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Implementation of achievable benchmarks in preventive health was examined

Published in Vaccine Weekly, September 6th, 2006

Investigators examine the implementation of achievable benchmarks in preventive health in a recent issue of Academic Medicine.

Researchers in the United States conducted a study "to evaluate the Preventive Health Achievable Benchmarks Curriculum, a multifaceted improvement intervention that included an objective, practice-based performance evaluation of internal medicine and pediatric residents' delivery of preventive services."

"The authors conducted a non-randomized experiment of intervention versus control group residents with baseline and follow-up of performance audited for 2001-2004," said Thomas K. Houston at the University of Alabama...

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