Continuing Education

For the first time, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the American Public Health Association present continuing education credits for several sessions that are designed to encourage audience participation including using trigger tools to identify potential risks and hazards, future directions for expanding patient-centered care, and comparative effectiveness research.

Accreditation Statements
Health Education
“The American Public Health Association is accredited by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. to sponsor continuing education for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES). This program is a designated event for the CHES to receive up to (12) Category I CE contact hours (CHEC).”

Medicine
“This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Public Health Association (APHA) and (the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality). The APHA is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation statement: The APHA designates this educational activity for a maximum of (12) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.”

Nurses and Other Health Professionals
Please contact Jennifer Kostiuk (jenniferk@capconcorp.com) for more information on how to obtain your continuing education credits.

Disclosure Policy
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Qualitystrives to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all of its educational programs. All planners, faculty members, moderators, discussants, panelists, and presenters participating in this program have been required to disclose any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest that may have a direct bearing on the subject matter of this program. This includes relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers or other corporations whose products or services are related to the subject matter of the presentation topic. The intent of this policy is to identify openly any conflict of interest so that attendees may form their own judgments about the presentation with full disclosure of the facts. In addition, faculty is expected to openly disclose any off-label, experimental, and/or investigational uses of drugs or devices in their presentations. Written disclosures are available upon request at the CE Information Desk.

Instructions to Obtain a Certificate
To earn continuing education credit, participants must attend the entire session and complete an online evaluation. The deadline to complete the online evaluation is Monday, November 29, 2010.

Identify sessions attended.
Log onto www.dspesg.com/aphaRegional.
Enter your email address and last name.
Follow screen prompts to evaluate each session attended; HIT SAVE after each submission.
Continue to enter evaluations until you have completed ALL evaluations for sessions attended, HIT FINISH.
Once you hit FINISH, your records will be locked and you will not be able to enter any additional evaluations.
Once FINISHED, the screen will ask you which certificate you want, you must CHECK the box to receive the certificate.
The screen will ask you if you want to PRINT your certificate or have a PDF sent to your email; ENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AND CLICK ENTER.
You’ll know you’ve completed your evaluations and a certificate has been emailed when the screen says that a certificate has been sent to your email.
The online evaluation system will be open to submit evaluations until November 30, 2010.
For assistance, click on the Contact Us navigation button; input your information and click enter. An online support person will respond.

Approved Sessions
The following sessions have been approved for 1.5 continuing education credits.

Monday, September 27, 2010
8:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Session 51: New and Improved: Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes and HIT
Session 57: Community Care Coordination Score Card: Raising the Bar Across Communities

1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Session 35: Something Borrowed, Something New: Developing an Agenda for Patient-Centered Mental Health
Session 50: Evaluating Emerging Technologies: Is the Future Now??

3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Session 18: Quality Improvement Initiatives: National Implementation of CUSP and TeamSTEPPS
Session 22: Patient Safety Organizations in Their Second Year: The Momentum Builds

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
8:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Session 23: Identifying, Preventing, and Reducing Diagnostic Error in Health Care
Session 37: Grading Evidence and Recommendations: Starting with GRADE Basics vs. Utilizing the Full Framework

1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Session 7: Implementation, Change, and Improving Health Care Quality and Safety: Lessons Learned From AHRQ’s Implementation Science Awards
Session 30: America’s “Growth Spurt”: Screening and Treatment of Overweight Children and Adolescents in Primary Care

3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Session 43: Reducing Waste in Care Delivery

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
8:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Session 16: Disclosure-and-Offer Programs: Innovative Programs, Future Directions, and Policy Implications
Session 36: Value of Information: An Innovative Approach to Prioritizing Comparative Effectiveness Research
Session 72: Taking Best Practices to Scale: Spreading Effective Health Care Practices and Programs
Session 76: AHRQ Data Resources to Inform Health Policy Research: The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)

10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Session 17: Use of Trigger Tools To Identify Risks and Hazards to Patient Safety
Session 42: Creating Organizational Climates and Working Conditions That Foster Quality and Safety
Session 75: AHRQ Data Resources To Inform Health Policy Research: The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)

Questions
If you have any questions or need any additional information, please contact Jennifer Kostiuk (jenniferk@capconcorp.com).