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Quality Improvement in Public Health: A Focus for Local Boards of Health

Physicians do not receive adequate public health training during their formal medical education to prepare them to serve on local boards of health. They under-utilize or are not aware of many of the resources...

WHY ADVOCACY? WHY ME?: Make your Voice Count!

Physicians do not receive adequate public health training during their formal medical education to prepare them to serve on local boards of health. They under-utilize or are not aware of many of the resources...

Public Health 101: A Guide for Physician Public Health Board Members

Physicians do not receive adequate public health training during their formal medical education to prepare them to serve on local boards of health. They under-utilize or are not aware of many of the resources...

The Role of the Ambulatory Care Pharmacist in the Management of COPD and Transition of Care in a Community Hospital

COPD is the 3rd leading cause of death in the US. $50 billion was spent in 2010 - 70% attributed to exacerbations. Each COPD admission/readmission costs approximately $8,400-$11,100. Barriers to quality...

COPD Guidelines

The GOLD workgroup released updated treatment guidelines for COPD in the spring of 2019. In order to provide Kentuckians with optimal COPD treatment outcomes, practitioners across the state should be able to...

Mabry Syndrome

Mabry Syndrome is a condition characterized by intellectual disability, distinctive facial features, increased serum levels of the enzyme called alkaline phosphatase and other signs and symptoms. People with...

Reducing Stigma: The Past, Present and Future of Recovery

Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for...

Tips for Prescribing/Dispensing Controlled Substances Within the Law

Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for...

Module Two: The Biopsychosocial Aspects of Chronic Pain

The geographic variation throughout Appalachia is poorly understood, creating a tremendous need for regionally sensitive collaborative efforts in professional continuing education with an emphasis on...

Module Three: Risk Management

The geographic variation throughout Appalachia is poorly understood, creating a tremendous need for regionally sensitive collaborative efforts in professional continuing education with an emphasis on...

Module Four: Chronic Pain History and Shared Decision Making Approaches

The geographic variation throughout Appalachia is poorly understood, creating a tremendous need for regionally sensitive collaborative efforts in professional continuing education with an emphasis on...

Module Six: Approaches and Tools in Managing Patients on Controlled Medications

The geographic variation throughout Appalachia is poorly understood, creating a tremendous need for regionally sensitive collaborative efforts in professional continuing education with an emphasis on...

Module Seven: Practice Enhancement in Managing Patients with Chronic Pain Through a Team-based Approach

The geographic variation throughout Appalachia is poorly understood, creating a tremendous need for regionally sensitive collaborative efforts in professional continuing education with an emphasis on...

Module Eight: General Drug Information on Opioid Therapy

The geographic variation throughout Appalachia is poorly understood, creating a tremendous need for regionally sensitive collaborative efforts in professional continuing education with an emphasis on...

Module Five: Examination and Diagnostic Testing in Patients with Chronic Pain

The geographic variation throughout Appalachia is poorly understood, creating a tremendous need for regionally sensitive collaborative efforts in professional continuing education with an emphasis on...

Medication Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: The Evidence Base and Common Pitfalls and Myths

Medication treatment for Opioid Use Disorder remains poorly understood such that few affected individuals ever receive these effective FDA-approved medications.

Providers need to know how treatment...

Substance Use Disorders in Your Medical Practice: Treatment and Referral Updates

Because of inadequate provision of addiction treatment in physician practices and referrals to appropriate specialty care, health care professionals need education on the nature of addiction as a chronic brain...

The Opioid Crisis

Addiction to prescription opioids and heroin has become a national emergency. This module provides clinicians with a description of the epidemic and its effective treatments.

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Screening/Testing for HCV

The USPSTF recommends screening for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in persons at high risk for infection. The USPSTF also recommends offering 1-time screening for HCV infection to adults born between 1945...

Post-HCV Treatment Follow-up and Reinfection

Virologic cure of hepatitis C does not mean a cure of advanced liver disease. Ongoing evaluation and management of liver disease is indicated for cirrhotic patients after achieving SVR. Non-hepatologist HCV...

