The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has made a $50,000 grant to the Academy to hold the first-ever National Ambulatory Primary Care Research and Education Conference on Patient Safety.
The event will be held Sept. 18 - 19 in Chicago.
Academy members can take satisfaction in this tangible example of the success of the National Network for Family Practice and Primary Care Research, says Martin Mahoney, M.D., Ph.D., of Clarence, N.Y., chair of the Commission on Clinical Policies and Research.
"It speaks to the leadership role that AAFP is assuming on this topic, a topic that is of high interest to the public," he said.
The conference is sponsored by the AAFP Developmental Center for Research and Evaluation in Patient Safety -- Primary Care, the Primary Care Organizations Consortium, and the National Patient Safety Foundation, with assistance from the Medical Group Management Association.
Go to http://www.aafp.org/ptsafetyconf.xml to read more about the conference. E-mail Claudia Caton at ccaton@aafp.org for conference registration materials.
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