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To the Editor: We support the initiative by the ABMS and individual certifying boards to expand the requirements of maintenance of certification to include "performance in practice."¹ This new agenda for ABMS may not have yet been embraced by the quality movement because details of how the boards will measure performance and provide feedback in practice are not yet available, nor have they yet been aligned with other efforts to implement individual physician clinical performance measures. Asking physicians to collect and report data on one set of performance measures for board certification and a different set for other quality initiatives is neither efficient nor desirable.

To help resolve this, in their maintenance of certification programs the ABMS member boards could consider using the more than 60 evidence-based performance measures developed by the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (Consortium),² convened by the American Medical Association (AMA) and comprising methodologists and a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Bernard M. Rosof, MD, MACP
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
Great Neck, NY

Josie R. Williams, MD, MMM, MACP
williams@tamhsc.edu
Rural and Community Health Institute
Texas A&M University System Health Science Center
Bryan, Tex
For the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement

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