Hep C: Issues in PWID

Hepatitis C treatment is often withheld from PWID due to concerns regarding adherence, perceived lack of efficacy, and perceived risk of reinfection. PWID are a difficult to reach population leading to...

HCV Screening and Linkage to Care: The Norton Experience

Current CDC guidelines recommend universal screening of patients born between 1945 and 1965 as well as other patients based on risk.

All eligible patients are not being screened and patients with...

Heroin And Fentanyl: Lab Perspective

Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for...

Navigating Patients through Cancer Screening and Diagnostic Testing

Screening is a procedure that takes place before the patient has symptoms or shows any sign of disease. Some screening exams can be uncomfortable, and just the idea of being tested can cause anxiety in a...

Community Needs Assessment for Cancer Navigators

Communities are typically defined by a geographic area; however, they can also be based on shared interests or characteristics such as religion, race, age, or occupation
People within a community come...

Process of Navigation

Patient navigators guide patients through cancer care, which is often very complicated. The navigator guides the patient using a process, based on a community needs assessment that improves the patient...

Financial Issues in Cancer Navigation for Appalachia

Patients in Appalachia face unique barriers to accessing and navigating complex health care delivery systems due to distance from care and life circumstances. There is a shortage of trained patient...

Communication in Patient Navigation in Appalachia

The goal of this module is to provide you with the information on how to improve your personal communication skills in the performance of patient navigation in Appalachia. We will talk about enhancing...

Culturally Effective Patient Navigation in Appalachia

Health professionals and others providing care and support to the Appalachian population need to have knowledge and appreciation of the Appalachian culture.  Training is needed to increase awareness of...

Therapeutic Use of KASPER and Urine Drug Screening and Testing in Clinical Practice

Gabapentin: Possible Misuse Leads to Scheduling in Kentucky

Concerns about abuse and diversion of gabapentin have been raised in many states, with some states considering listing gabapentin as a “drug of concern,” reportable to their prescription drug...

Policy Solutions to the Opioid Crisis: What Have We Learned?

Opioid use disorder is an ongoing epidemic and states are enacting a range of policies to address the crisis. Health care providers need to understand how the policies impact practice and patient outcomes.

Lung Cancer Patient Navigation

Patients in Appalachia face unique barriers to accessing and navigating complex health care delivery systems due to distance from care and life circumstances. There is a shortage of trained patient...

Anti Xa Reversal / Adverse Effects and Dangers of Florquinolone use

Fluoroquinolones are one of the most commonly prescribed antibiotics for infections such as pneumonia and urinary tract infections, however, this drug class carries several serious warnings and adverse effects...

Antibiotic Stewardship: Regulations, Mandates, and Use of National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)

Improved awareness of components of antimicrobial stewardship programs and knowledge of resources available to providers and facilities to meet mandates and conform to regulations & Education on...

Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines and Strategies for Implementing Antibiotic Stewardship Programs in Healthcare Settings

Culture stewardship is a pivotal component to appropriate diagnosis and treatment plans. A multidisciplanary approach and staying adept on the newest literature available is essential for optimal patient...

Interprofessional Collaboration – Why is it Important?

Antibiotic stewardship has primarily involved the physician and pharmacist; however, the overuse and misuse of antibiotics requires interprofessional collaboration and teamwork that includes physician,...

Bugonomics: Cost of Unnecessary Antibiotic Use

Inappropriate and over use of antibiotics lead to antimicrobial resistance, which is a public health threat. 

Diagnostic Stewardship: A Key to Decreasing Unnecessary Antimicrobial Use

Unnecessary testing can lead to unnecessary treatments. Improving testing of infectious disease syndromes can be a powerful tactic to improve the use of antibiotics.

The Overlooked and Often Underutilized Role of Nurses in Building Success Antibiotic Stewardship Programs

Antimicrobial resistance is a global, national, statewide, and facility-wide crisis. Patients with multi-drug resistant infections will continue to require expert nursing care in the hospital, long-term care...

