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Addressing Underutilization of Cardioprotective GLP-1 RAs for T2D in Specialty Practice.
The complexity of patients with T2D combined with the overwhelming amount of outcomes data complicates the treatment decision matrix exponentially and clinical inertia persists. This self-paced, interactive education includes a learning assessment followed by customizable content repository designed to sharpen your ability to individualize therapeutic targets and glucose-lowering regimens based ...
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Are You Up to Speed? Test Your Knowledge on Pneumococcal Vaccination in Adults
Despite widespread availability of pneumococcal vaccines designed to reduce the risks for infection and invasive pneumococcal disease, coverage remains suboptimal among older adults and those with underlying medical conditions and risk factors. The development of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines offers new opportunities for improved protection against pneumococcal disease, but are you current wit...
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Can You Diagnose this Patient with Edema, Pain, Abdominal Swelling, and/or Fatigue?
When your patient presents with symptoms such as edema, fatigue, and abdominal pain, what might you first suspect and can you reach the right diagnosis? Put your diagnostic skills to the test! In just 15 minutes, navigate through real-world cases and upon completion, hear faculty insights on the implications of your decisions along with rationales for appropriate next steps to aid in making a fi...
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Can You Diagnose This Patient With Impaired Balance and Paresthesia?
When your patient presents with symptoms such as impaired balance and paresthesia, what might you first suspect and can you reach the right diagnosis? Put your diagnostic skills to the test! In just 15 minutes, navigate through real-world cases and upon completion, hear faculty insights on the implications of your decisions along with rationales for appropriate next steps to aid in making a fina...
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Co-Management of Severe Asthma: Improving Processes for Primary Care Assessment and Referral to Specialty Care through Quality Improvement
Can you recognize severe asthma? Our easy-to-administer digital quality improvement (QI) program walks you through steps to assess how well your clinical practices align with evidence-based practice, allows you to select goals to address your identified gaps, dynamically creates an action plan for you or your team, and offers pre-developed interventions to achieve these goals. QI doesn't ha...
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Common Nonspecific Symptoms at Presentation: Can You Diagnose This Patient?
When your patient presents with nonspecific symptoms such as shortness of breath, fatigue, and dizziness, could it be an indication of a more serious disease? Put your skills to the test! In just 15 minutes, navigate through real-world cases to see if you can correctly diagnose each patient. Diagnostic conclusions are revealed after reviewing all cases. Hear faculty insights on the implications ...
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Conversations Around Brain Health
To help patients talk to their clinicians and care team about brain health, this resource site offers a mix of practical strategies and communication recommendations to support patients and their caregivers.
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Conversations Around Brain Health: Reframing Expectations for Healthcare Providers, Patients, and Caregivers
Clinicians often fail to initiate conversations with patients and/or caregivers around brain health, frequently due to discomfort with the topic and the incorrect perception that there is little benefit to diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) early. However, the failure to detect early signs of cognitive decline and diagnose appropriately prevents patients from gaining access to treatment and s...
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Establishing Frameworks for Precision Medicine in NTRK Fusion-Positive Advanced Solid Tumors
Despite significant advancements over the past decade, significant unmet needs persist for patients with NTRK-positive locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors. In addition, there is ongoing debate about the importance of testing for genomic alterations in rare cancers, or those that rarely occur in common cancers. However, evolving molecular testing procedures and emerging therapeutic optio...
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Formalized Training Cascades for Pharmacy Teams: Becoming an LGBTQ+ Ally to Improve HPV Immunization
Health disparities faced by LGBTQ+ individuals include social stigma and discrimination that are associated with increased rates of mental health disorders, substance abuse, and suicide. Better understanding the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people throughout their lives has been prioritized in research of late; however, a paucity of HCPs who are culturally competent in LGBTQ+ healthcare threat...
