.

Antimicrobial and antinematicidal metabolites from strain SA4 against selected pathogenic bacteria, fungi and nematode.

The exploration of novel therapeutic agents and other bioactive secondary metabolite from species, for possible agricultural farming, pharmaceutical and industrialized applications, has been, and still is, essential. The existing studies were aimed with biologically potential species and its antagonistic activity against dreadful microorganisms. Totally, morphological three different actinomycetes were selected from the fertile agricultural lands.

Leading From Darkness to Light: Understanding Chronic Disease and Coronavirus: An Integrative Perspective.

Disease is defined as complex interaction of 3 things: disease-causing agent, host and environment. The government, CDC and hospital administrations have had reasonable success with the effects of social distancing and coronavirus testing; kudos to them. That addresses 1 of the 3 main factors of a disease; i.