title: Continuing medical education costs and benefits: lessons for competing in a changing health care economy.
abstract: Current approaches to evaluation in continuing medical education (CME) feature results defined as changes in participation, satisfaction, knowledge, behavior, and patient outcomes. Few studies link costs and effectiveness of CME to improved quality of care. As continuing education programs compete for scarce resources, cost-inclusive evaluation offers strategies to measure change and to determine value for resources spent.
authors.forename: Paul E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Mazmanian
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000191:economics*; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care