Free CE on Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Discovery Health is offering free CME OCD: Improving Diagnosis, Maximizing Treatment. Watch online or listen to the podcast.

On average, it takes several years from the time OCD symptoms first appear for people to obtain appropriate treatment. Because many people with OCD are acutely aware that their obsessive thoughts are irrational and are not caused by external circumstances, they may withhold information and be reluctant to reveal their condition to family members or health care professionals.

JNC-7 Guidelines for Treatment of High Blood Pressure

The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute(NHLBI) publishes clinical guidelines for the treatment of hypertension. The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure, otherwise known as JNC-7, was published in 2003 and is currently in revision for JNC-8 due out in March 2010 for comment and in final form in summer of 2010.

A JNC-7 Express Guide has been written for primary care.

A JNC-7 Pocket Reference Card contains all the main points in a concise 2 pages.

JNC-7 PDA Application

Preventive Care Guidelines for your PDA

Search and Browse U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations on your PDA or mobile device with ePSS, now including iPhone and iPod Touch.

The Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS) is an application designed to help primary care clinicians identify the screening, counseling, and preventive medication services that are appropriate for their patients.

The ePSS is available both as a web application and a mobile application. The ePSS information is based on the current recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and can be searched by specific patient characteristics, such as age, sex, and selected behavioral risk factors.

Free CME from Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide

The POC-IT Center offers continuing medical education materials focused on delivering concise, practical information written by expert clinical faculty and tailored to clinicians' needs. You can access CME offerings in two convenient ways: from this CME Center page or at the point of clinical decision making. Just look for this as you browse the Guide's topics.

Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide

Launched in 2000, the ABX Guide is a state-of-the-art resource for diagnosing, managing and treating infectious diseases. It has become a popular infectious disease resource in the field with more than 350,000 registered users--half of whom download the application to their PDA devices.

Download the ABX Guide to your handheld device

• ABX Guide is available for download through SKYSCAPE
• All handheld, mobile devices are supported including Palm, PocketPC, BlackBerry^® and iPhone.
• 24x7 technical support from Skyscape.
• Mac and PC compatible.
• New "Table Viewer" allows users to easily and conveniently scroll through tables on their mobile devices.

How do I find an article? Let Us Count the Ways

Where do I find articles? In 1959, Librarian Herman H. Henkle's print journal collection, might have been your source! But in 2009, you have more options.

There are still a few print journals left on the shelves at Montgomery Hospital's Library, but most of your articles will come from three sources:


1. Medline is the largest database of article information. The National Library of Medicine(NLM) funded by the U.S. government, employs a large staff of librarians to summarize medical articles, and assign subject headings/tags to each one. The data is freely accessible, and many companies repackage it with different interfaces.

PubMed Medline: This interface is produced by the NLM, and is available from any computer for free. If you want free full text though, only 10% of the articles have a link to the full text online from the publisher. To restrict to full text articles, click the limits button, and choose the "free full text" option.

NOTE: Due to the closure of the library, no interlibrary loan is available.

2. Interlibrary Loan, otherwise known as "ILL," is your key to those several thousand other journals that aren't free in Medline.

3 NEJM: The current print issues are at the library. You can also get to the NEJM online versions from any networked pc in the hospital. The publisher will recognize your IP address, and log you in, if you are at the hospital.

4. Google: Sometimes, if you are fortunate, a publisher will post an article in free full text to the web, perhaps because of the public health implications, or just because they feel like it.
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Free CME on Medication Reconciliation thru 11/5/10

The AMA is offering a free Patient Safety CME module on Medication Reconciliation, thru 11/5/10, AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.

Objectives
After completing this activity, participants should be able to:

Describe medication reconciliation principles and processes
Distinguish the physician's role in the medication reconciliation process
Integrate patient-centric aspects of medication reconciliation into practice
Create a medication management plan with your patients
Integrate principles and processes into practice in all settings of care
Identify appropriate medication reconciliation team in all settings of care
Identify proper delegation of clinical and nonclinical medication reconciliation responsibilities
Lead your organization's efforts to support medication reconciliation

New Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America is offering access to the new
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults
SHEA/IDSA
ICHE May 2010

This guideline is designed to improve the diagnosis and management of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in adult patients. A case of CDI is defined by the presence of symptoms (usually diarrhea) and either a stool test positive for C. difficile toxins or toxigenic C. difficile, or colonoscopic or histopathologic findings revealing pseudomembranous colitis. In addition to diagnosis and management, recommended methods of infection control and environmental management of the pathogen are presented. The recommendations are based on the best available evidence and practices, as determined by a joint Expert Panel appointed by SHEA and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) (the SHEA‐IDSA Expert Panel). The use of these guidelines can be impacted by the size of the institution and the resources, both financial and laboratory, available in the particular clinical setting.