Primary Care Diabetes Fellowship Programs: Developing National Standards

Commentary on the National Standards for Diabetes Patient Education Programs.

National quality-of-care standards in home-based primary care.

BACKGROUND Home-based primary care for homebound seniors is complex, and practice constraints are unique. No quality-of-care standards exist. OBJECTIVE To identify process quality indicators that are essential to high-quality, home-based primary care. DESIGN An expert development panel reviewed established and new quality indicators for applicability to home-based primary care. A separate n...

Newborn's primary care standards do graduate midwifery

Introduction: First minutes of a baby's life are very important stage of life is filled with danger, this study aimed to assess the infant's primary care standards do graduate midwifes. Methods: Present research is a cross-sectional study. Statistical society of this research is a group of recent graduated midwifes including 50 persons, have graduated in the recent three years and are providin...

The primary care sports medicine fellowship: American Medical Society for Sports Medicine proposed standards of excellence.

The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine recognises a need to provide direction and continually enhance the quality of sports medicine fellowship training programmes. This document was developed to be an educational resource for sports medicine physicians who teach in a 1-year primary care sports medicine fellowship training programme. It is meant to provide high standards and targets f...

National home care standards urged.

176 CMAJ, February 8, 2011, 183(2) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors orient themselves with a lot of resources and a lot of sophistication. What do you do with a solo GP? Or even a multi-group practice?” Infection prevention and control in Canada has been focused on acute care facilities as a consequence of rising rates of health care–associated infections, which are now esti...