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Continuing Professional Development Integration of Formal CME and Quality Improvement Initiatives
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Literature search

Method

• Medline selection 1996-2000, key words: Education, -Medical, -Continuing AND Quality of Health Care; only review articles were selected.
• Cochrane Library search (12/11/99)

Selected articles

1. D. Davis: Impact of formal Continuing Medical Education. JAMA, sept 1 1999
2. A.D. Oxman: No magic bullets: a systematic review of 102 trials of interventions to improve professional practice.Can. Med Assoc J, Nov 15, 1995.
3. Frank Smith, ea. General Practitioners' continuing education: a review of policies, strategies and effectiveness, and their implications for the future. Brit Journal of General Practice, October 1998.
4. D. Davis: Evidence for the effectiveness of CME. JAMA sept 2,1992
5. D. Davis: Translating guidelines into Practice. A systematic review of theoretic concepts, practical experience and research evidence in the adoption of clinical practice guidelines. CMAJ 1997 aug 15 (ABSTR).
6. Wensing M, Grol R; Single and combined strategies for implementing change in primary care: a literature review. Int J Quality Health Care, 6, 115, 1994.
7. D. Davis Changing physician performance. A systematic review of the effect of continuing medical education strategies. JAMA Vol 274 n°9 (ABSTR).
8. Thomson M A Audit and feedback to improve health professional practice and health care outcomes (part I and II). The Cochrane collaboration. November 1997.
9. Davis DA, Thomson MA, Oxman AD, Haynes RB: Changing physician performance. JAMA, 274,700-5, 1995
10. Davis D, Thomson o' Brien MA, Freemantle N, et al. Impact of formal continuing medical education. Do conferences, workshops, rounds and other traditional continuing education activities change physician behaviour or health care outcomes? JAMA 1999 sep 1; 282:867-74.
11. Holm HA. Quality issues in continuing medical education. BMJ 1998; 316:621-4.
12. Cathy Peck, Martha Mc Call, Belinda Mc Laren, Tai Rotem. Continuing medical education and professional development: international comparisons. BMJ 2000:320; 432-35.
13. Jarvinen, A. and Kohonen, V: Promoting Professional Development in higher education through portfolio assessment. Assessment and evaluation in higher education, 20,1, 25-36.
14. Forker JE, Mc Donald ME. Methodological trends in the healthcare professions: portfolio assessment. Nurse Educ 1996 sep-Oct; 21(5): 9-10.
15. Piterman L, Nelson M. Clinical audit--linking continuing medical education (CME) and practice assessment (PA). Aust Fam Physician 1997 Jul; 26 Suppl 2:S91-5.
16. Hansen DG, Munck AP, Ulso M, Nielsen B, Bjorn, Kragstrup J. General practitioners want continuing education. Audit registrations among 369 physicians in Copenhagen.Ugeskr Laeger 1999 Jan 11; 161.
17. Bentzen N Medical Audit – The APO –method in general practice. Scand J Prim Health Care Suppl 1993; 1:13-8.
18. Munck AP, Gahrn-Hansen B, Sogaard P, Sogaard J. Long-lasting improvement in general practitioners' prescribing of antibiotics by means of medical audit. Scand J Prim Health Care 1999 Sep; 17 (3): 185-90.
19. Melander E, Bjorgell A, Bjorgell P, Ohved I, Molstad S.Medical audit changes physicians' prescribing of antibiotics for respiratory tract infections. Scand J Prim Health care 1999 Sep 17 (3): 180-4.
20. O'Riordan M. Continuing medical education in Irish general practice. Scand J Prim Health Care 2000 Sep; 18:137-8.
21. Winkens R, Pop P, Grol R, et al. Effect of routine individual feedback, over nine years general practitioners requests for tests BMJ 1996; 312:490.
22. Winkens R, Ament A ea; Routine individual feedback on requests for diagnostic tests: an economic evaluation. Decis Making. 1996 Oct-Dec; 16(4): 309-14.

Selected reports

• Hans Asbjørn HOLM Md PhD Recertification – Auto -Evaluation. Consequences of recertification in Norway; paper presented at the EAMF Conference, London 22-23 October 1999.
• D Davis Effective Continuing Medical Education, Presentation on the EAMF conference, London, 1999.
• The good CPD guide; a practical guide to managed CPD; J.Grant PhD, Elly Chambers MA.
• Quality Management in Social Welfare and Health care for the 21st century. Ministry of Social Affairs and Health; 2000; Finland.
• M. Mäkela et.al. - Family Doctor's Journey to Quality, The WONCA Working Party on Quality in Family Medicine, 2001, Stakes, Finland
• Evidence Based Practice in Primary Care ed. Ch.Silagy, A.Haines, BMJ Books, London, 1998
• Tools and methods for Quality Improvement in General Practice, V.Alles et.al, 1998, Stakes, Finland
• Quality Indicators for General Practice, Martin Marshall, Stephen Campbell, Jenny Hacker, Martin Roland, The Nuffield Trust; Sept 2001.