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In 2015 CMS identified 254 quality measures for which providers may choose to submit data. The measures map to U.S. National Quality Standard (NQS) health care quality domains: [4]
President. Jesse M. Ehrenfeld (MD, MPH) [2] Revenue (2022) $493,147,829 [3] Website. ama-assn.org. The American Medical Association (AMA) is an American professional association and lobbying group of physicians and medical students. Founded in 1847, it is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. [4][5] Membership was 271,660 in 2022.
Clinical peer review, also known as medical peer review is the process by which health care professionals, including those in nursing and pharmacy, evaluate each other's clinical performance. [1][2] A discipline-specific process may be referenced accordingly (e.g., physician peer review, nursing peer review). Today, clinical peer review is most ...
Physicians' Desk Reference. The Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR), renamed Prescriber's Digital Reference after its physical publication was discontinued, is a compilation of manufacturers' prescribing information (package insert) on prescription drugs, updated regularly and published by ConnectiveRx. [citation needed]
The Patient Safety Reporting System (PSRS) is a program modeled upon the Aviation Safety Reporting System and developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to monitor patient safety through voluntary, confidential reports. [78]
The results showed that the full set of proposed quality standards were only met in 28.1% of patients, who were all diagnosed between 2011 and 2014 with non-metastatic rectal cancer. [9] The completion of these measures varied based on location of the facility, type of facility, insurance, race, stage of disease, and operative volume.
Flexner Report. The Flexner Report[1] is a book-length landmark report of medical education in the United States and Canada, written by Abraham Flexner and published in 1910 under the aegis of the Carnegie Foundation. Flexner not only described the state of medical education in North America, but he also gave detailed descriptions of the ...
Emergency Medical Technician II (EMT-II) (Analogous to EMT-I/85) Emergency Medical Technician III (EMT-III) (Analogous to AEMT/85) Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT) (Established in 2015, follows and is certified via the NREMT testing process) Mobile Intensive Care Paramedic (MICP) (Analogous to Paramedic via NREMT)