Date of Release: September 15, 2024
Enroll by: June 15, 2027
Expiration Date: September 15, 2027
Content Available Until: December 15, 2027

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We gratefully acknowledge the invaluable contributions of our faculty content developers, Smita Das, MD, PhD, MPH , and Maher Karam Hage, M.D. in crafting this educational material.

Target Audience: This activity is designed to improve the competence, performance, and patient outcomes of physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners and other health care professionals. Learners will determine individual practice gaps and address them through a performance improvement plan. Learners will assess and evaluate performance techniques used in their practices.

Our goal: The overall objective of this activity is to guide you through the process of self-evaluation using evidence-based clinical quality measures. Once practices are implemented as an everyday clinical function, it is expected that you will have achieved performance change in your practice setting.  

Educational objectives of this activity: At the conclusion of this activity, clinicians will be able to:

• Display a greater level of competence in the risks to patients with substance use disorders who also use nicotine in the form of smoked tobacco or other products.
• Discuss general concepts and terminology related to tobacco and nicotine use.
• Systematically assess for tobacco and nicotine use in their clinical practice.
• Treat and improve patient-centered outcomes with respect to tobacco and nicotine.

Core Competencies as a result of participating in this continuing education activity: 

• Interpersonal Skills and Communication
• Medical Knowledge
• Patient Care
• Practice-based Learning and Improvement

Patient-Centered Care:  We anticipate that completing this PIP activity will increase the likelihood that addiction specialists will offer and monitor high quality treatment that can result in better patient-centered care and outcomes, a key theme in the development of this activity. Patient-centered care is defined by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, as: “helping people and their caregivers communicate and make informed health care decisions, allowing their voices to be heard in assessing the value of health care options.” Some questions that reflect patient-centered considerations include: (1) “Given my personal characteristics, conditions and preferences, what should I expect will happen to me?”; (2)“What are my options and what are the potential benefits and harms of those options?”; and (3) “What can I do to improve the outcomes that are most important to me?”. Consideration of patient priorities in weighing treatment options is essential to treatment success and recovery, and an integral part--along with the best research evidence and clinical expertise—of achieving high quality care and better outcomes. Patients should learn about both the efficacy and side effects of treatments and how these apply to them so they can make individualized decisions. The level of patient motivation, choice, and education about treatment options are all important factors to appropriate counseling, prescribing, adherence, and recovery. 

 

The 25 Question Self-Assessment (SA) Examination activity in this course is an optional, standard multiple choice examination. If you choose to complete it, and pass with an 80% score, you will receive an additional 2.5 SA CME credits, approved by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN).