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Activity Steps

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Description

Method of Participation in the Learning Process/Evaluation Method

Successful completion of this activity includes reading the entire article and successfully completing the post-quiz and an evaluation form.

Getting the Most out of the Activity

As you prepare to participate in this activity, please reflect on your practice and your patients and identify clinical challenges you hope to have addressed.

While participating in the training, identify ways you can use newly acquired knowledge, strategies, and skills to enhance patient outcomes and your own professional development.

Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education activity you will be able to:

  1. Assess evolution of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey, its tie into the Value-Based Purchasing program, and its relevance to the surgeon's practice.
  2. Examine factors that may be associated with responses to the HCAHPS survey.
  3. Critique current literature associating HCAHPS results with surgical outcomes.

Disclosures

The authors, faculty and staff in a position to control the content of this CME activity and their spouses/life partners (if any) have disclosed that they have no financial relationships with, or financial interests in, any commercial organizations related to this CME activity.

Price: $49.00

Credits:

  • ACCME 1.5 CME

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Planner
Professions: Physician
Test Code: CSS0518
Published: May 2018
Expires: 1/1/2026
Sources: Contemporary Spine Surgery
Required Passing Score: 7/10 (70%)
Authors: Rohil Malpani, BS, Ari S. Hilibrand, and Jonathan N. Grauer, MD
Categories: Orthopedic , Surgical
Specialties: Neurosurgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Surgery
Topics: HCAHPS , Patient Satisfaction , Surgical Outcomes