| Performance Improvement CME/CE, otherwise known as PI-CME/CE, is an educational format approved for credit by the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Nursing Credentialing Center. PI-CME blends both quality improvement and educational methodologies to provide a high quality learning experience that impacts changes to practice. These activities are structured, long-term processes in which a healthcare professional learns about specific performance metrics, uses metrics to retrospectively assess his practice, applies these metrics prospectively over a useful interval, and reevaluates his performance. As part of this process, clinicians set goals for change and engage in structured learning activities to improve their performance. Performance improvement is an evidence-based participatory program with emphasis on quality of care and patient safety. |
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The PI-CME/CE activity is a three-stage improvement process that involves three separate but integrated stages of learning:
Stage A: |
Learning from active involvement in identifying and analyzing important organizational and individual performance gaps.
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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.
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Stage C: |
Learning from evaluating the PI effort, reflecting on performance in practice outcomes and comparing to the assessment done in Stage A. | All three stages described above are used to develop a complete, structured performance improvement activity.
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