Quality Improvement Educational Opportunities

EQIPP ••• CONNECTED KIDS ••• QUIIN QI CONFERENCE CALL ARCHIVES ••• SAFER HEALTHCARE FOR KIDS WEBINARS
••• ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

Education in Quality Improvement for Pediatric Practice (EQIPP)
EQIPP allows you to evaluate your practice online, using tools that can be easily implemented to enhance patient care. The goal of EQIPP is to help physicians collect and analyze practice data over time to document improved quality of care. Simulated patient data is also available for non-practicing providers. Physicians will learn what steps are necessary to improve their quality of care on a continuous basis, and be able to transfer their skills to multiple pediatric-specific clinical and practice management topics. This system will help physicians narrow the gap in what they know versus how they practice, and provide them with the necessary tools to close the gap. By providing pediatricians with tools and strategies to make small cycles of change, clinicians can improve practice efficiency and patient care. Earn valuable AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ and meet the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Performance in Practice requirements, enroll online at www.EQIPP.org.

New!
• Nutritional Assessment of the Healthy and Chronically Ill Child
Tailored to meet the interests of generalists and subspecialists alike, EQIPP Nutritional Assessment for the Healthy and Chronically Ill Child  discusses the importance of monitoring growth and nutrition as an indicator of the overall health of the child. EQIPP will demonstrate how to examine documentation and management of a patient’s nutritional status. Explore the science of nutrition, growth measures, and nutritional interventions, including tools, techniques, and resources for establishing healthy eating practices, laying the foundation for lifelong health.

Coming Soon!
• Diagnosing and Managing Asthma in Pediatrics
• Give Your Immunization Rates a Shot in the Arm
• Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)

Future Topics
• Bright Futures
• Medical Home
• Developmental Screening & Surveillance

For more information, contact the EQIPP staff at 800/433-9016, ext 7919; or email EQIPP@aap.org.

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.

Connected Kids for Continuity Clinics
Connected Kids:  Safe, Strong, Secure is a new AAP program that offers pediatricians a comprehensive, asset-based approach to integrating violence prevention efforts in their practices and helping parents and families raise resilient children.  Connected Kids provides information on suggested topics for child health care providers to discuss at each health supervision visit from birth to age 21, supported by printed materials to give parents and teens to reinforce advice. 

The developers of Connected Kids have long viewed residents as an important audience for the program.  In 2008-2009, with support from the Friends of Children Fund, complementary CD-ROMs containing Connected Kids materials will be distributed to continuity clinics nationwide.  The CD will enable continuity clinics to print, replicate, and distribute the 21 Connected Kids patient education handouts so that residents can use them as they are trained to provide health supervision.  Provision of the CDs will be supplemented by an Implementation Guide for training programs and monthly teleconferences to facilitate sharing of ideas among people using Connected Kids in training programs.  If you are a continuity clinic director and want to ensure that you receive a CD, please e-mail connectedkids@aap.org.

Quality Improvement Innovation Network QI Conference Call Archives
Practical tools and strategies are necessary components to assist pediatricians in making changes in practice. The Quality Improvement Innovation Network (QuIIN) Quality Improvement Conference Call Series for Network Members offers learning opportunities to practicing pediatricians and their staff by providing working examples of improvement efforts, the quality improvement tools available, and demonstrations of why and how these tools can be used to improve health care and outcomes for children and their families.

2008 Topics
Implementing Bright Futures into Practice: Lessons Learned from the Bright Futures Training Intervention Project; Autism Spectrum Disorders: Making AAP Policy and the Toolkit Work for You

2007 Topics
Using Registries to Care for Children with Chronic Illness; Making Structured Developmental Assessment a Reality; Strategies for Addressing Obesity in the Practice Setting

Upcoming 2009 Topics
ADHD and Medication Misuse (March 20, 2009); Telephone Care (July 24, 2009); Bright Futures: The Teenage Years (Sept 4, 2009)

For more information, contact quiin@aap.org.

Safer Healthcare for Kids Webinars
The Safer Health Care for Kids program features a series of one-hour Web-based seminars, or Webinars, on various topics within pediatric patient safety. You can participate from the comfort of your office or home, and learn new strategies that you can immediately put into practice to prevent medical errors.

Make plans now to participate in the next offerings of the AAP Safer Health Care for Kids Webinar Series, and learn how you can protect children from unintentional injury due to medical care or from medical error.

Webinars are free, and you can participate from the comfort of your office or home. To view upcoming Webinars and register, visit http://www.aap.org/saferhealthcare/webinar_upcoming.html.

Additional Opportunities

"Quality" Search on CME Finder

AAP Maintenance of Certification Brochure