Performance Improvement (PI) CME Course: Practical Solutions to Prevent and Prepare for Severe Hypoglycemia: Expanding the Benefit of Quality Improvement Programs to Diverse Provider Types

Activity ID

10154

Expires

May 31, 2025

Format Type

Performance Improvement (PI)

CME Credit

Fee

CME Provider: Purdue University College of Pharmacy

Description of CME Course

Lack of funding, lack of staff training and resources, lack of support from management, lack of buy-in from clinicians, lack of leadership, poor communication, resistance to change, and lack of data systems or analytics infrastructure…. the reasons we don’t do quality improvement (QI) are many, but what if there was an easier way? QI is critical to enhancing healthcare safety, effectiveness, and efficiency, and is a key component of reimbursement and maintenance of certification, but often difficult to undertake outside of a large healthcare system.

To help all clinicians and their patients reap the benefits of quality improvement programs, Purdue University and the Academy for Continued Healthcare Learning (ACHL) have collaborated with expert faculty to create an easy-to-administer, scalable digital QI program to improve adherence to guidelines for the prevention of severe hypoglycemia in patients with diabetes.

This digital QI program walks you through steps to assess how well your clinical practices align with evidence-based practice, allows you to select pre-developed goals to address your identified gaps or create your own, dynamically creates an action plan for you and your team, and offers a cache of pre-developed interventions to achieve these goals.

ABMS Member Board Approvals by Type

ABMS Lifelong Learning CME Activity

Family Medicine

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Commercial Support?

Yes

NOTE: If a Member Board has not deemed this activity for MOC approval as an accredited CME activity, this activity may count toward an ABMS Member Board’s general CME requirement. Please refer directly to your Member Board’s MOC Part II Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment Program Requirements.

General Information on CME Activity

Educational Objectives

Identify patient-level predictors of severe hypoglycemia and related morbidity
Discuss the barriers to recognizing and treating severe hypoglycemia
Utilize strategies to increase and optimize the prevention and preparedness for severe hypoglycemia
Implement patient education approaches to improve success rates for glucagon administration for severe hypoglycemic events

Keywords

Diabetes, Insulin, Glucose, At-risk, PI-CME

Competencies

Medical Knowledge, Patient Care & Procedural Skills, Practice-based Learning & Improvement

CME Credit Type

AMA PRA Category 1 Credit

MIPS Approved

This activity qualifies for the CMS Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), where you can earn a performance-based payment adjustment to your Medicare payment

Practice Setting

Academic Medicine, Inpatient, Outpatient, Rural, Urban, VA/Military