Topic closed for new registrants. If you have already registered, please log in at the top right of this page to continue. Description: Depression is one of the most common chronic conditions seen in the primary care setting, with nearly 17% of adults meeting criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) during their lifetime and nearly 7% experiencing MDD during an average 12-month period. Participate to discover practical methods for optimizing the care of your patients with clinical depression. Topics include improving screening strategies, designing effective therapy regimens, ensuring appropriate follow-up after treatment initiation, and assessing treatment adherence.
Faculty: Michael Thase, MD
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Developed in collaboration with the National Committee for Quality Assurance(NCQA), this complimentary, American Medical Association (AMA)-standardized performance improvement (PI) CME initiative is designed to help you assess and improve your management of patients with clinical depression.
Why Participate in PI CME?
Earn up to 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) has reviewed Performance Improvement Strategies in Clinical Depression and has approved it as a Performance in Practice (PIP) and CME program—part of the overall ABPN Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.
Use your data from this PI CME activity to complete ABIM's Completed Project PIM and earn credit for ABIM Maintenance of Certification
Integrate nationally recognized quality measures for your patients with clinical depression
Improve your practice performance and optimize patient outcomes
PI CME has been recognized as an important component of continuing professional development
Accreditation: This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.
Acknowledgment of Commercial Support: This activity is supported by an educational grant from Lilly USA, LLC.
For further information concerning Lilly grant funding visit www.lillygrantoffice.com.
This activity is sponsored by Med-IQ and developed in collaboration with the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
Med-IQ delivers education that brings measurable change in healthcare professional competency with the goal of improving performance and patient outcomes.
The percentage ranges in the color-coded key were developed based on goals for meeting guideline recommendations and national standardized performance measures as well as historical data from clinicians participating in past PI CME activities. The ranges are provided to allow you to better assess your performance and to set personal goals for improvement, if needed. Undesignated questions refer to patient results that are not performance measures.
The “Five Whys” is an effective tool for brainstorming with your team to understand the factors contributing to your current performance. Working with your care team:
1. Agree on a statement of the problem you want to address and write it down.
2. Ask yourselves “why” the problem occurs, and write down your answer.
3. Ask yourselves “why” the “answer” occurs, and write down your answer to that question.
4. Repeat this process until you have asked “why” five times.
5. Consider the set of answers you have written and describe up to three causes of your problem.
The percentage ranges in the color-coded key were developed based on goals for meeting guideline recommendations and national standardized performance measures as well as historical data from clinicians participating in past PI CME activities. The ranges are provided to allow you to better assess your performance and to set personal goals for improvement, if needed. Undesignated questions refer to patient results that are not performance measures.
Performance improvement continuing medical education (PI CME) was developed in 2005 by two American Medical Association (AMA)-convened national task forces. It was introduced as a nationally standardized CME format to help healthcare professionals evaluate and improve their clinical processes and quality of care. PI CME has been recognized as an important component of a physician's continuing professional development and may answer multiple credentialing and reporting needs.
Staff refers to nurse, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, other healthcare staff, or non-clinical staff
Patients hospitalized for a cancer-related treatment, procedure, or complication are at elevated risk of VTE and should be considered for thromboprophylaxis. Therefore, a performance improvement goal would be to routinely select appropriate VTE prophylaxis regimens based on patient-specific factors, contraindications, and available treatment guidelines and clinical evidence. Furthermore, patients with contraindications to pharmacologic prophylaxis should be re-assessed over the course of hospitalization, as many factors precluding the use of pharmacologic strategies are transient in nature.
Clinicians should evaluate whether they are routinely following evidence-based thromboprophylaxis recommendations for patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty, total hip arthroplasty, and hip fracture surgery. In addition, an appropriate performance improvement goal would be to ensure that these high-risk patients receive VTE prophylaxis for the appropriate duration after hospital discharge.
An initial questionnaire regarding current practices. This form is to be completed as the first step in stage A and must be completed by the performance improvement participant, not a designee.