Infectious Disease Management: Pneumonia and Bacteremia

Appropriate antibiotic selection and duration of therapy is an evolving concept as resistance patterns shift and new evidence regarding appropriate duration of therapy emerges. We would like to have...

Non-AD Dementias: Dementia with Lewy Bodies, Frontotemporal Dementia and Vascular Dementia, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Research Advances

High Intensity Euglycemia Therapy for Calcium Channel Blocker Toxicity

The implementation of a new high dose insulin protocol for calcium channel blocker and beta blocker overdose is needed as this will be a new therapy modality at our institution. Our goal is to increase...

PEEER Model

Health care professionals are trained to communicate within their own profession, but not among multiple professions.  Although there is an emerging understanding of, and training for, interprofessional...

Update in Antiplatelet therapy

Due to the advancement of drug eluting stent technology and the development and publication of randomized controlled trials involving newer agents such as ticagrelor, prasugrel, and cangrelor, the landscape of...

Podcast 2: Creating the Pain Treatment Plan

Older adults experience a higher incidence of persistent pain across chronic disease trajectories and at end-of-life. Data obtained from the NHANES survey indicates that older adults are almost twice as likely...

Podcast 3: Managing Older Patients on Opioid Analgesics

Older adults experience a higher incidence of persistent pain across chronic disease trajectories and at end-of-life. Data obtained from the NHANES survey indicates that older adults are almost twice as likely...

Podcast 4: Addiction Medicine: A Primer

Older adults experience a higher incidence of persistent pain across chronic disease trajectories and at end-of-life. Data obtained from the NHANES survey indicates that older adults are almost twice as likely...

Keeping Kidneys Safe: Pharmacist's Role in Counseling High-Risk Patients on NSAID Use to Prevent Kidney Injury

An estimated 36 million Americans use over-the-counter analgesics on a daily basis. These pain relievers include NSAIDs such as ibuprofen and naproxen and are widely available in large quantities not only in...

Facilitating Small Interprofessional Learning Groups

Research has established the effectiveness of small group learning in health professions education as an active learning strategy that can enhance student motivation, improve communication skills, and...

Introduction to Radon

Lung cancer is almost totally preventable by eliminating firsthand and secondhand smoking and radon exposure. Exposure to radon, a colorless, odorless gas from the decomposition of uranium in the ground, is...

Evaluating Population Health Management

In order to effectively and efficiently practice Population Health Management, health care providers must be able to evaluate the processes of Population Health Management in order to make return-on-investment...

Cultivating a Culture of Change and Patient Engagement

In order to effectively and efficiently practice Population Health Management, health care providers must know the levers of change necessary to achieve Population Health Management, and  possess the...

The Quality Improvement Journey: Implementing a Quality Improvement Project in PHM

In order to effectively and efficiently practice Population Health Management, health care providers must be able to make changes in their organization by implementing sustainable quality improvement projects...

Health Assessment, Risk Stratification and Care Coordination

In order to effectively and efficiently practice Population Health Management, health care providers must know how to conduct health assessments with their patients, risk stratify patients, and perform care...

Population Health Management Overview - What Does It Mean for Me and My Patients?

Healthcare changes are impacting the way we deliver care with a focus of managing populations, and not mere individuals, to improve the care that is delivered at lower healthcare costs.  Population Health...

Delivering Patient-Centered Interventions

In order to effectively and efficiently practice Population Health Management, health care providers must be able to recognize a need for, and know how to deliver patient-centered interventions

Pediatric Emergencies: Early Assessment & Treatment of Children

The majority of children presenting for medical attention in emergency departments are seen at hospitals that do not have Pediatric Emergency Medicine trained providers.  Management of the acutely ill or...

Understanding Abusive Head Trauma and Child Physical Abuse

Kentucky continues to be a leading state in deaths of children related to child abuse. Specific bruising patterns are significant indicators of abuse. Knowing these patterns, recognizing crucial warning signs,...