Mark your calendar for PQA's Quality Forum Lecture Series in March:

Save the Date: March 11, 2010 (1PM Eastern Time)

PQA Quality Lecture Series will feature the FDA Safe Use Initiative...collaborating to Reduce Preventable Harm from Medications

 

On March 11th, PQA welcomes Karen Weiss, MD and Dale Slavin, Ph.D from the FDA who will discuss the FDA's Safe Use Initiative.   This initiative is a creation of collaborative, cross-sector projects to better manage specific risks and reduce preventable harm from medication use.

During this presentation, Drs. Weiss and Slavin will review the Safe Use Initiative’s goals, planned projects including “listening sessions” with public agencies and private organization involved in healthcare and public health as one of the sources for potential partners and projects. The FDA seeks to join in partnership and collaboration with relevant stakeholders to measurably reduce preventable harm from medications and improve patient health.

Dr. Weiss is Associate Director for Medical Policy within the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and serves as the lead individual for the Safe Use Initiative in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.  Under this initiative, FDA will create partnerships with the health care community to improve the safe use of marketed prescription and non-prescription medicines.  Dr. Slavin serves as Senior Policy Analyst for the Safe Use Initiative in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. 

This one-hour teleconference lecture will take place on Thursday, March 11th at 1pm EST. As space is limited for this presentation please RSVP by Monday, March 8th, 2010 to PQA’s Administrator, Karen Peterson at kpeterson@PQAalliance.org.  The dial in number and materials for the call will be provided on March 9th.  


PQA Announces the Release of the EPIQ Program: a complimentary, turn-key quality improvement program for pharmacists

 

Educating Pharmacy Students and Pharmacists to Improve Quality (EPIQ) is a new quality improvement educational resource to be used by pharmacy faculty and others to educate pharmacy students, pharmacists, and other stakeholders about measuring, reporting, and improving quality in pharmacy practice. This program was developed by the University of Arizona through a grant provided by the PQA. It is available on a CD ROM. For more information about this program, click here.

PQA Quality Forum Lecture Series Past Presentations

 

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Improve the quality of medication use across health care settings through a collaborative process in which key stakeholders agree on a strategy for measuring and reporting performance information related to medications.

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