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Actionable Insights to the Evolving Management of MS: Important Considerations in Improving Outcomes
Provided by: ASiM
The introduction of treatments designed to change the natural disease course of multiple sclerosis (MS) has focused attention on the economic burden of this disease. Economic evaluations, which analyze the burden of MS on society and the cost effectiveness of new therapies, ...
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Communicating with Patients After Adverse Events
Provided by: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
You chose to work in health care in order to care for people. So when you accidentally harm a patient, it can be exceptionally hard to talk about it. In this course, you’ll learn why communicating with patients after adverse events can feel so difficult for health care pro...
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Striking a Balance: Treating Chronic Pain While Preventing Abuse And Diversion Of Prescription Opioids
Provided by: FreeCE.com
This program will provide pharmacists with an overview of opioid pain medication and identify the signs of abuse and diversion that can occur in patients receiving them. The program will emphasize the role of the pharmacist in intervening and educating patients to prevent ab...
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Understanding and Managing Epilepsy
Provided by: FreeCE.com
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder in which clusters of nerve cells in the brain sometimes signal abnormally. This disorder affects about 2.7 million Americans, and results in an estimated annual cost of $15.5 billion in medical costs and lost or reduced earnings and produc...
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California License Renewal Package 2012: California Dental Practice Act & California Infection Control (ENGLISH & SPANISH versions included in package)
Provided by: My Dental CEs
Our popular California License Renewal Package 2012, now with our new SPANISH version included in this package, is comprised of the 2 Dental Board approved courses needed for license renewal. These courses are required by law for all biennial dental license renewal cycles...
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Fundamentals of Patient Safety
Provided by: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of patient safety. You’ll learn the different types of errors, why errors occur, and how they can be prevented. You’ll understand effective and ineffective strategies for responding to errors when they do occ...
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NEOVASCULAR AMD: Approaches for Improving Visual Acuity and Reducing the Burden of Care (RT)
Provided by: ASiM
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of vision impairment in the developed world. Success of treatment is often defined in terms of preservation of remaining vision rather than improvement in vision. There are few known risk factors and evidence for the ...
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Expanding the Treatment Armamentarium for Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Pharmacist Perspectives
Provided by: ASiM
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in the United States, accounting for more than 200 000 new cancer cases and more than 150 000 cancer-related deaths each year. Non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for more than 85% of lung cancer cases, a...
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Introduction to Hospital Quality and Safety Improvement
Provided by: CMElectures
David B. Nash, MD, MBA, the Founding Dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health on the campus of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Nash is also the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy Here, he discusses the main ...
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Managing Drug Interactions with Warfarin
Provided by: The Collaborative Education Institute
Learning Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this program, pharmacists should be able to:
1. Identify factors that contribute to the high prevalence of warfarin drug interactions.
2. Describe the typical time course for warfarin drug interactions.
3. Describe mecha...
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Pain: Assessing and Treating Pain
Provided by: Wild Iris Medical Education
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
* Explain the nature of pain and its definitions, characteristics, types, and sources.
* Recall methods to assess, diagnose, intervene, evaluate, and document pain management.
* Discuss pharmaceutical, complementary, ...
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Prevention of Medical Errors
Provided by: Anderson CE
The course must include a study of rootcause analysis, error reduction and prevention, and patient safety....
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The Rheumatoid Arthritis Landscape: An Update for Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacists
Provided by: ASiM
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a disabling autoimmune disease that causes pain, stiffness, swelling, and limitation of motion in multiple joints, as well as inflammation in other organs. An estimated 1.3 million Americans are affected. Traditionally, RA has been treated with s...
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Root Cause and Systems Analysis
Provided by: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
This course introduces students to a systematic response to error called root cause analysis (RCA). The goal of RCA is to learn from adverse events and prevent them from happening in the future. The three lessons in this course explain RCA in detail, using case studies and e...
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Drug-Induced Lung Disease
Provided by: American College of Chest Physicians
Objectives
1. Describe the epidemiology and risk factors for drug-induced lung disease.
2. Review the common patterns of drug-induced lung injury.
3. Review the diagnostic evaluation of patients with suspected drug-induced lung disease.
4. Understand the pr...
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Medication Safety
Provided by: Pfiedler Enterprises
The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) 1999 report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, stated that medication-related errors were a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, accounting “for one out of every 131 outpatient deaths, and one out of 854 inpatient...
