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Activities in Clinical Preventive Medicine: Time Tools TM and Lifestyle Medicine Initiatives. Liana Lianov, MD, MPH, FACPM. Time Tools TM.
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Activities in Clinical Preventive Medicine: Time ToolsTM and Lifestyle Medicine Initiatives Liana Lianov, MD, MPH, FACPM
Time ToolsTM • Innovative educational tools for clinicians supporting the delivery of evidence-based, clinical preventive services and advancement of effective clinical prevention practice. • Each tool delivers concise, credible, evidence-based clinical prevention guidelines to enhance knowledge, and encourage application, of preventive services in key clinical areas.
Time ToolsTM Components • An executive summary of the evidence and practical approaches to delivering preventive services to patients • A robust clinical resource document delineating the epidemiology of the disease/health behavior/risk, clinical evidence, and recommendations by various professional and government entities • A companion patient guide to be shared during the clinical visit
Recently Developed Time ToolsTM • Use, Abuse, Misuse, and Disposal of Prescription Pain Medication (Purdue Pharma) • Medication Adherence: Improving Health Outcomes (PhRMA) • OTC Medications: Use in General and Special Populations, Therapeutic Errors, Misuse, Storage and Disposal (Consumer Healthcare Products Association)
Medication AdherenceTime ToolTM • Practical • Centered on SIMPLE • Simplify the regimen • Impart knowledge • Modify patient beliefs and human behavior • Provide communication and trust • Leave the bias • Evaluate adherence
Priority Topics Ranked by PPC for Development/Funding • Aspirin Utilization • Nutrition/Benefits of Healthy Diet • Depression Screening • Diabetes • Physical Activity • Elderly Falls • Annual Adult Wellness Visit • HIV Screening • Adult Immunization • Cancer (breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer) • HPV Vaccines • Antibiotic Resistance • Hospital Infections
Lifestyle Medicine (LM) Initiative • Collaboration between ACPM and ACLM (now an academy of ACPM) • Special advocacy group of members and non-members to serve as local champions for increasing integration of LM into practice • Commitment to offer CME opportunities in LM; discussion of a certificate program for completing a designated number of CME’s in LM • Time ToolsTM are an opportunity to enhance this ongoing LM work