PennCME / BestPracticeCPD - A Performance Improvement and CME Resource for Primary Care Physicians and Healthcare Professionals

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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

Prevention/Risk Reduction

CME Content

Hypertension

CME Content - Hypertension

Minicases

Elderly, Hypertensive Plus Comorbidities: Not Easy to Treat Managing the patient with resistant hypertension

Hot Topics

Hypertension in Women Hypertension in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease Hypertension in Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)Hypertension in Patients with Heart Failure Hypertension in Blacks When to Treat Hypertension in the Very Elderly Hypertension in Children and Adolescents Improving blood pressure: How valuable is a team approach?What is prehypertension and what can you do about it?5 common errors in measuring blood pressure

Clinical Reviews

Treating the hypertensive patient: When, how, to what goal?Motivating patients with hypertension to make lifestyle changes and to take medications as prescribed

Simulations

72, Dizzy on Arising: Hypotension or ISH?

COPD

CME Content - COPD

Minicases

Hot Topics

Clinical Reviews

Simulations

Type 2 Diabetes

CME Content - Type 2 Diabetes

Minicases

Hot Topics

Clinical Reviews

Simulations

Performance Improvement

Working from as few as 25 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

Type 2 Diabetes

COPD

Hypertension

Prevention/Risk Reduction

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Breaking Medical News

ATS: Vitamin D May Aid COPD Pulmonary Rehab (CME/CE, with video)

DENVER (MedPage Today) -- High doses of vitamin D appear to help chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients do better in pulmonary rehabilitation programs, a researcher said here.
APA: Atypical Antipsychotic Use High in Kids (CME/CE)

HONOLULU (MedPage Today) -- Almost half of children treated as inpatients for psychotic and mood disorders are given atypical antipsychotics, researchers said here.
BREAKING NEWS: Rapid Treatment Effective for Latent TB

DENVER (MedPage Today) -- Giving two drugs 12 times over three months proved as effective a treatment for latent tuberculosis as the standard 270 doses of a single drug over nine months, a researcher reported here at the annual meeting of the American Thoracic Society.
ATS: Walk Test Predicts Death Risk in COPD (CME/CE)

DENVER (MedPage Today) -- The six-minute walk test can accurately pick out COPD patients at increased risk of death, a researcher said here.
Novel Drug Shows Benefit in Lung Fibrosis (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Physiologic benefits have been demonstrated for pirfenidone, an investigational drug, in the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, according to analyses of two randomized trials.
APA: Med Students Cram for Exams With Wikipedia (CME/CE)

HONOLULU (MedPage Today) -- About half of medical students see Wikipedia as a trustworthy source of information for helping them prepare for exams, researchers said here.
EUROPCR: Focus on Valves, BP in PCI (with audio)

PARIS (MedPage Today) -- New frontiers in percutaneous intervention for structural heart disease and hypertension are expected to generate most of the buzz at the EuroPCR meeting here.
No Higher Cardio Risk With ADHD Drugs (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- There does not appear to be an increased risk of cardiovascular events in children and teens taking attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications, researchers found.
AUA: Robotics Blamed for Spike in Prostate Surgery (CME/CE)

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Adoption of robotic technology fueled rapid growth in the use of radical prostatectomy at a time when the incidence of prostate cancer decreased, investigators reported here.
APA: Bedbugs May Trigger Anxiety (CME/CE)

HONOLULU--The media frenzy surrounding reports of bedbug infestations in New York may increase acute anxiety and mood disorders.

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(1) Our Performance Improvement CME activity in Type 2 diabetes, approved by ABIM for credit toward the Self-Evaluation of Practice Performance requirement of Maintenance of Certification;
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Did you know?

The prevalence of COPD is thought to be more than 10% among adults aged 40 years and older
Reference: Halbert, RJ, et al. Global burden of COPD: systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur Respir J 2006; 28:523.