 If you are ready to participate in an educational initiative that will help you to improve the care of your patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS); and if you treat patients in a hospital that collects performance data through the American College of Cardiology (ACC)-NCDR® ACTION Registry®-GWTG™, you have an unique opportunity to participate in this innovative performance improvement (PI) educational initiative. This free activity will provide physicians with 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and 20 contact hours for nursing professionals. In addition, ABIM-certified physicians who successfully complete the initiative are eligible for 20 points towards the Self-Evaluation of Practice Performance requirement of Maintenance of Certification (MOC). Keeping PACE: Patient-centered ACS Care Education (Keeping PACE) marries the power of the ACC-NCDR® ACTION Registry®-GWTG™ to an educational design that demonstrates practice improvement and optimal care of your patients with ACS, utilizing registry data reports to assess baseline practice patterns, and therefore, eliminating the time and need to obtain your own data through chart pulls. As a participant in this activity, you will be engaged in an evidence-based performance improvement CME/CNE plan which will include live activities and/or web-based activities.
How long will it take to complete Keeping PACE?
Keeping PACE is designed to help you improve your patient outcomes as efficiently as possible, with each of the 3 stages requiring a few hours at most. But like most quality and performance improvement efforts, the overall program will require several months to complete. Most of this time reflects the quarterly reporting of data by the ACC-NCDR®ACTION Registry®–GWTG™, with a lag deliberately built into the program after your educational activity in stage B. This gives you a chance to see any impact of this educational program over time. Click here to register or login for the Keeping PACE activity. Click here to see if your hospital participates in the ACC-NCDR® ACTION Registry®-GWTG™
Original Release Date: May 3, 2010
Expiration Date: October 31, 2011 Additional patient education tool:
Cardiac Rehabilitation: Your Journey Back to Heart Health
Need assistance finding a cardiac rehabilitation facility for your patients?
Visit http://www.aacvpr.org/programdirectory for a list of facilities in your area.
Overview This performance improvement activity will be divided into three stages:
Stage A: |
Learning from active involvement in identifying and analyzing important organizational and individual performance gaps. |
Stage B: |
Learning from designing interventions to close performance gaps identified in Stage A and implementing the interventions to patient care using suitable tracking tools. |
Stage C: |
Learning from evaluating the PI effort, reflecting on performance in practice outcomes and comparing to the assessment done in Stage A. |
AcknowledgementsMajor independent educational grant support for Keeping PACE provided by Bristol-Myers Squibb/sanofi Pharmaceuticals Partnership; additional independent educational grant support provided by Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. and Lilly USA, LLC, Pfizer and Schering Corporation. Hardware/Software Requirements To participate in this activity, you will need a high-speed Internet connect (e.g. cable, DSL) and a current Web browser. We recommend Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher for PCs and Firefox 3.0 for Macs. You will also need current versions of Adobe Reader and Windows Media Player as well as software to view .doc documents (e.g. Microsoft Word, Google Doc's). |