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Healthcare represents almost 1/5 of the US economy. Surprisingly it is not the clinician or the patient who is in the driver's seat of this massive enterprise--nothing happens in the US healthcare system...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CME: 1.00
- CNE: 1.20
- CPH: 1.00
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- UNTHSC: 1.00
- Counselor: 1.00
- PT: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Nov 20, 2019
- Cost: Free
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Twenty-five million Americans rely on implantable medical devices, including pacemakers, defibrillators, insulin pumps, and deep brain stimulators for important, life-sustaining functions. As remote monitoring...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 0.60
- CPH: 0.50
- UNTHSC: 0.50
- Physicians: 0.50
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Nov 1, 2019
- Cost: Free
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This presentation will provide an overview of the leading causes and trends in maternal morbidity and mortality in Texas. Key definitions of terms will be discussed as well as leading causes of maternal death...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- CPH: 1.00
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- UNTHSC: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- Counselor: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Oct 31, 2019
- Cost: Free
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The birth of a child with ambiguous genitalia poses multiple dilemma for healthcare providers and parents. This presentation will describe the difference among differences of sexual differentiation (DSD) and...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- UNTHSC: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- Counselor: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Sep 23, 2019
- Cost: Free
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For years we have been under a flawed Sustained Growth Rate (SGR) payment system that was replaced in 2015 with a new law, the Medicare and CHIPS Reauthorization Act (MACRA). This law has major mandated...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- CPH: 1.00
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- UNTHSC: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- Counselor: 1.00
- PT: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Sep 21, 2019
- Cost: Free
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Healthy People 2010 defines health literacy as “The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- CPH: 1.00
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- UNTHSC: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- Counselor: 1.00
- PT: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Sep 18, 2019
- Cost: Free
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The fastest growing segment of our population is the 'old-old' or people over 85. The majority of these people have chronic conditions and about half of them have dementing illness. A large number...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- CPH: 1.00
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- UNTHSC: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- Counselor: 1.00
- PT: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Sep 12, 2019
- Cost: Free
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A Bedside Swallow Evaluation (BSE) has definite limitations and aspiration cannot be confirmed or ruled out without Modified Barium Swallow Study (MBSS) (Swigert,1998). Approximately 40% of the patients who...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- UNTHSC: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- PT: 1.00
- IACET: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Sep 8, 2019
- Cost: Free
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Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is the most common cause of anemia in humans. In spite of the frequency with which it is encountered in clinical practice, patients are often faced with clinicians who are...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- UNTHSC: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Aug 23, 2019
- Cost: Free
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Maintaining a healthy weight is often cited as one of the most important factors in preventing chronic disease. Current research reveals that prevention of chronic disease is a complex issue and the...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- CPH: 1.00
- UNTHSC: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Aug 14, 2019
- Cost: Free
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Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment is a safe, effective, and low-cost modality to address many common problems in primary care. However, many practicing osteopathic physicians tend to underutilize this unique...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- UNTHSC: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- PT: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Aug 11, 2019
- Cost: Free
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- UNTHSC: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- Counselor: 1.00
- PT: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Aug 9, 2019
- Cost: Free
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- UNTHSC: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Aug 7, 2019
- Cost: Free
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Participants will have the opportunity to learn about and use demonstration devices of newer asthma and COPD inhaler devices in ‘skills lab-type’ atmosphere. Educational techniques to teach...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 0.60
- TSBSWE: 0.50
- Physicians: 0.50
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Jul 31, 2019
- Cost: Free
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Physicians are trained to assess, evaluate, prevent, treat and heal. As we graduate from medical school we recite the Hippocratic Oath subjecting ourselves to the premise of “Do No Harm”. From our...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- UNTHSC: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- PT: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Jun 9, 2019
- Cost: Free
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Patients are responding well to cancer therapies with more patients being cured with treatment. As patients continue to do well it is important for primary care doctors to understand particular nuances of...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- UNTHSC: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: May 10, 2019
- Cost: Free
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Statistics is a powerful tool that allow us to describe what was observed and to infer conclusions about a larger population. Statistics are used in almost all fields of research and practice to provide...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- CPH: 1.00
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- UNTHSC: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- Counselor: 1.00
- PT: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: May 10, 2019
- Cost: Free
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Dementia can be caused by nearly forty different diseases and conditions. Currently there are four clinical dementia syndromes accounting for 90% of all cases of progressive cognitive impairment. The four...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- UNTHSC: 1.00
- Counselor: 1.00
- TNA: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: May 3, 2019
- Cost: Free
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Join a nationally acclaimed cardiologist, Dr. Paul Bhella, as he leads a panel discussion that seeks to unlock the complexities of stroke prevention...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CPE: 1.00
- CNE: 1.20
- UNTHSC: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Apr 10, 2019
- Cost: Free
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Presentation Summary
Screening helps identify cancer or pre-cancer in patients who have no symptoms of the disease. Colorectal cancer screening is one of the most effective tools used to...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- UNTHSC: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Mar 8, 2019
- Cost: Free
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In the United States about 3.5 million people have HCV. According to the CDC, around one half of those do not know they are infected(1). This presentation will discuss important developments and strategies in...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- UNTHSC: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Jan 26, 2019
- Cost: Free
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Due to trauma or disease process, approximately 1.7 million Americans have lost a limb. For many of these persons, a prosthesis can significantly improve quality of life. This presentation will explore the...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 0.60
- TSBSWE: 0.50
- UNTHSC: 0.00
- Physicians: 0.50
- PT: 0.50
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Jan 26, 2019
- Cost: Free
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Several prescription drugs are currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat people who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Treating the symptoms of Alzheimer's can...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CPE: 1.00
- CNE: 1.20
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- Counselor: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Jan 20, 2019
- Cost: Free
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Numerous studies and reports document the urgent need to improve care for patients with chronic pain. The needs of all health care clinicians to better understand the assessment and management of chronic pain...
