Association Between Imposition of a Maintenance of Certification Requirement and Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Hospitalizations and Health Care Costs
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Association Between Imposition of a Maintenance of Certification Requirement and Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Hospitalizations and Health Care Costs

Published: Dec 10, 2014
Publisher: The Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 312, no. 22
Health Delivery System Reforms
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Authors

Bradley M. Gray

Jonathan L. Vandergrift

Mary M. Johnston

James D. Reschovsky

Lorna A. Lynn

Eric S. Holmboe

Jeffrey S. McCullough

Rebecca S. Lipner

In 1990, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) ended lifelong certification by initiating a 10-year Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program that first took effect in 2000. Despite the importance of this change, there has been limited research examining associations between the MOC requirement and patient outcomes.

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