Disease Management Clinical Decisions
Osteoporosis and Bone Densitometry
in Clinical Practice
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Expiration Date: February 23, 2012
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Estimated Time of Completion: 15 minutes
Description
Each lesson within the Disease Management Clinical Decisions series includes an optional related reading material from The Cleveland Clinic Disease Management Project or the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, an interactive case, and an evaluation.
Throughout the interactive case-based lesson, 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 an opportunity to print your CME certificate for your records.
Learning Objectives
- Identify patients presenting with risk factors for osteoporosis.
- Recognize the prevalence of low bone density in the U.S. population and the importance of screening patients for low bone density.
- Identify patients who should receive a bone density test.
- Interpret bone density results.
- List secondary causes of bone loss.
Target Audience
Directed to primary care physicians including family practitioners and internists.
Accreditation
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 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Participants claiming CME credit from this activity may submit the credit hours to the American Osteopathic Association Council on Continuing Medical Education for Category 2 credit.
Activity Director
Kenneth Goodman, MD
Department of Family Medicine
Associate Director, Research and Development - Center for Continuing Medical Education
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Author / Faculty
Feyrouz Al-Ashkar, MD, FACR
Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
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 they have no relationship which, in the context of their presentations, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:
Kenneth Goodman, MD
Feyrouz Al-Ashkar, MD, FACR
This CME activity was produced by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Center for Continuing Education.
