EQIPP: Immunizations - Improve Your Practice Rate
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 8.00 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 Performance Improvement CME program has been reviewed and is approved for a maximum of 20.00 AAPA Category 1 PI-CME credits by the Physician Assistant Review Panel. All stages of the activity must be completed for a participant to claim any credit. Approval is valid until June 13, 2016. Physician Assistants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This program was planned in accordance with AAPA’s CME Standards.
This program is approved for 28.00 NAPNAP CE contact hours of which 4.25 contain pharmacology (Rx) content per the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) Continuing Education Guidelines.
This activity is acceptable for a maximum of 28.00 credits. These credits can be applied toward the AAP CME/CPD Award available to Fellows and Candidate Members of the AAP.
Purpose of Course
The goals of this EQIPP: Improve Your Practice Rates course are to:
• Identify immunization rates in your practice and any barriers to immunization delivery systems. This course will provide techniques to overcome those barriers through the use of clear aims that reflect expert principles and proven quality improvement methods and tools.
• Help you create plans for improvement to address gaps identified in key clinical activities of Immunization. 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 should be familiar with:
• Developing Effective Office Practices to Increase Your Immunizations Rates
• Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy
• Implementing Recall / Reminder System
• Managing Catch up Schedule
• Maximizing Early Adolescent Platform
• Knowing Your Costs to Immunize
Measure and improve care delivery and processes concerning Immunizations by doing the Following:
• Collect and analyze baseline data to establish a starting point for improvement.
• Identify one or more performance gaps in one or more key activities of Immunizations
• Create an improvement plan for closing identified performance gap(s) by clarifying 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 your ideas quickly, on a small scale, so you can determine if the changes lead to improvement.
• Collect and analyze follow-up data to measure the results of your test.
• 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 Immunizations care for patients 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, September 2010)
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.
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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.
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Henry Bernstein, DO, FAAP (SME)
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Courtney T. Chow, BA (SME)
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Margaret Fisher, MD, FAAP (SME)
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Christopher Rizzo, MD, FAAP (SME)
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Edward Rothstein, MD, FAAP (SME)
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Andrew Kroger, MD, MPH (Reviewer)
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Elizabeth Sobczyk, MPH, MSW, Manager Immunization Initiatives (AAP Staff)
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Lori Morawski, MPH CHES (AAP Staff)
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Richard Kratz, MD (Reviewer)
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Tamiko O’Brill, MS (AAP Staff)
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Commercial Supporters
The EQIPP: Immunizations – Improve Your Practice Rates course was produced by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The work was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
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 Immunizations Faculty and Credentials
Henry Bernstein, DO, FAAP
Courtney T. Chow, BA
Margaret Fisher, MD, FAAP
Christopher Rizzo, MD, FAAP
Edward Rothstein, MD, FAAP
CDC Liaison
Andrew Kroger, MD, MPH
AAP Staff
Elizabeth Sobczyk, MPH, MSW, Manager Immunization Initiatives
2013 Revision Faculty
Richard Kratz, MD
AAP Staff
Elizabeth Sobczyk, MPH, MSW, Manager Immunization Initiatives
Katie Milewski
Instructional Designer
Becky Harris
Name of Medium or Combination of Media Used
Internet course
Method of physician participation in the learning process
The EQIPP: Immunizations – Improve Your Practice Rates 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 the Immunizations rates 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 set and analyze your results.
5. Submit a course evaluation.
Generally speaking, the EQIPP: Immunizations – Improve Your Practice Rates 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.
The American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) requires completion of two follow up data cycles to meet Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Part 4: Performance in Practice requirements. In EQIPP, a data cycle consists of Baseline data entry, an improvement plan, and followup data entry. You will be eligible to claim Performance Improvement (PI) Credit and notify the ABP upon completion of the 2nd follow up data cycles.
Dates of Original Release and Most Recent Review or Revision
This course was launched on June 13, 2013
Termination Date
This course will remain online until June 13, 2016. It will no longer be certified for credit after June 13, 2016.
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Provider Contact information
If you have questions about this course or encounter technical problems, please contact AAP DOEL staff at
EQIPP@aap.org.
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