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A form that collects data for each of the patient charts selected by the performance improvement participant. A separate patient data form must be completed for each patient chart by the performance improvement participant or a designee. Data can be submitted on this Web site, via fax (toll-free) to 866 419 5789, or by mail to Med-IQ Concierge Professional, 5523 Research Park Drive, Suite 210, Baltimore, MD 21228.
A person appointed by the performance improvement participant to aid in the patient data collection process. A designee may or may not be a healthcare professional, as long as the person is familiar with medical charts and medical terminology.
An evidence- and expert consensus-based aid for selecting, monitoring, and changing disease-modifying therapies in multiple sclerosis and clinically isolated syndrome.
The percentage ranges in the color-coded key were developed based on goals for meeting guideline recommendations and national standardized performance measures as well as historical data from clinicians participating in past PI CME activities. The ranges are provided to allow you to better assess your performance and to set personal goals for improvement, if needed. Undesignated questions refer to patient results that are not performance measures.
A service provided by Med-IQ to help make participation in performance improvement initiatives as convenient as possible for healthcare professionals. Participants can reach Med-IQ's concierge professionals by phone at 866 858 7434, fax at 866 419 5789, and e-mail at concierge@med-iq.com.
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PIM indicates performance improvement measure. PIMs are derived from sources that may include nationally recognized measures (ie, National Committee for Quality Assurance [NCQA] Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set [HEDIS®] measures and other National Quality Forum [NQF]-endorsed measures), current guidelines and consensus documents, and recent evidence-based literature.
C - Congestive heart failure = 1 point HA - Aged ≥ 75 years = 1 point D - Diabetes = 1 point S - Stroke/TIA or systemic thromboembolism = 2 points
A group of healthcare professionals who work together in providing care to specific
patients (ie, staff members with whom you work with on a regular basis).
Unfortunately, this PI CME activity is not certified for your degree type. We invite you to participate in other CME resources.
Clinicians need to ensure the routine assessment of VTE risk among acutely ill medical patients and the timely administration of evidence-based thromboprophylaxis strategies. Improvement plans should focus on specific ways to improve the identification of at-risk patients upon admission and facilitate the initiation of appropriate thromboprophylaxis.
Definition: “Red flags” for back pain can include a history of trauma, fever, urinary retention, motor weakness, current infection, fracture or suspected fracture, unexplained weight loss, age ≥ 70, morning stiffness in younger patients, osteoporosis, immunosuppression, recent onset of bladder dysfunction or fecal incontinence, history of cancer, cauda equina syndrome, progressive neurologic deficit, motor vehicle accident or industrial injury with suspicion of fracture, major fall with suspicion of fracture, saddle anesthesia, etc.
Other healthcare professionals participating in this performance improvement initiative.
The percentage ranges in the color-coded key were developed based on goals for meeting guideline recommendations and national standardized performance measures as well as historical data from clinicians participating in past PI CME activities. The ranges are provided to allow you to better assess your performance and to set personal goals for improvement, if needed. Undesignated questions refer to patient results that are not performance measures.
A complimentary, certified CME publication for those participating in the performance improvement initiative; it offers targeted recommendations and practical suggestions, tips, tools, and forms that are specifically related to the measurable areas of care collected on the patient data forms.
Additional forms will be needed; once you log in, please review the MOC page for more information.
The percentage ranges in the color-coded key were developed based on goals for meeting guideline recommendations and national standardized performance measures as well as historical data from clinicians participating in past PI CME activities. The ranges are provided to allow you to better assess your performance and to set personal goals for improvement, if needed. Undesignated questions refer to patient results that are not performance measures.
Live, interactive audioconferences with expert faculty and fellow clinicians that address strategies to overcome process barriers. Participants may submit questions in advance, or they may ask questions live on the phone to receive immediate answers from faculty.
Plan developed by the performance improvement participant; the plan should be brief but describe in detail the specific strategies that the participant will implement to improve his or her practice.
