Estimated Time of Completion

30 minutes

Accreditation

0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity may be submitted for American Osteopathic Association Continuing Medical Education credit in Category 2.

Target Audience

Directed to gastroenterologists, infectious disease physicians, infectious disease and gastroenterology nurse practitioners, infection control nurses, physician assistants, and managed care organizations.

Description / Overview

The Hepatitis C Management Series includes interactive cases, corresponding to the Hepatitis C Management Monograph.

Throughout the interactive case, you may proceed to the next question once you answer each question correctly. In addition to allowing you to proceed, the correct answer also reveals the rationale for the answer.

Upon completing the CME activity, the evaluation and registration forms, you will have the opportunity to print a CME certificate. 

Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

1. Identify the challenges of managing patients with Chronic Hepatitis C and no health insurance.
2. List resources for managing such patients.
3. Evaluate the accuracy of diagnostic tests for hepatitis C.
4. Summarize psychological issues involved in optimal management of such patients.
5. Describe differences in virologic response among patients with different ethnic backgrounds.

Activity Director

William D. Carey, MD
Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
The Cleveland Clinic
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio

Author / Faculty

Harpreet Gujral, MSN, NP
Zobair M. Younassi, MD, MPH

Faculty Disclosure

In accordance with the Standards for Commercial Support issued by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education requires resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest to ensure CME activities are free of commercial bias.

The following faculty have indicated that they may have a relationship, which in the context of their presentation(s), could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

The following faculty has indicated he has no relationship which, in the context of his presentation(s), could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

William Carey, MD
Zobair Younossi, MD