Hepatitis C Management
Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C
and No Health Insurance Coverage
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Release Date: January 31, 2008
Expiration Date: January 31, 2010
Estimated Time of Completion: 30 minutes
Description
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. This case also includes interactive flash exercises to reinforce the material.
Upon completing the CME activity, the evaluation and registration forms, you will have the opportunity to print a CME certificate.
Objectives
- Identify the challenges of managing patients with Chronic Hepatitis C and no health insurance.
- List resources for managing such patients.
- Evaluate the accuracy of diagnostic tests for hepatitis C.
- Summarize psychological issues involved in optimal management of such patients.
- Describe differences in virologic response among patients with different ethnic backgrounds.
Target Audience
Directed to gastroenterologists,
infectious disease physicians, infectious disease and gastroenterology
nurse practitioners, infection control nurses, physician assistants, and
managed care organizations.
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 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim 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
William D. Carey, MD
Director, Center for Continuing Education
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Author / Faculty
| Harpreet Gujral, MSN, NP Center for Liver Diseases Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church, Virginia |
Zobair M. Younassi, MD, MPH Center for Liver Diseases Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church, Virginia |
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:
| Harpreet Gujral, MSN, NP | |||
| Teaching and Speaking: | Roche, Schering Plough | ||
The following faculty have indicated they have no relationship which, in the context of their presentation(s), could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:
William D. Carey, MD
Zobair Younossi, MDThe Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education
acknowledges an educational grant for support of this activity from:
This CME activity was produced by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Center for Continuing Education and UNITECH Communications®.
