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This initiative is designed to provide you with effective and clinically relevant strategies to increase the smoking quit rates for your patients.
The innovative format provides self-directed learning aimed at helping you locate gaps in your practice.  During the self-assessment process, you'll locate these gaps, identify a plan for change and improvement and implement them into your practice.

Performance Improvement Process:
There are three phases to this initiative.  Chart Documentation, Self-Assessment and Reflection.  The following explains each phase:
Chart Documentation
You'll begin with a chart audit.  An important tool associated with this program is CareMeasures® which is a patient registry.  A registry captures clinical information at the point of care and calculates compliance with clinical guidelines appropriate for each patient.  This real-time approach allows you to assess your performance at any point in time based upon current data.  You can identify gaps in care for individual patients or at the aggregate practice level.  You can proactively monitor and improve clinical outcomes by using registry data to impact the care provided to your patients.  Upon entering 20 charts, you can move on to the Self-Assessment phase.
Self-Assessment
After 20 Charts have been entered, you'll access the Self-Assessment phase.  You'll assess your practice, knowledge and behavior through reviewing clinical vignettes and answering questions associated with each case.   
Reflection
This phase provides the evaluation of your self-assessment.  You'll compare desired with actual abilities to help you develop your own practice improvement goals.  We'll also provide you with additional learning opportunities and resources to further enhance and meet your goals.
You'll continue entering information into CareMeasures® during this phase and document successes and obstacles in meeting your goals.  This phase will last close to 10 months as you continue to document your Performance Improvement and enter information into the registry.

Contact Information:
IPMA
Heidi Ness
hness@ipmameded.org
608-592-1622

Accreditation
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Expiration Date: December 31, 2010
Estimated time to complete this activity: 10 months
Intended Audience
The target learners for this activity are physicians and healthcare professionals in the family practice setting.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
• Learn how a patient registry can improve patient management.
• Deploy a patient registry into your practice.
• Use the 5 As for tobacco cessation.
• Implement a Performance Improvement project in your practice.
• Use clinically relevant strategies to increase the smoking quit rates for your patients.
Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).  IPMA is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education to physicians.
Credit Designation
IPMA designates this continuing medical education activity for a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Commercial Support
The CS2day initiative is supported by an educational grant from Pfizer.
Method of Participation
Learners will participate in this educational activity by implementing a patient registry and performance improvement project into their practice. This activity should take 10 months to complete.
IPMA Planning Disclosure Statement
As a provider dedicated to independent education and accredited by the ACCME, IPMA must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its educational activities. It is the policy of IPMA to require the disclosure of the existence of any significant financial interest or any other relationship a faculty member, planner, or sponsor has with either the commercial supporter of this activity or the manufacturer(s) of any commercial product(s) discussed in an educational presentation.
Planners
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Credit will be issued by IPMA to participants who complete this performance improvement initiative.  A CME certificate will be emailed upon completion.  Please e-mail cmehelp@ipmameded.org if you do not want to receive any communications from us.