15th Annual Practice Partner Research Network (PPRNet)
Project Network Meetings and PPRNet Meeting Cruise

September 22-29, 2010

Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Implementation of Alcohol Screening Intervention
and Treatment in Primary Care Practice

AMTRIP Project Meeting

 

8:00am

Welcome, Introductions, Meeting Overview

Steve Ornstein, MD

8:10am

Project Overview and Progress

Peter Miller, PhD

Paul Nietert, PhD

8:30am

Alcohol Screening and Intervention in Primary Care:

Why It Is So Vitally Important

Ray Anton, MD

8:45am

Brief Review of NIAAA Algorithm:

Introduction to “Best Practices” Panel

Andrea Wessell, PharmD

9:00am

Experiences with Screening and Diagnosis:

Making Screening a Routine Procedure; Comfort Level of Staff and Patients; Handling Patient Questions; Transitioning from Nursing Staff to Provider; Following-up with Diagnostic Questions; Documentation

All Intervention
Practice Liaisons

Moderator: Andrea Wessell, PharmD

10:00am

Break

 

10:15am

Experiences with Brief Intervention:

What Constitutes a Brief Intervention; Comfort Level of Provider; How Do Patients Respond; How Do You Handle Resistance; How Do You Follow Up; Brief Intervention Success Stories; Documentation

All Intervention
Practice Liaisons

Moderators: Peter Miller, PhD

11:00am

Experiences with Alcohol Medications:

What Meds Have You Used; When  and with Whom Do You Consider Meds; How Do You Discuss Meds with Pts; How Do Pts Respond; How Do You Handle Resistance, Medication Success Stories; Multiple Pathways to Success; When and Where Do You Refer; Documentation

All Intervention
Practice Liaisons

Moderators: Steve Ornstein, MD

12:00pm

Lunch Break

 

  1:30pm

Breakout Session: Provider Group/Nursing Staff Group: Discussion of Current Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing AM-TRIP

Facilitators:

Lynne Nemeth, PhD

Carol Lambourne, PhD

Andrea Wessell, PharmD

Ruth Jenkins, Ph.D.

2:00pm

Break up into Provider/Nursing Liaison pairs:

Practices that are crossing over into the Intervention Condition:

(1)  What has your practice been doing?

(2)  What will you do to move this project forward in your practice?

(3)   What specific barriers and facilitators to alcohol screening/intervention do you see ahead for your practice? How will you overcome barriers?

(4)  What are your specific implementation plans for the next year?

Practices that are crossing over into the Control Condition:

(1)  Will your practice continue to screen and counsel patients?

(2)  How will you insure that this will happen?

(3)  What are your specific implementation plans for the next year?

 

All PPRNet Staff Available to Help

2:30pm

Provider/Nursing Liaison Reports and  Discussion

All

4:00pm

Final Thoughts and Plans for the Coming Year

Wrap-Up and Adjourn

Peter Miller, PhD

PPRNet Workshop:

4:00pm - 6:00pm

How to use PPRNet Reports to improve
quality of care in practice:
 Practice, Physician, and Patient Level Reports

Ruth Jenkins, PhD

Paul Nietert, PhD

Jodi Riley

 

 

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Medication Safety in Primary Care Practice Dissemination Meeting
MSTRIP Project Meeting

8:00am

Welcome and Introductions
PPRNet 15:  Where We’ve Been, Where We are Going

Steve Ornstein, MD

Disseminating Findings from the MS-TRIP Project

9:00am

Medication Safety in Primary Care Practice:  Lessons
Learned from the MS-TRIP Project

Andrea Wessell, PharmD

9:30am

Medication Safety in Your Office: Results from
“The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire”

Lynne Nemeth, PhD

9:45am

MS-TRIP “Best Practice” Panels: An Introduction

Andrea Wessell, PharmD

 

Panel 1 - Maintaining Accurate Medication Lists

Jim Wilson Internal Medicine

Good Samaritan Health Center of Cobb

Westshore Family Medicine

10:30am

Break

 

10:45am

Panel 2 – Improving Medication Monitoring
Using Health Maintenance Tools

Plymouth Family Physicians

Washington Hospital
Family Practice

11:30am

Panel 3 – Using PPRNet MS-TRIP Reports to Identify
Patients with Potential Medication Problems 

Skyline Family Practice

Family Practice Partners

12:15pm

Discussion of Other Medication Safety Strategies

All MS-TRIP Practices

12:30pm

Lunch

 

Spreading Medication Safety Innovations throughout PPRNet

2:00pm

Implementing Strategies for Safe Medication Use:  
Who, What, When and How?

