Advances in Skin & Wound Care

Release Date
Credit Hours
Target Audience
Statement of Needs
Faculty/Staff Credentials and Disclosure
Learning Objectives
Accreditation
Method of Participation
Evaluation Methods
Participation Expiration Date

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Release Date

Nine individual CME/CE activities are available through the journal each year.

Credit Hours

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

This journal provides for an annual offering of up to 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

This activity will award up to 2 ANCC contact hours and is categorized as an AACN CERP category O and Texas Board of Nurse Examiners type 1 activity. Your Nursing Institute-issued CE contact hours are valid wherever you reside.

Target Audience

This CME/CE activity is intended for physicians and nurses with an interest in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic wounds and burns.

Statement of Needs

Chronic wounds -- including pressure ulcers, venous ulcers, and diabetic ulcers -- are a serious health concern. Millions of Americans are affected each year, with total costs of their care reaching the billions of dollars. Once a wound heals, which may take years for some patients, the chances of recurrence are high. Venous ulcers, for example, have recurrence rates approaching 70%.

Management of patients with wounds can present a considerable challenge for several reasons: (1) the lack of an evidence-based model of care; (2) the explosion of products used to treat wounds; (3) the lack of common language for describing and documenting wounds; and (4) the superficial nature of education n skin and wound care in medical and nursing schools.

It is important, therefore, for skin and wound care practitioners to be able to turn to credible, authoritative sources of information on skin and wound management. Advances in Skin & Wound Care is now entering its 21^st year of successfully providing this essential information to practitioners.

Currently, no journal dedicated to skin and wound care provides continuing education articles for its readers on a regular basis. Yet research done by the editorial staff of Advances in Skin & Wound Care indicates that practitioners are very interested in earning continuing education credit this way. Starting in 2001, Advances in Skin & Wound Care began to offer a continuing education article in each issue to provide practitioners with a distance learning opportunity -- an optimal educational model for busy practitioners -- that will assist them in understanding the core of wound management.

Richard "Sal" Salcido, MD, the journal's Editor-in-Chief, is an acknowledged authority on wound management, as is the journal's Clinical Consultant, Cathy Thomas Hess, BSN, RN, CWOCN, and Clinical Associate Editors Elizabeth A. Ayello, PhD, RN, APRN,BC, CWOCN, FAPWCA, FAAN, and R. Gary Sibbald, BSc, MD, FRCP (Med) (Derm), FAPWCA, MEd. They will work with the journal's expert Editorial Advisory Board to select papers for the continuing education activity. These papers will focus on synthesizing existing research and accepted practice standards into key recommendations for day-to-day management of patients with wounds.

In addition, the editorial staff of the journal will conduct several surveys of the journal's readership and of conference attendees each year to determine topics of interest for future issues. Searches of the current literature will also be done periodically. The results of the surveys and literature searches will be shared with Dr. Salcido, Ms. Hess, Dr. Ayello and the board to assist them in topic selection and to ensure that the journal is meeting the informational needs of its readership.

Faculty/Staff Credentials and Disclosure

Faculty and author affiliations and financial disclosure information are procured and printed prior to each CME article in each issue.

Other LCMEI/WKH/Other staff financial disclosure information is procured and printed prior to each CME article in each issue.

Learning Objectives

Learning objectives for each CME activity are procured and printed prior to each CME article in each issue.

Accreditation

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

Method of Participation

To earn continuing medical education (CME) credit, follow these instructions:

Read the designated CME article. Take the test, recording your answers on the test answers section (Section B) of the CE enrollment form. Each question has only one correct answer.
Complete the registration information (Section A) and course evaluation (Section C).
Mail completed test with registration fee ($20.00 for physicians) by the stated expiration deadline to: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, CE Group, 333 7^th Avenue, 20^th Floor, New York, NY 10001. Make checks payable to Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
The passing score for tests is 70%. Only the first entry will be considered for credit. If you pass, a CME certificate will be mailed to you within 6 to 8 weeks of receipt of your answer form.
For questions about PHYSICIAN test results or certificates, contact The Lippincott CME Institute, Inc., Two Commerce Square, 2001 Market Street, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19103; 1-215-521-8635.

Evaluation Methods

Eight evaluation assessment questions will be included as part of the CME Quiz. These questions ensure that we determine that each activity's learning objectives have been met, that the activity was of educational value to the target audience and was unbiased, and offer participants a method of feedback.

Participation Expiration Date

Each individual CME activity will expire within one year of the activity’s release date.