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A New ERA: Evidence-based Stroke and Symptom Reduction in Atrial Fibrillation

Thank you for your interest in the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC's) performance improvement modules. We are no longer enrolling new chart review registrants. Registration to A New ERA is now closed to all clinicians except those who are current, active participants in the ACC-NCDR® PINNACLE Registry®.

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If you are ready to participate in an educational initiative that will help you to improve the care of your patients with atrial fibrillation (afib) then A New ERA: Evidence-based Stroke and Symptom Reduction in Atrial Fibrillation (A New ERA) will assist you in this effort. This free innovative performance improvement (PI) educational initiative 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).

A PI educational activity begins with an assessment of current practice. In A New ERA two possible data sources are available to you to determine baseline practice patterns: (1) data from the ACC-NCDR® PINNACLE Registry® (formerly the IC3 Program), or (2) data derived from chart reviews. As a participant in this activity, you will be engaged in an evidence-based performance improvement CME/CNE plan which will include live and/or web-based activities.


How long will it take to complete A New ERA? A New ERA 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 ACCF’s analysis of the data you submit in stages A and C, 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 A New ERA activity

Original Release Date: July 21, 2010

Expiration Date: March 31, 2012

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.

Acknowledgments

Major independent educational grant support for A New ERA is provided by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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 Docs)

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