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Jan 1, 2019
- Cost: Free
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9.3% of the US population has been estimated to have diabetes, with approximately 28% of those individuals being undiagnosed. The rate of diabetes prevalence has increased at an alarming rate over the...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 0.60
- CPH: 0.50
- TSBSWE: 0.50
- Physicians: 0.50
- PT: 0.50
- IACET: 0.50
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Dec 15, 2017
- Cost: Free
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According to recent reports, medication nonadherence - also referred to as MNA – impacts approximately 187 million patients in the United States, or 25% of the entire U.S. population. Medication...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 0.60
- CPH: 0.50
- TSBSWE: 0.50
- Physicians: 0.50
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Dec 9, 2017
- Cost: Free
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Literature has shown that prescribers receive little education on the treatment of pain resulting in less effective pain treatment with worse outcomes. Attendees will learn the evidence-based analysis of the...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- CPH: 1.00
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- Counselor: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Nov 23, 2018
- Cost: Free
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This program was developed to provide the audience with an overview of the progress in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Healthcare providers who do not typically work with or diagnosis...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- Counselor: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Nov 23, 2018
- Cost: Free
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How does the caregiver account for why the person with disease changes from day to day and minute to minute? This presentation will provide information on the physiological and sensory changes that occur...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- Counselor: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Nov 23, 2018
- Cost: Free
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This presentation will cover how easily a cognitive assessment can be performed during the Medicare Annual Wellness visit. Visit the algorithm on the Alzheimer's Association website - Faculty
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- Counselor: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Nov 23, 2018
- Cost: Free
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Can you reduce your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease? If so, how? Can we use the word "prevention" when talking about a disease that we still don’t know the cause? What about lifestyle changes?...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- Counselor: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Nov 23, 2018
- Cost: Free
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20% of all falls cause broken bones, head injuries or other serious injuries and over 700,000 people a year are hospitalized for fall related injuries. (1) This activity will discuss how to identify those at...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- PT: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Nov 23, 2018
- Cost: Free
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Recognizing dementia can be challenging for healthcare providers. Even more so is differentiating the different types of dementia in order to guide management of course of therapy. Improving the diagnosis of...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CPE: 2.00
- CNE: 2.40
- Physicians: 2.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Nov 7, 2018
- Cost: Free
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Presentation Summary
Multiple stakeholder groups have advocated for a managed care solution for providing coordinated, quality care for children with disabilities over 3 prior legislative cycles (6...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- PT: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Nov 2, 2018
- Cost: Free
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This presentation will review the importance of advance healthcare planning and of the discussions needed prior to completing directives. It will also include a brief overview of the main documents currently...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- TSBSWE: 0.10
- Physicians: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Sep 12, 2018
- Cost: Free
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CPE: 1.00
- CNE: 2.40
- TSBSWE: 2.00
- Physicians: 2.00
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Type: PDF
- Expires: Jul 21, 2018
- Cost: Free
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To measure improvement, practices must begin tracking metrics. This eLearning activity will explore the types of metrics health care practices can collect to measure patient satisfaction, quality...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 0.60
- CPH: 0.50
- Physicians: 0.50
- TSBSWE: 0.50
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Jul 13, 2018
- Cost: Free
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The implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) has emerged from clinical trials as “the treatment of choice” vs. medications alone for potentially lethal ventricular arrhythmias. However, cardiac...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Jun 28, 2018
- Cost: Free
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is responsible for one death every four minutes in the United States and is now the third leading cause of death. Even though COPD is common and usually progressive...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- PT: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: May 1, 2018
- Cost: Free
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In 2003 the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) developed a tool to monitor adverse event rates in hospitals in an effort to improve patient safety. The trigger tool uses clues to identify adverse...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- TSBSWE: 1.00
- Physicians: 1.00
- PT: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Apr 20, 2018
- Cost: Free
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For the patient with COPD, it is seldom the only illness diagnosed. The existence of co-morbid conditions and the severity of COPD symptoms greatly the impact the mortality and quality of life for the COPD...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CPE: 1.00
- CNE: 1.20
- Physicians: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Feb 23, 2018
- Cost: Free
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is responsible for one death every four minutes in the United States and is now the third leading cause of death. COPD is also responsible for a significant number...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CNE: 1.20
- Physicians: 1.00
- PT: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Feb 3, 2018
- Cost: Free
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Non-valvular atrial fibrillation is a condition experienced by millions of Americans which puts them at risk for potential for the formation of blood clots in the heart that can cause a cerebrovascular...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CPE: 1.25
- CNE: 1.40
- Physicians: 1.25
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Jan 21, 2018
- Cost: Free
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One out of 3 women and one out of 5 men will suffer an OP fracture in their lifetime. It is important in our aging population to know who to screen and how to evaluate and treat a patient for...
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Activity Details
- Credit Amounts:
- CPE: 1.00
- CNE: 1.20
- Physicians: 1.00
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Type: Video Webcast
- Expires: Jan 6, 2018
- Cost: Free
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