Mayo Clinic proceedings
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Mayo Clinic proceedings · Sep 2012
Effect of a primary care continuing education program on clinical practice of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: translating theory into practice.
To describe the development and implementation process and assess the effect on self-reported clinical practice changes of a multidisciplinary, collaborative, interactive continuing medical education (CME)/continuing education (CE) program on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). ⋯ A carefully designed, interactive, flexible, dynamic, and reproducible COPD CME/CE program tailored to clinicians' needs that involves diverse instructional strategies and media can have short-term and long-term improvements in clinician self-confidence, knowledge/comprehension, and clinical practice.
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Mayo Clinic proceedings · Sep 2012
Derivation and validation of automated electronic search strategies to extract Charlson comorbidities from electronic medical records.
To develop and validate automated electronic note search strategies (automated digital algorithm) to identify Charlson comorbidities. ⋯ Our results suggest that search strategies that use automated electronic search strategies to extract Charlson comorbidities from the clinical notes contained within the electronic medical record are feasible and reliable. Automated digital algorithm outperformed ICD-9 codes in all the Charlson variables except leukemia, with greater sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values.