Fri, 10/23/2020 - 8:30am

CME PROGRAM PLANNERS: 

Jon Oide, MD

SPEAKER:

TARGET AUDIENCE:  

Physicians, NPs and PAs - Primary Care

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:  

As a result of this CME session, participants should be better able to:

1. Review differences between palliative and hospice care.
2. Recognize when patients needing palliative and end-of-life care.
3. Determine what tools tare needed o provide effective communication.
4. Describe effective symptom management in palliative care.
5. Summarize hospice benefit, and the criteria needed for our special populations.

SERIES OBJECTIVES:

1. Identify and apply HEDIS clinical practice guidelines for prevention and screening measures and utilize KPHC tools to ensure consistent documentation and appropriate follow up care. Improve competency in management of chronic medical conditions and understand rationale for safe prescribing of medications.
2. Identify expectations regarding clinical performance, documentation,  and consistent utilization of clinical workflows to improve patient care.
3. Identify ethnic/racial and socioeconomic disparities in medical care.

STATEMENT OF DISCLOSURE:   

Janelle Minter, Kirill Berejnoi, and the planners of this activity have disclosed that they have no financial relationships with a commercial interest that constitute a relevant financial relationship.   

A commercial interest is any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests - unless the provider of clinical service is owned, or controlled by, an ACCME-defined commercial interest.

AWARD OF CME CREDIT:

CME credit will be granted to participants who attend the conference and complete the evaluation survey.

Accreditation Statement

The Sacramento Valley CME Program is accredited by the California Medical Association (CMA) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  The Sacramento Valley CME Program takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this CME activity.

Credit Designation Statement

The Sacramento Valley CME Program designates this live activity for a maximum of   1  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This credit may also be applied to the CMA Certification in Continuing Medical Education.

Nurses may report  1 hour participation toward the continuing education requirements for license renewal by the California Board of Registered Nurses.