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Understanding and Improving Your Work RVUs

ANNE C. KANTNER

Knowing how your services are valued is key to understanding and improving your productivity.

Using Morbidity and Mortality Conferences to Drive Quality Improvement and Reduce Errors

BENJAMIN LAI, JENNIFER HORN, JOHN WILKINSON, GREGORY M. GARRISON

“M&M” conferences have traditionally been the means for addressing medical errors, but too often they have focused on assigning individual blame rather than identifying root causes within systems.

Addressing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Eight Tips for a Better Conversation

SURASRI PRAPASIRI, DEVON FISHER CHAVEZ

Information sharing and motivational interviewing techniques can build trust and make vaccine-hesitant patients more open to getting the shot.

Patient Safety Tools for Primary Care

JAMES DOMDERA

Taking a cue from industries like aviation, physicians and care teams can use proven tools to keep patients from harm.

FROM THE EDITOR

The Power of Process

JAMES DOMDERA

By standardizing standard things, we reduce failure.

CODING & DOCUMENTATION

Coding & Documentation

CINDY HUGHES

EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT E/M CODING CHANGES | ASSISTED LIVING AND HOME VISIT E/M CODING CHANGES | DIAGNOSIS CODES FOR DIFFICULTY WITH DAILY ACTIVITIES

PRACTICE PEARLS

Practice Pearls

Marc Berger, Olivia Dhaliwal, David Miller

HELP PATIENTS MAKE A PILL PLANNER “CHEAT SHEET” | EVALUATE YOUR PANEL SIZE | USE MOCK VACCINATION AND RELAXATION TECHNIQUES TO ADDRESS NEEDLE PHOBIA

THE LAST WORD

Reclaiming Primary Care's "Secret Sauce"

ROBERT EIDUS

Imagine how much more effective primary care physicians could be if we weren't burdened with non-physician tasks.

SPONSORED CONTENT

Quality Payment Program: MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs)

This supplement provides an overview of what physicians need to know about MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs).

Case Studies in Innovative Community Engagement to Improve Health Equity in Cardiovascular Disease

Brian Forrest, Casey Williams, Marsha Broussard, Tiffany Hill, Whitney Kirkman, Rajani Bharati

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the United States, with approximately one in five deaths due to CVD. Though the mortality rate is decreasing, racial disparities in outcomes have persisted.



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