COPD: Current Guidelines for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Patients
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Program Overview
The newest diagnostic and treatment guidelines and the evidence to support Pulmonary Rehabilitation programs. This case-based, voice-over slides, web CME activity also gives you tools to develop an office based Pulmonary Rehabilitation program for patients to utilize at home.
Available until December 31, 2011, this activity offers:
Physicians: 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Nurses: 1.0 nursing contact hour
Pharmacists: 1.0 contact hour
Faculty Listing
Kathleen Davis, MD
Board Certified Internal Medicine
Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic
Target Audience
This course is open to all healthcare providers and is targeted to primary care providers - Physicians, PAs, NPs, RNs, and Pharmacists.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the economic and human cost of COPD in the United States and in the world.
- Identify factors that contribute to the development and exacerbation of COPD.
- Describe appropriate measures to prevent COPD.
- Apply evidence-based medical and physical therapies and guidelines for decreasing morbidity and mortality from COPD.
- Establish a best practices office or hospital-based modified pulmonary rehabilitation program including utilizing referral resources where available.
Accreditation Statement
The Foundation for Care Management ( FCM ) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Foundation for Care Management is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Colorado Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center ’s Commission on Accreditation. Approval period: July 1, 2009— June 30, 2012 . Provider # FCM -0612.
The Foundation for Care Management is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. Program # 347-000-09-008-H01-P
* This CE activity is knowledge based.
Credit Designation
FCM designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This activity is accredited for 1.0 contact hour.
This activity is accredited for 1.0 contact hour.
Grantor:
Funded through an educational grant from Boehringer Ingelheim and Pfizer.
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