CME Content
Here are challenging ideas that can change your care of patients -- or confirm that you are doing the right thing. You will find a spectrum of multimedia activities, including interactive case studies
Prevention/Risk Reduction
CME Content - Prevention/Risk Reduction
Hot Topics
Bring More Patients into Wellness Care: The Affordable Care ActScreening for Osteoporosis: Who, When, How—or Maybe NotScreening for Breast Cancer: Who? When? Why?Screening for Cervical Cancer: Who? When? Why?Screening for Colorectal Cancer: Who? When? Why?Screening for Prostate Cancer: Who? When? Why?
Hypertension
CME Content - Hypertension
Hot Topics
Hypertension in WomenHypertension in Patients with Cardiovascular DiseaseHypertension in Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)Hypertension in Patients with Heart FailureHypertension in BlacksWhen to Treat Hypertension in the Very ElderlyHypertension in Children and Adolescents Improving blood pressure: How valuable is a team approach?What is prehypertension and what can you do about it?5 common errors in measuring blood pressure
COPD
Type 2 Diabetes
CME Content - Type 2 Diabetes
Hot Topics
Common Errors in T2D Management: Picking the Right Oral MedicationCommon Errors in T2D Management: Misuse of Insulin SecretagoguesCommon Errors in T2D Management: Pushing for Weight Loss—But Not Too MuchCommon Errors in T2D Management: Metformin and Renal FailureCommon Errors in T2D Management: Delaying the Start of InsulinCommon Errors in T2D Management: Overuse of premixed insulinsCommon Errors in T2D Management: Failure to Distinguish Between T2DM and T1DMCommon Errors in T2D Management: Problems with Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring
Performance Improvement
Working from as few as 25 patient charts on a given clinical topic, you can earn up to 20 credits and measure the improvement in care of your patients with chronic diseases. Plus earn a Medicare bonus!
Topic Resource Overviews
Involve Your Staff & Patients
Gain valuable ideas for teaming with staff and patients to improve effectiveness and efficiency of care. Explore their resource centers -- and a "new" concept for a more satisfying practice.
What's New
Prevention / Risk Management:
Breaking Medical News
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(MedPage Today) -- Physicians in the Twitterverse may want to start paying attention to their Klout score, which measures a person’s influence on various social media outlets.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- The National Institutes of Health unveiled its new Alzheimer's prevention plan, and an FDA panel endorsed the first-ever entirely at-home HIV test.
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(MedPage Today) -- Rats fed a sugary diet forgot how to run a maze they had previously mastered, but the effect was countered by omega-3 fatty acid supplements. Also this week: new hope for Fanconi anemia.
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(MedPage Today) -- Having the results of a personalized genetic test did not drive patients to utilize potentially costly follow-up healthcare services, a study from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found.
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(MedPage Today) -- This week's topics include stress testing after heart procedures, coffee and mortality, air pollution and markers of inflammation, and laxative-free colonoscopy.
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(MedPage Today) -- The next generation of drug-eluting stents that do a disappearing act, whether with a biodegradable polymer or an entirely bioabsorbable platform, appears to be holding up to conventional stents over the short term.
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(MedPage Today) -- Targeting the various aspects of the metabolic syndrome may provide a means for preventing the development of diabetic neuropathy, authors of a review suggested.
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PARIS (MedPage Today) -- A percutaneous device that walls off part of the left ventricle to help failing hearts appears to have a big impact on outcomes, pilot study results showed.
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CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- British patients followed after starting on glitazone drugs for type 2 diabetes were significantly more likely to develop bladder cancer than those taking sulfonylurea agents.
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ATLANTA (MedPage Today) -- With "baby boomers" believed to account for 75% of the hepatitis C infected population in the U.S. -- the CDC wants everyone ages 47 to 67 be tested for infection.
Latest Poll
William Marshall, 45, is being evaluated for cardiovascular risk, and has a Framingham risk score of 9%. Which one of the following is most likely to lower his risk to 3%?
Did you know?
U.S. hospitals spent $83 billion in 2008 caring for people with diabetes. Nearly one of every five hospitalizations involved a person with diabetes. This amount is 23 percent of what hospitals spent overall to treat all conditions in 2008.
Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HCUP, Statistical Brief #93: Hospital Stays for Patients with Diabetes, 2008
