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Participants who did not hear about the risk of PIs during their admission had 3.31 times higher odds of reporting having a PI.

Falls are considered a nurse-sensitive incident because fall prevention is impacted by the quantity and quality of nursing care.

The American College of Physicians Performance Measurement Committee reviewed the single MIPS quality measure tied to migraine and declined to support it, citing outdated guideline basis, missing exclusions, and lack of physician-level testing.

The AMA’s CPT Editorial Panel approved a structural overhaul of maternity care coding, replacing global obstetric codes with phase-specific reporting across antepartum, labor management, delivery, and postpartum care effective January 1, 2027.

The American College of Physicians issued updated breast cancer screening guidance recommending biennial mammography for average-risk women aged 50 to 74, with shared decision-making for those 40 to 49 and discontinuation discussions after 74.

“To realize the full potential of the [Safe Childbirth Checklist], implementers and policymakers need to understand better what quality infrastructure is necessary to create an enabling environment.” (Kaplan et al., JAMA Network Open)