Joint Providership Practice Gap Data Sources
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) requires data sources to show how you identified your professional practice gap. Please include data sources that are relevant to the target audience of your activity.
Examples of data sources include:
- Previous evaluation results;
- Survey of target audience;
- Medical literature review;
- Journal articles;
- Outcomes data;
- Expert opinion (as documented in meeting minutes, emails, etc.);
- Program committee/board consensus (as documented in meeting minutes);
- National and/or specialty guidelines; and
- Local, regional, state or federal/national statistics.
Below is a listing of some potential resources for data sources:
- Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)
- American Board of Neurological Surgeons (ABNS)
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Healthy People
- National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
- Medicare Quality Improvement Community (MedQIC)
- National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Quality Forum (NQF)
- Neuropoint Alliance (NPA)
