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
Performance Improvement
Working from as few as 10 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.
Breaking Medical News
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- The consumer group Public Citizen is urging the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to regulate the work hours of resident physicians.
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(MedPage Today) -- A combination of four factors appears to significantly increase the risk of opioid dependence among patients taking prescription painkillers, researchers have found.
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(MedPage Today) -- Certain subgroups of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, particularly those who have low levels of IgG, are at risk for severe infections when treated with rituximab, French investigators found.
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STOCKHOLM (MedPage Today) -- An investigational antiplatelet -- ticagrelor (Brilinta) -- emerged as a big winner from the five-day long European Society of Cardiology congress, but the buzz here focused instead on a trio of investigational oral anticoagulants -- dabigatran, rivaroxaban, and apixaban.
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(MedPage Today) -- Wide-scale disclosure of clinical errors seems intuitively to be the ethical choice for hospitals and physicians, but researchers from the University of Washington suggest that disclosure should be decided on a case-by-case basis rather than a one-size-fits-all solution
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(MedPage Today) -- Older veterans with a history of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at increased risk for developing dementia, even if they had not been wounded in battle, researchers found.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- This year workers paid 14% more for their employer-sponsored healthcare coverage than they did last year as a bigger chunk of healthcare costs shifted from employers to employees, according to a new survey.
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(MedPage Today) -- Oxygen therapy isn't any better than regular room air to ease refractory dyspnea at the end of life, a multinational trial showed.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- A Republican governor and a Democratic senator are both attempting to exempt their respective states from following certain provisions of the new healthcare reform law, signaling what could emerge as a trend of states trying to distance themselves from the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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(MedPage Today) -- Children with a dry cough at night or wheezing during exercise are at elevated risk of respiratory adverse events during and after general anesthesia, researchers reported.
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Did you know?
The overall proportion of hospital patients who died in the hospital after a heart attack fell by 37% from 2002 to 2007. Midwestern hospitals went from the highest death rate to the lowest.
Reference: www.ahrq.gov/qual/qrdr09.htm, p. 55