Craig Martin, PharmD, BCPS
Dr. Martin serves as the clinical pharmacist for University of Kentucky Hospital's Antimicrobial Management Team...
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Pharmaceutical marketing clearly influences the prescribing decisions made by health professionals. Evidence suggests that this influence increases cost of care, is often underestimated and can supersede providers’ preferred drug choice. Unfortunately, most health professional students indicate that their training regarding interactions with the pharmaceutical industry is inadequate. This interactive module seeks to remedy this problem and fill this void in order to improve prescribing behaviors in physicians and other health care providers.
Cardiovascular (CV) disease remains the leading cause of mortality in the United States. Compared with age-matched persons in the general population, kidney transplant recipients are at a greater than 10-fold increased risk of CV mortality. Indeed, CV disease is responsible for approximately 50% of death with function after the first post-transplant year. Maintenance of CV health has emerged as a top priority in the long-term management of renal transplant recipients. Read More
The optimal management of patients with moderately to severely active Crohn’s disease represents a balance between minimizing the risk of medication-related serious adverse events while simultaneously sustaining long-term remission, improving patient quality of life, and ultimately modifying the long-term natural disease course. Current treatment paradigms may not be achieving these goals and may be exposing patients to increased risks. Emerging data on new therapies and novel...
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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...
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. Support your response by including current documentation explaining the need for this continuing education activity from journals,...
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Roberto Dansie, PhD
Faculty
Psychosocial Trauma Institute
Missouri School of Medicine
The International Journal of Advances in Rheumatology, a CME/CPE/CNE-accredited educational program, systematically identifies, evaluates, and places into clinical context the most important recent studies into the science and medicine of rheumatoid diseases. 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...
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