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Prioritizing Equity: Advancing Equity Through Quality and Safety Peer Network

Learn more about the AMA Peer Network: https://ama-assn.org/peer-network In this week’s edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, Vice President at the AMA Center for Health Equity speaks with participants from the Peer Network for Advancing Equity…

Proper Prescribing

This course goes beyond sound prescribing practices, examining the personal and professional reasons why clinicians fail to prescribe properly. The curriculum covers common misconceptions about opioids, assessment of patients for misuse potential, setting prescribing-related boundaries, team-based pain management approaches, and…

Developing an Equity Tracker

This introductory course introduces the framework for embedding equity into quality and safety, which was developed by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. This activity will provide an overview of the five focus areas and how…

Centering Equity in Digital Health Solution Evaluation

Digital tools can improve health and health care. However, if such technology is not designed, implemented, and evaluated with a focus on equity, it can worsen inequities. Historical and current injustices in the way that health interventions, including digital health…

Embedding Equity Into Quality, Safety, and Risk Analyses

This introductory course introduces the framework for embedding equity into quality and safety, which was developed by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. This activity will provide an overview of the five focus areas and how…

Maternal Sepsis, Part 4: Diagnosing

Sepsis is the third leading cause of pregnancy-related death accounting for 23% of maternal deaths in the United States. To promote early recognition and rapid treatment, multiple professional organizations have provided screening and diagnostic criteria, and treatment recommendations. This series…

Maternal Sepsis, Part 3: Screening

Sepsis is the third leading cause of pregnancy-related death accounting for 23% of maternal deaths in the United States. To promote early recognition and rapid treatment, multiple professional organizations have provided screening and diagnostic criteria, and treatment recommendations. This series…

Maternal Sepsis, Part 2: Definitions, Risk Factors, & Characteristics

Sepsis is the third leading cause of pregnancy-related death accounting for 23% of maternal deaths in the United States. To promote early recognition and rapid treatment, multiple professional organizations have provided screening and diagnostic criteria, and treatment recommendations. This series…

Maternal Sepsis, Part 1: Introduction/Overview

Sepsis is the third leading cause of pregnancy-related death accounting for 23% of maternal deaths in the United States. To promote early recognition and rapid treatment, multiple professional organizations have provided screening and diagnostic criteria, and treatment recommendations. This series…

Labor Induction-Module 7: Oxytocin Safe Administration

In the US, “Mega” (> $10M) and “Nuclear” (> $100M) closed obstetric claims increased 84% in the last decade; obstetric care is a significant factor. Medications used for cervical ripening or labor induction can cause adverse outcomes when used inappropriately…