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Prescription Errors and Their Legal Consequences: Best Practices for Prevention
Provided by: Power-Pak C.E.®
This program is designed to investigate possible causes of prescription medication errors from a legal standpoint by providing the most current data available and presenting strategies to improve safety in health care. ...
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Avoiding Medication Errors with Insulin Therapy
Provided by: Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
Description:
Avoiding Medication Errors with Insulin Therapy is a knowledge-based program for pharmacists and nurses. The activity will explore the history of errors associated with insulin therapy and review the frequency with which they occur. Participants will learn how ...
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Acetaminophen and Liver Injury
Provided by: ATrain Education Inc.
Acetaminophen use and overuse with focus on signs and symptoms of liver injury, including FDA-recommended potencies for various age cohorts and at-risk populations.
When you finish this course, you will be able to:
* Identify acetaminophen and its use in combination drug...
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Human Factors and Safety
Provided by: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
This course is an introduction to the field of "human factors": how to incorporate knowledge of human behavior, especially human frailty, in the design of safe systems. You’ll explore case studies to analyze the human factors issues involved in health care situations. And ...
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Herbal Medications: An Evidence-Based Review
Provided by: NetCE
Patients, and in some cases healthcare providers as well, are not fully aware of the health risks incurred by ingestion of herbal medications, either due to their potential adverse effects or pharmacological interactions with other medications. This situation is further comp...
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Implementing Barcode Technology to Improve Medication Safety
Provided by: ProCE
Medication errors in hospital settings have been associated with high rates of adverse drug reactions and even death. Technological advances, such as barcode scanners, can help prevent medication errors, having been shown to reduce the medication error rate in an ICU setting...
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Prescribing Controlled Substances
Provided by: Medical Interactive Community
Prescribing Controlled Substances has increased dramatically over the past two decades. Along with it, there has been an increase in patient mortality and medical malpractice claims. Prescribing controlled substances presents a conundrum for physicians and practitioners: ad...
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Atypical Antipsychotics from a Primary Care Perspective
Provided by: CMEweb.com
**Objectives:**
* Summarize the most recent significant primary care medicine-related studies
* Discuss up-to-date information on all aspects of primary care, including new drugs, techniques, equipment, trials, studies, books, teaching aids, and other information pertin...
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Therapeutic Update 2012
Provided by: University Learning Systems
Session 1 – Diabetes Update: Evidence Based Approaches to the Management of Type 2 Diabetes
Session 2 – Thursday: New Drug Update - Part I
Session 3 – Friday: New Drug Update - Part II
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Improving MS Care: Perspectives from a Medical Director, Pharmacy Director, and Specialty Pharmacist
Provided by: ASiM
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a costly disease in terms of its effects on patients’ quality of life and its financial cost to society. The introduction of treatments that are designed to change the natural disease course has focused attention on the economic burden of MS. Bal...
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Fundamentals of Improvement
Provided by: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Serious errors occur at the best hospitals and clinics – despite the best efforts of talented and dedicated providers. As the Institute of Medicine (IOM) declared in 2001, in words that still ring true, “Between the health care we have and the care we could have lies not...
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Managing the Risks of Anticoagulant Therapy
Provided by: Medical Interactive Community
Primary care physicians manage many of the patients on long term anticoagulant therapy. They perform a difficult balancing act on a daily basis, weighing each patient’s risk of thromboembolism versus hemorrhage. The preponderance of current medical literature identifies un...
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OSHA and Healthcare Facilities
Provided by: NetCE
Death and disability due to unsafe or unhealthy workplaces remain America's hidden epidemic. In 2005, there were 4.2 million job-related nonfatal injuries and illnesses in the private sector alone . OSHA standards are in place in order to minimize the risks associated with v...
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Introduction to Patient Safety
Provided by: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
No one embarks on a health care career intending to harm patients. But much too often, patients die or suffer injuries from the care they receive. In this course, you’ll learn why becoming a student of patient safety is critical for everyone involved in health care today. ...
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