Clin-eguide

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Release Date

December 2008

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Expiration Date

There is no formal expiration date for this activity.

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Accreditation Statement

Lippincott CME Institute, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

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Credit Designation Statement

The Lippincott CME Institute, Inc. designates this educational activity for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Target Audience Statement

This CME activity is intended for physicians with an interest in improving their diagnosis, management and treatment of patients.

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Statement of Needs

The United States has approximately 600,000 physicians engaged in patient care to serve its population of approximately 300 million people. The healthcare terminology SNOMED CT includes almost 80,000 concepts with the semantic category of “disorder” in their fully specified names. Collectively these 600,000 physicians therefore need to be able to manage 80,000 disorders.

Given the magnitude of this task, it is not surprising that practicing physicians have serious unmet information needs. Questions arise in as many as one in three patient visits and at least half of these questions are not answered even though answers frequently exist (~55-70%) in published resourcesi ii iii iv.

A large number of practice guidelines have been published, but studies have shown that many of them are not followedv vi vii viii ix.

On the other hand, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the American Colleges of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) have designated Medical Knowledge as a physician core competency for quality patient care. The ABMS and ACGME define competency in this area as the ability to demonstrate knowledge about established and evolving biomedical, clinical and cognate sciences and their application in patient care. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has identified five competencies for healthcare professionals, one of which includes employing evidence-based practice (integrating best research with clinical expertise and patient values for optimum care, and participate in learning and research activities to the extent feasible).

This CME program provides physicians with an online information resource (Clin-eguide) where they can find immediate answers to their pressing clinical questions through specific searches of an online information database. The database content is drawn from a variety of sources including the Clin-eguide evidence-based guidelines, the Facts & Comparisons drug information, the 5-Minute Clinical Suite, MEDLINE and the National Guideline Clearinghouse. This resource is delivered over the Internet, which is a convenient medium that allows physicians to obtain real time answers to clinical questions from wherever they are. Physicians are thus able to gain added clinical knowledge—improving their competency and, hopefully, providing better health care to their patients.

A previous incarnation of this CME program as an American Medical Association pilot program (SKOLAR MD) demonstrated that in the context of an online information resource, physicians frequently found the answer they needed and would apply it clinicallyx.

Participation in this program involves identifying a learning objective, researching the topic in the Clin-eguide product and completing an evaluation assessment questionnaire related to what was learned, how it will be applied to practice and the quality of the activity. Answers to those questions will be reviewed, assessed and utilized to improve the overall program and, specifically, the database content.

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Learning Objectives

By participating in this activity, physicians should improve their ability to diagnose, manage or treat patients. Specific learning objectives are determined by participants.

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Editorial Board Credentials/Disclosure

Lawrence V. Basso, MD, MS, BS
Division of Endocrinology, Palo Alto Medical Clinic
Director of Nuclear Medicine, Palo Alto Medical Clinic
Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Radiology (Nuclear Medicine)
Stanford University School of Medicine
(Dr. Basso has disclosed that he has no significant relationships with or financial interests in any commercial companies that pertains to this educational activity.)

Douglas B Fridsma, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Arizona State University
(Dr. Fridsma has disclosed that he has no significant relationships with or financial interests in any commercial companies that pertains to this educational activity.)

Theodore C. Sectish, M.D.
Program Director, Children's Hospital Boston
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Executive Director, Federation of Pediatric Organizations
(Dr. Sectish has disclosed that he has no significant relationships with or financial interests in any commercial companies that pertains to this educational activity.)

John Shon, MD, MS
Director, In Silico Sciences
Roche Palo Alto
(Dr. Shon has disclosed that he is an employee of Roche (Palo Alto) and that he will recuse himself from the development and planning of any activity content in which Roche products or services are discussed.)

Kelley M. Skeff, M.D., Ph.D.
George DeForest Barnett Professor of Medicine
Vice-Chair for Education
Co-Director, Stanford Faculty Development Center
Stanford University
(Dr. Skeff has disclosed that he has no significant relationships with or financial interests in any commercial companies that pertains to this educational activity.)

OTHER STAFF (LCMEI, WKH, OTHER)
All staff members in a position to directly or indirectly influence the content of this activity have disclosed that they have no significant relationships with or financial interests in any commercial companies that pertains to this educational activity.

Identification and Resolution of Conflicts of Interest
Lippincott CME Institute, Inc. has identified and resolved any faculty conflicts of interest regarding this educational activity.

Off-label Usage/Unapproved Drug or Device Discussion
This activity’s content will discuss unlabeled use of commercial products and/or investigational use of commercial products that are not yet approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for any purpose. Use of any commercial product should be undertaken only after confirmation of information by consulting the FDA-approved indications, labeling and other information.

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Method of Participation

To participate in this CME activity, physicians must register upon entering the site, login to the site using an email address and password, review the CME overview information, state a specific learning objective, conduct an online search for information related to the learning objective, review and assess the data and content gathered from that search (a minimum of two documents), complete an evaluation assessment questionnaire that assesses what the participant has learned from the activity, how the participant will use the learned information in his/her clinical practice, the activity’s overall quality and value, the activity’s fairness and balance, and suggestions for future activities.  Upon completion of the activity, physicians will be able to print their certificate immediately.

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Technical Support

For telephone support in North America, please call 1-866-591-0846. For telephone support outside of North America, please click here for a list of international support telephone numbers. For email support please click here.  For questions about the CME credit program or credit, please contact the Lippincott CME Institute at 1-215-521-8635.

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System Requirements

Clin-eguide requires the use of either Internet Explorer Version 6.0 and later or Firefox 2.0 and later. Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista are recommended; however, the application also runs on Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0. Set your screen resolution to 800 pixels by 600 pixels (or higher). To optimize Clin-eguide functionality, follow these browser setting recommendations:

  • Enable JavaScript
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  • Disable pop-up blockers (optional)

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LCMEI has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. LCMEI does not share or sell any individual's contact information, financial information, or unique identifiers to any commercial supporter, advertiser or third party without the specific permission of the individual.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or dealings with this web site, you can contact: Karen Overstreet, Executive Director ofLippincott CME Institute, at Two Commerce Square, 2001 Market Street, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19103.

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