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BALTIMORE, MD—June 7, 2012—Med-IQ, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine CME, and Emergency Medicine Cardiac Research and Education Group (EMCREG-International) are pleased to announce that their collaborative quality improvement (QI) initiative in acute coronary syndromes (ACS) will be presented at the Association of American Medical Colleges' (AAMC) 2012 Integrating Quality Meeting: Collaborating for Care on Thursday, June 7, 2012, in Rosemont, IL.
ACS, a primary cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States (US), account for more than 1.4 million hospitalizations annually. Despite considerable advances in evidence and updates to guidelines, gaps in ACS assessment and management persist. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), clinicians miss 25% of the opportunities to provide American College of Cardiology (ACC)/AHA guideline-recommended care in clinical practice.
To address this educational need, the collaboration partners developed Improving Acute Coronary Syndromes Management: A Hospital-Specific, CME/CE-Certified Quality Improvement Initiative, which is currently underway in three community-based hospitals in the US that demonstrated a need for improvement in managing and treating ACS patients. This activity is supported by independent medical education grants from the Bristol-Myers Squibb/Sanofi Pharmaceuticals Partnership and from Daiichi Sankyo, Inc., and Lilly USA, LLC.
Todd Dorman, MD, FCCM, Associate Dean and Director of CME at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, will present this initiative and will discuss how this unique certified CME QI activity is designed to improve hospital-based ACS through utilizing key techniques, tools, and skills from the aviation industry’s Crew Resource Management (CRM) model, which examines the role of human error in complex, high-risk teams such as aviation crews.
"On behalf of the collaboration, I look forward to presenting how this innovative QI activity combines evidence-based clinical education with a curriculum based on CRM principles. Ultimately our program is designed to assess improvement in performance of teams treating patients with ACS in the emergency department," said Dr. Dorman.
About Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
In July 2008, U.S. News & World Report ranked The Johns Hopkins Hospital #1 among American hospitals for the 18th consecutive year. Johns Hopkins remains the nation’s leading medical school recipient of research funds from the National Institutes of Health. In 2006, the Johns Hopkins Office of CME received "Accreditation with Commendation" for 6 years, the highest ranking issued by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). Hopkins CME has been recognized as a center for "Best Practices" as a resource to ACCME-accredited providers.
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is an Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC), one of 13 such centers in North America funded in 2002 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The primary mission of the Johns Hopkins EPC is to generate and synthesize knowledge so that evidence-based information can be effectively applied to medical and public health practices. The Johns Hopkins EPC has performed formal systematic literature reviews for the development of practice guidelines and publications in the areas of cardiology, radiology, kidney disease, eye disease, cancer, endocrinology, hypertension, prevention practices, and infectious disease.
In 2007, Johns Hopkins published the results of the systematic review of 68,000 literature citations regarding the effectiveness of CME. This study, funded by a federal grant from AHRQ, is the largest analysis of CME ever undertaken and is available online: www.ahrq.gov/clinic/tp/cmetp.htm.
Through the Johns Hopkins International Office, Hopkins partners with other medical institutions around the world to help undertake research initiatives, provide Hopkins’ CME programs, and help achieve the highest level of patient care. Hopkins international affiliations include programs and projects in China, Singapore, Lebanon, India, and the United Arab Emirates, as well as in countries in Europe and South and Central America. Through Hopkins International Patient Services, between 3,000 and 5,000 patients with acute medical conditions come to Hopkins each year for state-of-the-art medical care.
About EMCREG-International
EMCREG-International has been in existence since 1989 as a research and educational organization (www.emcreg.org) and has offered a satellite symposium at the ACEP Scientific Assembly for the last 15 years. Since 1997, EMCREG-International symposia have been recognized by emergency physicians as a high-quality, non-biased source of cutting edge information on cardiovascular and neurovascular emergencies. EMCREG-International is an independent international network of academic emergency physician clinical investigators and educators dedicated to research and education in emergency cardiac and neurovascular care and to providing the practicing emergency physician extensive exposure to important issues in the specialty of emergency medicine.
The Mission of EMCREG-International is to provide up-to-date, evidence-based, and clinically useful educational materials to healthcare professionals involved in the care of emergency conditions. This organization takes great pride and extends extraordinary effort to provide educational materials free of commercial bias. Although these educational endeavors are sponsored in part by industry, speaker or contributor influence or bias is carefully reviewed and strictly prohibited.
About Med-IQ
Med-IQ, America’s most respected provider of continuing medical education (CME), inspires healthcare professionals through activities that deliver sophisticated outcomes-based educational designs with measurable results in professional competence and performance. Med-IQ received the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions' President’s Award (2012), Award for Outstanding CME Outcomes Assessment (2012), and William Campbell Felch Award for Outstanding Research in CME (2011). Med-IQ is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the California Board of Registered Nursing (CBRN), and the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing medical education to physicians, nurses, and pharmacists, respectively. We are a leader in the development of performance improvement (PI) and quality improvement (QI) CME initiatives. To learn more about Med-IQ, visit www.Med-IQ.com, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, connect with us on LinkedIn, and visit our YouTube channel.
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