Faculty
Advisor
Susan P. Squillace, MD
Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Department of
Family Medicine
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, Virginia
Target Audience:
This program was created for physicians who treat high numbers of patients with allergic rhinitis and asthma.
Fee: There is no fee
for participating in this educational activity.
Term of Offering:
Category 1 CME credit for this
newsletter will be available through October 3, 2003. The original
release date of this material was October 4, 2002. Continuing education
credit is offered upon successful completion of the post-test.
Upon successful completion of the post-test
(a score of 70% or better), evaluation form, and enrollment form, you
may print out your certificate. If you have any questions, please call
the Pragmaton Office of Medical Education
Faculty
Susan P. Squillace, MD
Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Family Medicine
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, Virginia
Back to
Top Learning ObjectivesUpon completion of this program, participants should be able to:
Discuss
the goals of health-related quality of life outcomes measures and how
they can be applied in patients with asthma and/or allergic rhinitis
Review the common outcomes instruments used in quality of life outcomes research
Realize the benefit of using quality of life measures in the treatment of patients with allergic rhinitis and/or asthma
Back to Top
Sponsor
Sponsored by the Pragmaton Office
of Medical Education. Supported by an unrestricted educational grant
from Merck & Co., Inc.
Back to Top
Accreditation StatementsPhysician Accreditation Statement
The Pragmaton Office of Medical Education
(POME) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical
Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for
physicians.
Physician Designation Statement
The Pragmaton Office of
Medical Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1
hour in category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award.
Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she
actually spent in the activity.
Other Healthcare Professional Statement
A certificate of participation for 1 hour will be issued for all healthcare
professionals not covered by the listed accreditation statements.
Program content may include
information regarding the use of products that may be inconsistent with
or outside the approved labeling for these products in the United
States. Participants should note that uses of these products outside the
current approved labeling are considered experimental and are advised
to consult prescribing information for these products.
Back to TopPragmaton Office of Medical Education
Faculty Disclosure
PolicyIt is the policy of the Pragmaton Office
of Medical Education that faculty members of CME/CE-accredited programs
must disclose any significant financial interest, arrangement, or
affiliation with a corporate organization that may have an impact on the
faculty member’s presentation, such as grants, research support,
honoraria, member of speakers’ bureau, consultant, major stock
shareholder, etc.
Faculty Disclosure
Susan P. Squillace, MD Formal advisor: Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.
Back to TopPragmaton Office of Medical Education Mission
StatementThe Pragmaton Office of Medical
Education (POME) is the accredited provider of continuing professional
development programs within Pragmaton, a medical communications company.
Pragmaton’s parent company, the Corbett Healthcare Group, provides
organizational support to POME and refers to this support in its mission
statement.
POME’s mission is to develop and implement clinically
oriented educational activities for a multidisciplinary national
audience. These activities must be medically accurate, scientifically
rigorous, and fair balanced. POME engages a CME advisory board, composed
of physicians and pharmacists, as an external monitor to ensure that
our educational activities meet the highest standards.
POME’s educational activities focus on disease states and
therapeutic regimens in areas including, but not limited to, women’s
health, neurology, rheumatology, pulmonology, and pain management. Our
audiences include primary and specialty care physicians, nurses,
pharmacists, and other allied health care professionals. We use a wide
variety of program formats, including live scientific symposia; print-,
multimedia-, and Internet-based self-study programs; and interactive
audioconferences, to meet the individual learning preferences of our
audience members. Through these educational activities, we expect
participants to gain new knowledge and skills that can be applied
clinically toward improving their professional practices and enhancing
patient care. We use immediate postactivity evaluations to determine
participant satisfaction and to monitor the ever-changing educational
needs of health care professionals. These evaluations also gather
baseline data for follow-up surveys that are conducted to assess whether
health care providers have adopted new clinical practices as a result
of participating in our activities.
Back to TopPragmaton Office of Medical Education Privacy Policy
The Pragmaton Office of Medical
Education (POME) does not sell or offer any user data, including
registration or billing information to any third party for commercial
purposes. POME does, where required, provide the minimum subset of
information to those third parties that are responsible for
accreditation and issuance of certification of Continuing Education
tests submitted. You agree that POME has full permission to provide this
minimum subset of information to the third parties as required by
law.
To provide additional security in those cases where a credit
card number or other form of payment has been submitted, POME utilizes
this information once, but does not permanently store this information.
Therefore, it will be necessary for you to reenter billing information
during subsequent visits. Although this may create a minor
inconvenience, POME believes that security should be first and foremost
in the provision of its services and therefore will not store billing
information permanently in its records.
Back to Top