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Activity Title: EQIPP: Medical Home

Activity Location: Online




ACCME Accreditation Statement

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.



The AAP designates this enduring material for a maximum of 34 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.



The AAP designates this PI CME activity for a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.



This program is accredited for 34 NAPNAP CE contact hours of which 0 contain pharmacology (Rx), (0 related to psychopharmacology) (0 related to controlled substances), content per the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners Continuing Education Guidelines.

The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts certificates of participation for

educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited

by ACCME. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 34 hours of Category 1 credit for

completing this program.



This activity is acceptable for a maximum of 34 credits. These credits can be applied toward the AAP CME/CPD Award available to Fellows and Candidate Members of the AAP.

Course Goals

The goal of this EQIPP: Medical Home course is to help you create plans for improvement and to address gaps identified in key activities of clinical care related to medical home. These activities focus on improving ongoing medical care and patient/family education and support. You will collect baseline and follow-up data as you work to improve care and processes through Plan, Do, Study, and Act (PDSA) cycles.



Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will:

1. Develop your practice’s “medical homeness” in the following ways:

  • Form a team for medical home improvement.
  • Develop a system such as a registry to identify and manage your patient population or one or more subpopulations.
  • Cultivate a personal and ongoing relationship with each patient to provide first-contact, continuous, and comprehensive care; enhance access to care to ensure care is delivered when, where, and how it is needed and wanted.
  • Develop family-centered partnerships with families, respecting that they are the constant in their child’s life; apply principles of family-centered care.
  • Identify ways to plan, manage, document, and follow up on patients’ preventive, acute, and chronic health care needs, while also addressing their educational, developmental, and behavioral/psychological needs.
  • Develop processes to coordinate care across care settings to ensure shared goals of care and timely and optimal communication and information exchange.
2. Measure and improve care delivery and processes in your medical home by doing the following:

  • Collect and analyze baseline data to establish a starting point for improvement.
  • Identify one or more performance gaps in key activities
  • Create an improvement plan for closing identified performance gap(s) and document the improvement idea to be tested:
  • AIM: What are we trying to improve or accomplish?
  • MEASURES: How will we know that a change made is an improvement?
  • CHANGES: What changes can we make that will result in improvement?
  • Test ideas quickly on a small scale to determine if the changes lead to improvement.
  • Collect and analyze follow-up data to measure the results of the test. (A minimum of two follow-up data collection cycles are necessary for course completion and maintenance of certification recognition).
  • Determine how to sustain successful changes and how to systematically integrate them into the culture, processes, and workflow of your practice.
  • Create additional improvement plans and repeat PDSA cycles until you reach the maximum potential of providing optimal care in your practice.


Disclosure of Financial Relationships and Resolution of Conflicts of Interest for AAP

CME Activities


The AAP CME program aims to develop, maintain, and improve the competence, skills, and

professional performance of pediatricians and pediatric healthcare professionals by providing

quality, relevant, accessible, and effective educational experiences that address gaps in

professional practice. The AAP CME program strives to meet participants' educational needs

and support their life-long learning with a goal of improving care for children and families. (AAP

CME Program Mission Statement, January 2013)



The AAP recognizes that there are a variety of financial relationships between individuals and

commercial interests that require review to identify possible conflicts of interest in a CME

activity. The “AAP Policy on Disclosure of Financial Relationships and Resolution of Conflicts of

Interest for AAP CME Activities” is designed to ensure quality, objective, balanced, and

scientifically rigorous AAP sponsored or jointly sponsored Continuing Medical Education (CME)

activities by identifying and resolving all potential conflicts of interest prior to the confirmation of

service of those in a position to influence and/or control CME content.



All AAP CME activities will strictly adhere to the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical

Education (ACCME) Standards for Commercial Support: Standards to Ensure the

Independence of CME Activities. In accordance with these Standards, the following decisions

will be made free of the control of a commercial interest: identification of CME needs,

determination of educational objectives, selection and presentation of content, selection of all

persons and organizations that will be in a position to control the content, selection of

educational methods, and evaluation of the CME activity (ACCME Standard 1.1).



The purpose of this policy and its associated procedures is to ensure all potential conflicts of

interest are identified and mechanisms to resolve them prior to the CME activity are

implemented in ways that are consistent with the public good.



The content of this CME activity does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the AAP.



Disclosure of Financial Relationships



All individuals in a position to influence and/or control the content of AAP CME activities are

required to disclose to the AAP and subsequently to learners that the individual either has no

relevant financial relationships or any financial relationships with the manufacturer(s) of any

commercial product(s) and/or provider(s) of commercial services discussed in CME activities.

