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CML – Growth, a CME-accredited educational program, systematically identifies, evaluates, and places into clinical context the most important recent studies into the science and medicine of growth. It provides rapid access for busy specialists to a critical and clinically relevant review of the developments that will have most impact on their day-to-day practice and is designed to provide management options for clinicians to allow them to better diagnose and treat patients with...
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Despite improvements in SCI medical management, rehospitalization rates remain high. It has been estimated that 32% of medical costs in the first 2 years after injury was directly attributed to secondary medical complications and patients with SCI still present a high prevalence of secondary complications many years after their rehabilitation.
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Sara Salles, DO
Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
College of Medicine
University of...
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Secondhand smoke, also known as environmental tobacco smoke or passive smoke, is a mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of tobacco products and the smoke exhaled by smokers. Approximately 50,000 persons die annually in the United States due to secondhand smoke exposure (Cal EPA, 2005; USDHHS, 2006). Secondhand smoke is associated with at least 46,000 coronary heart disease deaths (California EPA, 2005; NIH, 1999; USDHHS, 2006) and 3,400 lung cancer deaths annually among adult...
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Ellen Hahn, DNS, RN
Alumni Professor
Colleges of Nursing and Public Health
University of Kentucky, Director
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As the need for organ transplantation increases and the waiting list continues to grow, successful utilization and transplantation of as many available donor organs as possible has become paramount. While short-term outcomes have continued to improve and the incidence of acute rejection episodes has decreased, there has been only modest improvement in longer term outcomes, due to a variety of factors. Clearly, the greater use of extended criteria donors (ECD) and donation after cardiac death...
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Lean management is increasingly popular in healthcare but there is a shortage of information applying lean management to primary care clinics. Through this training, primary care providers can expect to improve patient flow and increase their capacity to see patients. There is a general gap in Lean involving leadership in that they don't understand or perform their role - without leadership, Lean will not work.
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Michael Hoseus, MA
Executive Director, Center for Quality People & Organizations
President, Lean Culture...
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Medicare has authorized Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) to review Medicare claims for a three-year period with the goal of identifying billing and coding errors and collecting fees and penalties for incorrect claims. The evaluation and management code assigned by the physician during an encounter and supporting documentation are essential to accurate coding and billing and appropriate reimbursement. Penalties created by the RAC audits may jeopardize the viability of safety net providers....
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Sherry Thomas, CCP, CCP-AS
CEO/Director of Education
PHIA/Medical Staff SOS, Inc.
Louisville, KY
502-473-8806 x 204
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Obesity has become a national issue. Kentucky, specifically, ranks in the top 10 states for obesity and sedentary lifestyle, in addition to diabetes. Type 2 diabetes used to be “adult onset diabetes”; however, in recent years, diabetes in adolescents is on the rise, primarily due to obesity. Health care professionals need to recognize the problem, identify children and adolescents at risk, and understand appropriate treatments.
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Holly Divine, PharmD, CGP, CDE
Associate Professor
Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience Coordinator
Community Pharmacy...
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As the United States becomes a more racially and ethnically diverse nation, health care systems and providers need to respond to patients’ varied perspectives, values, and behaviors about health and well-being. Failure to understand and manage social and cultural differences may have significant health consequences for minority groups in particular.
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Roberto Dansie, PhD
Faculty
Psychosocial Trauma Institute
Missouri School of Medicine
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The inability to absorb certain sugars affects the lives of patients not only within Kentucky but also in the US and beyond. The symptoms that present themselves for these patients can be misdiagnosed due to the challenge of detecting them properly. The lack of information available concerning identifying and treating this condition prolongs the risk of misdiagnosis. This course will give the participant information concerning certain malabsorption and tolerance of certain...
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Jay A. Perman, MD
President
University of Maryland
Baltimore, MD
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Social and clinical advances in the management of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) continue to occur across the globe. Significant accomplishments include reductions in HIV-associated morbidity and mortality, introduction of less complex medications and dosing regimens, more thorough understandings of the processes surrounding HIV infection, and development of stronger social program infrastructures. As efforts to combat HIV...
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Brian S. Murphy, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics and Division of Infectious Diseases
University of...
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