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Measuring health care quality: Implications, threats, and opportunities for clinical pharmacists

• The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 has helped usher in an era of focus on health care quality and quality improvement.
• Many studies have demonstrated the value of integrating clinical pharmacist services into interdisciplinary models of care for the purpose of moving the needle on performance measures.
• This article presents clinical scenarios of patient care—set in inpatient, ambulatory care, and community practice settings—that engage pharmacists in the context of quality measurement and evaluate the implications, threats, and opportunities for clinical pharmacists

Source: ACCP

Will the COVID-19 pandemic transform infection prevention and control in surgery? Seeking leverage points for organizational learning

• In response to the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, healthcare systems worldwide have stepped up their infection prevention and control efforts in order to reduce the spread of the infection.
• Behaviours, such as hand hygiene, screening and cohorting of patients, and the appropriate use of antibiotics have long been recommended in surgery, but their implementation has often been patchy.
• For achieving sustainable change in IPCS practices in surgery during COVID-19 and beyond we need to enhance organizational learning potentials.

Source: Oxford Academic

The effect of electronic audits and feedback in primary care and factors that contribute to their effectiveness: a systematic review

The aim of this systematic review was

• to assess whether electronic audit and feedback (A&F) is effective in primary care and
• to evaluate important features concerning content and delivery of the feedback in primary care, including the use of benchmarks, the frequency of feedback, the cognitive load of feedback and the evidence-based aspects of the feedback.

This systematic review included 29 articles examining electronic A&F interventions in primary care, and 76% of the interventions were effective.

Source: Oxford Academic

Why Success Depends More on Personality Than Intelligence

• Most of us not gifted with an Einstein-size brain or extreme self-confidence have sometimes wondered: Am I really smart enough to achieve my dreams?
• Some of us have even turned down an offer or not pursued an opportunity because we’re afraid we simply don’t have the mental horsepower to succeed.
• That’s a shame, suggests fascinating new science conducted by Nobel laureate James Heckman and colleagues, because IQ has pretty much nothing to do with success.

Source: Inc.com

 Top Five Artificial Intelligence Predictions For 2021

• As AI becomes more ubiquitous, it’s also become more autonomous — able to act on its own without human supervision.
• This demonstrates progress, but it also introduces concerns around control over AI.
• The AI Arms Race has driven organizations everywhere to deliver the most sophisticated algorithms around, but this can come at a price, ignoring cultural and ethical values that are critical to responsible AI.
• This article demonstrates five predictions on what we should expect to see in AI in 2021.

Source: Analytics India

Forging ahead from adaptations of teaching during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Perspectives from multiple pharmacy programs

• The introduction of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic in the Spring semester of 2020 sent many educational units, elementary to higher education, scrambling to move content to remote learning.
• Within a professional program, this push highlighted gaps or potential pitfalls in preparing students to enter the health care field.
• This article highlights lessons learned in remote teaching during the pandemic from six unique colleges and schools of pharmacy

Source: ACCP

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