About CERTs
Annual Report Year 2
Preface | Steering Committee Letter | Introduction | Focus on the Centers | Focus on the Program | Conclusion | CERTs Organization | Glossary
Conclusion
We have accomplished much this year, and we have even bigger goals for next year. In the end, though, we won't have achieved our vision until there is "a CERTs in every pot," so to speak.
Why? To be trusted, a resource must be credible, local, personal, and easily accessible. The most direct way we can become such a resource is to expand our collaborative pool to cover new areas of the country, new types of practices, new sources of support, new methods of education, and new groups of patients. The PATHs will help achieve this goal, by extending the reach of CERTs through a national network of collaborations.
In addition to increasing our local presence, we also hope to change the way caregivers receive, incorporate, and apply information about medical products. We intend to start this tremendous undertaking by fundamentally changing the education of doctors, nurses, and pharmacists about therapeutic options-from the time they begin their education through the time they are in practice.
As we noted in last year's Annual Report, no one should have doubts about the medical products they prescribe or use. With our collaborators in research and in education, we are seeking the knowledge that will dispel such doubts. Armed with this knowledge, all of us then will be able to take informed action to improve our health.
The CERTs Group
- Developing knowledge
- Managing risk
- Improving practice
- Informing policies