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Advances in the Management of
Gout:
Issues and Answers
This activity consists of
didactic lectures by rheumatology experts, who discuss how to
address challenges and allow for rheumatology clinicians to best
consider the latest data and advances in diagnosis and treatment
for chronic, advanced gout. Additional clinicians who may be
interested in this educational activity include podiatrists,
nephrologists, primary care, and allied healthcare professionals
(physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurses) who
diagnose, treat, and manage patients with gout. Expires
2/10/2013
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Managing Bladder Functions of Your Patients as They
Age
This enduring activity is designed to address issues of
urinary incontinence and other urinary conditions in aging
patients, including the safety risk of falls as a result of
incontinence and nocturia and unique communication and therapy
considerations of older adults. Expires 9/29/12
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Male Lower
Urinary Tract Symptoms: BPH vs OAB?
This activity focuses on evaluating male lower urinary
tract symptoms for differential diagnosis of OAB versus BPH.
Expires 5/15/2012
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Take 2 Minutes to Quit: Smoking Cessation Brief
Intervention
This activity is designed for all healthcare professionals, whose
scope of practice includes patients who use tobacco and who are
interested in increasing smoking quit rates within their healthcare
setting. Expires 9/27/2012
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Do Ask, Do Tell: The 5 A's for
Successful Smoking Cessation
This online activity is designed to guide clinicians through the
evidence-based methods for addressing smoking with patients (via
the "5 A's" framework), covering key points and practical tips to
overcome common barriers. Downloadable tools are also provided to
help clinicians implement the 5 A's in clinical practice.
Expires 12/31/2012
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Quick Quizzes: Help Mental Health
Patients Quit Smoking
This series of short, interactive case-based activities walks
learners through common clinical scenarios with several
decision-making points around the care of patients presenting with
nicotine dependence and comorbid mental health
disorders. Expires 12/31/2012
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CS2day Performance
Improvement
The innovative format provides self-directed learning aimed at
helping you locate gaps in your practice. During the
self-assessment process, you'll locate these gaps, identify a plan
for change and improvement and implement them into your
practice. Expires 7/9/2012
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Tackling Smoking Cessation in
Patients with Psychiatric Disorders: Can We? Should
We?
This activity is designed to provide a discussion of the issues and
barriers physicians face in assisting patients who have
psychopathology with smoking cessation efforts. Utilizing short
clinical case scenarios and slides to highlight key teaching
points, the discussion focuses on helping physicians overcome
barriers to applying the most relevant clinical guideline
recommendations. The activity will also focus on managing
patients through multiple quit attempts and assisting patients who
have successfully quit to remain tobacco free. Expires
12/31/2012
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Approaching Smoking Cessation in a
Patient With Alcohol Use Disorder
This interactive, case-based activity
walks learners through an unfolding clinical scenario with several
decision-making points around the management of a patient
presenting with nicotine dependence and comorbid alcohol use
disorder. Key points and practical tips on overcoming common
barriers will be presented. Downloadable tools are also provided to
help clinicians in their practice. Expires 12/31/2012
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Motivational
Interviewing in Healthcare: What Is It and Why Use
It?
Introduces the concept of motivational
interviewing and its value in helping patients who smoke to
consider a quit attempt, as well as its application to other areas
of health behavior change. Includes video demonstrations.
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Treating Nicotine Dependence Among
Patients with Mental Health or Addictive Disorders
Dispels common misperceptions and summarizes the
evidence on assisting patients with mental health and addictive
disorders to quit smoking, including patients with depression,
anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, substance use disorders,
schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. Practical issues such as
intervention timing and collaborating with other treatment team
members are also discussed.
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Debates and Directions in Fibromyalgia:
Recognizing Signs and Selecting the Appropriate
Paths
A series of four modules, including an advanced,
interactive differential diagnosis tutor to help primary care
physicians recognize, diagnose, treat and manage fibromyalgia.
Expires 10/31/2012
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