Clinician and Nursing/Administrative Staff Groups

3:00pm

Reports from Small Groups

Representatives

3:15pm

Discussion: The Next Generation of Improving
Medication Safety in PPRNet

·         What MS-TRIP indicators did you use?

·         What indicators would you follow/use in PPRNet practice reports?

·         What are we missing?

·         Are the best practice approaches discussed today relevant to your practice?  If no, why not?  If so, in what ways?

·         How will you translate successful approaches to your practice?

All

Facilitated by Research Team

4:15pm

Wrap-up and Next Steps

Andrea Wessell, PharmD

4:30pm

Adjourn

 

 

PPRNet Activities:

4:45pm PPRNet Fun Run and Walk Meet in Hotel Lobby
6:00pm PPRNet Reception Hotel Atrium
7:00pm PPRNet Award Ceremony Hotel Atrium

 

Friday, September 24, 2010

Reducing Inappropriate Prescribing of Antibiotics
by Primary Care Clinicians

ABX-TRIP Project Meeting #2


8:00am

Welcome & Introductions

Steve Ornstein, MD

8:15am

The ABX-Study Project (Update on Objectives,
Design, & Timeline)

Chip Mainous, PhD

8:45am

How is the ABX-TRIP template being used and how does it impact prescribing of abx for ARTIs?

Provider Factors, Organizational Factors, Patient Factors and Technical Issues Affecting Template Use

Panel Discussion

10:15am

Break

 

10:45am

Liaison Meetings: Enhancing Implementation of
ABX-TRIP in our Practice
(Planning Specific Strategies)

Research Team Meeting: Improving the CDS tool
and ABX-TRIP intervention

Practice
Liaison Pairs

 

PPRNet team

11:45am

Research Team Presentation of Plans for
Revised CDS Tool and Intervention

Cara Litvin, MD
Andrea Wessell, PharmD
Steve Ornstein, MD

12:00pm

Practice Presentations  of Implementation Plans

All Practices

12:45pm

Future ABX-TRIP Activities and Wrap Up

Chip Mainous, PhD

1:00pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

September 24 – 29, 2010

PPRNet Network Meeting Cruise
Carnival Cruise Ship Fantasy

September 25, 2010

 

9:00am

Implications for PPRNet practices of ARRA HITECH and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010

Cara Litvin, MD

9:30am

Electronic Health Record Incentive Program:
Getting Paid for Meaningful EMR Use

Rita Hanson, MD

Daryl Melzer, MD

10:00am

Updated Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines
for Prevention and Chronic Disease

Steve Ornstein, MD Andrea Wessell, PharmD

10:30am

Validation of the PPRNet-TRIP QI Model in the
C-TRIP and SO-TRIP Projects--the Importance
of Involving All Staff

Lynne Nemeth, PhD

11:00am

Implications of presentations for PPRNet
practice reports  and other Discussions

Discussion

12:00pm

Adjourn

 

 

September 28, 2010

 

9:00am

Proposed Revisions to PPRNet reports

Ruth Jenkins, PhD

9:30am

The Comparative Effectiveness Research in
Complex Patients Project--CERCOP

Steve Ornstein, MD

10:00am

Future PPRNet projects: CKD, MS-TRIP2, and More

Andrea Wessell, PharmD Cara Litvin, MD

Steve Ornstein, MD

10:30am

Health Maintenance, Progress Note, and
Other Practice Partner Updates

Janet Mullins, MD

11:00am

Guidelines, Risk Assessments, and What
 it Means for Your HM Templates

Robert Pierce, MD

11:30am

Discussion

All

12:00pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

Cruise Itinerary

Port of Call

Arrive/Depart Times

Friday, September 24

Charleston, SC

  Depart at 4:00pm

Saturday, September 25

PPRNet Meeting

  9:00am - 12:00pm

Sunday, September 26

Freeport, Bahamas

  8:00am - 6:00pm

Monday, September 27

Nassau, Bahamas

  7:00am - 7:00pm

Tuesday, September 28

PPRNet Meeting

  9:00am - 12:00pm

Wednesday, September 29

Charleston, SC

  Arrive at 8:00am


Call Jill Stein at Cruise Planners to book your cabin:
843-343-4905

jstein@cruiseplanners.com

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