*Commercial interest is defined as any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing

health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.





Name/Role

Relevant Financial Relationship

(Please indicate Yes, or No)

Name of Commercial Interest(s)*

Please list name(s) of entity AND Nature of Relevant Financial Relationship(s)

(Please list: Research Grant, Speaker’s Bureau, Stock/Bonds excluding mutual funds, Consultant, Other - identify)

Disclosure of Off-Label (Unapproved)/

Investigational Uses of Products

 

AAP CME faculty are required to disclose to the AAP and to learners when they plan to discuss or demonstrate pharmaceuticals and/or medical devices that are not approved by the FDA and/or medical or surgical procedures that involve an unapproved or “off-label” use of an approved device or pharmaceutical.

(Do intend to discuss or Do not intend to discuss)

Beverly Baker (Revision Author)

NO

 

Do not intend to discuss

Jennifer Lail, MD (Revision Author)

NO

 

Do not intend to discuss

L. Adriana Matiz, MD

(Revision Author)

NO

 

Do not intend to discuss

Matthew Saddof, MD

(Revision Author)

NO

 

Do not intend to discuss

Becky Harris (Instructional Designer / staff)

NO

 

Do not intend to discuss

Tamiko O’Brill (Staff)

NO

 

Do not intend to discuss

Michele Esquivel, MPH

(staff)

NO

 

Do not intend to discuss

Angela Tobin, AM, LSW

(staff)

NO

 

Do not intend to discuss

Jill Healy, MS

(staff)

NO

 

Do not intend to discuss

Dana Bright

(staff)

NO

 

Do not intend to discuss







Commercial Supporters

The EQIPP: Medical Home course was produced by the American Academy of Pediatrics. This course is supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics and Friends of Children.



Product-Specific Advertising

No product-specific advertising of any type appears in this activity. No links to product websites appear in this activity.



List of Principal Faculty and Credentials

Beverly Baker

Jennifer Lail, MD, FAAP

L. Adriana Matiz, MD, FAAP

Matthew Sadoff, MD, FAAP



AAP Staff:

Dana Bright

Jill Healy, MS

Michele Esquivel, MPH

Lori Morawski, MPH

Tamiko O’Brill, MS

Angela Tobin, AM, LSW



Instructional Designer:

Becky Harris, CPT, CPLP



Name of Medium or Combination of Media Used

Internet course



Method of physician participation in the learning process

The EQIPP: Medical Home course requires you to do some work online and some offline. The online work involves reviewing the content presentation, researching linked information, and participating in guided activities. The offline work includes the performance improvement activities you will do within your own practice to improve key activities in your practice.



Please note: CME credit is only awarded to learners who enter and analyze data. Using sample data provided by EQIPP will exclude learners from receiving AMA Category 1 Credit for the performance improvement activity portion of the course.



Estimated time to complete the educational activity

You may progress through the course at a pace that is comfortable for you, taking into consideration the demands of your practice. But it is important to establish a goal for completion. The amount of time you are likely to spend per clinical content area can vary depending on if you pursue additional links for more learning. You may also want to consider some elapsed time between sections to “catch your breath.”



Completion requirements for the Performance Improvement activity include:

1. Enter baseline data and analyze your results.

2. Create an improvement plan that has a minimum of 1 aim statement.

3. Document a minimum of 1 idea for change

4. Enter data for a minimum of two follow up data sets and analyze your results.

5. Submit a course evaluation.

Generally speaking, the course can be completed within 4-8 months, depending on the number of improvement cycles you make to reach the goals you have set for your practice.

Instructions for Claiming Credit

You may claim a maximum of 34 AMA PRA Category 1TM enduring material credits after completing all the assessments in the course. In order to pass an assessment, you must complete the assessment with a score of 70% or greater. You may claim 20 AMA PRA Category 1TM performance improvement credits after fulfilling the completion requirements noted in the section above (sample data users are not eligible).

To initiate credit claiming, click the Claim Credit link on the course home page.

American Board of Pediatrics Maintenance of Certification Requirements

The American Board of Pediatrics requires two data cycles to meet MOC requirements. A data cycle consists of Baseline data entry, an improvement plan, an idea for change, and followup data entry.

Dates of Original Release and Most Recent Review or Revision

This course was launched on November 28, 2014



Termination Date

This course will remain online until November 28, 2017. It will no longer be certified for credit after November 28, 2017



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Provider Contact information

If you have questions about this course or encounter technical problems, please contact EQIPP at [email protected]. Subject: EQIPP: Medical Home



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