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How the Patient Experience Should Inform Treatment Selection: Reframing Expectations in EoE for HCPs and Patients
Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) has been steadily increasing in prevalence and incidence over the past three decades. Today, EoE has evolved from a rare case-reportable condition to a disease that is commonly encountered in the clinic and endoscopy suite and is a major cause of upper gastrointestinal morbidity and increasing healthcare costs.
Delays in diagnosis persist and management of the ...
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Keeping Up with the Evolving Treatment Landscape for Advanced/Metastatic Gastric/GEJ Cancer: Modeling Center of Excellence Practices
Are you optimally treating your patients with gastric/gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancers per the latest evidence on selection of therapies? Despite recent advancements in diagnosis of gastric/GEJ cancer, most cases are detected at advanced stages, resulting in poor outcomes. But advances have identified biomarkers that can offer more precise diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for gastri...
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Multidisciplinary Team Essentials on CMV Prevention, Surveillance, and Treatment Optimization in the Transplant Setting
The role of the multidisciplinary transplant team has expanded considerably over the past decade to keep pace with advances in the field and to address long-term care of transplant recipients. Despite these advances, breakthrough cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections and development of refractory and resistant CMV infections cause significant complications post-transplant. To lessen patient burden an...
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Navigating the Rapidly Evolving Classification and Treatment Landscape of Secondary AML Subtypes: Modeling Best Practices for Early Identification and Individualized Care
Are you optimally treating secondary AML subtypes per latest evidence on selection of therapies? To optimize treatment, clinicians must not only have current knowledge of the up-to-date classification and risk stratification strategies, but the operational frameworks to effectively translate this latest evidence into treatment selection practices. Assess your current practices, review the latest...
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Nonspecific Symptoms in Primary Care: Can You Diagnose These Patients?
When your patient presents with nonspecific symptoms such as shortness of breath, fatigue, and dizziness, could it be an indication of a more serious disease? Put your skills to the test! In just 15 minutes, navigate through real-world cases to see if you can correctly diagnose each patient. Diagnostic conclusions are revealed after reviewing all cases. Hear faculty insights on the implications ...
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Opportunities with Novel Therapies to Treat the Entire Spectrum of Schizophrenia Symptoms
Available antipsychotic therapies for schizophrenia are effective in treating positive symptoms of schizophrenia yet significant unmet needs remain, including therapies that (1) are more effective in reducing negative and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia; 2) have improved tolerability and adherence rates; and (3) that are effective in treating refractory schizophrenia. Fortunately, the schizo...
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Recognize and Respond: Developing Tailored Communications With Parents To Improve Pediatric Vaccination Coverage
Pediatric vaccination rates have been declining in recent years. A relatively small percentage of people take a strict anti-vaccination stance regardless of evidence or scientific consensus, but other individuals, classified as “vaccine-hesitant,” are moving toward anti-vaccination, or “vaccine refusal” practices for a variety of reasons, including aggressive misinformation campaigns, la...
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Simple Steps for Improving the Quality of Healthcare for Patients with Chronic Idiopathic Constipation
To ensure your patients with chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC) receive timely, appropriate interventions and the best possible care, clinicians need to better distinguish CIC from similar conditions. In addition, working together, clinicians and patients can make better choices among the many treatment options through shared decision-making (SDM) strategies to help achieve treatment goals.
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The Pharmacist’s Role in Individualizing Therapy for Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP)
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is a rare, immune-mediated neurologic disorder that can lead to severe disability if left untreated. Early and accurate diagnosis for CIDP is challenging and usually delayed, but early initiation and maintenance of immunoglobulin-based treatment is crucial. Due to the heterogenous nature of the disease, treatment strategies need to be indi...
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Treating SCLC in the Relapsed/Refractory Setting: Giving Patients a Voice About Second-Line Therapy
SCLC is aggressive in nature with a high recurrence rate following initial treatment and a propensity to become resistant to conventional therapies. Early detection is critical, but many patients are diagnosed at an advanced stage where prognosis is poor. Progress in the second-line setting offers new hope for improving patient outcomes, but the rapid pace at which these advances are occurring p...
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