FP Report -- November 1998 Techno-tools cover millennium bug, patient education, colposcopy, diseases
Help's here on the millennium bug, patient education and your CME-at-home needs. To order these items, call the AAFP order department at (800) 944-0000.
Quality Care Alerts
A collaborative program will soon begin sending you Quality Care Alerts -- information on areas where evidence strongly indicates medical practice should change.
The first alert, issued by the AAFP, AMA and other groups, will highlight scientific evidence in support of the use of beta-blockers in post-acute myocardial infarction. FP Lee Green, M.D., M.P.H., of Ann Arbor, Mich., served on the technical review committee on this topic.
- The document "Family Physicians and the Year 2000: Preventive Medicine for the Millennium Bug" covers technological problems expected to crop up on Jan. 1, 2000.
The bug might infect phone systems, lab equipment, biomedical devices and other time/date-dependent technologies.
- The revised CD-ROM "AAFP Patient Education Handouts" contains about 300 brochures, the Tar Wars coloring sheets and curriculum, teen-oriented brochures and "Let's Eat" nutrition sheets. The CD-ROM, with all materials in English and Spanish, costs $175 and is item #R1598.
- The new self-study CD-ROM program, "Colposcopy for the Family Physician," includes a syllabus, video and audio instruction, a photo atlas, searchable text documents and an interactive test. This program, item #R293, is approved for up to 11 hours of Prescribed credit and costs $110.
- Six new Video CME programs may each earn you one Prescribed hour of CME, and they cost $17.95 except for the last one. They are: "Alzheimer's Disease: A Family Practice Update," item #R1800; "An Update on Chronic Viral Hepatitis," item #R1806; "Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis: An Update," item #R1809; "Strategies for the Prevention and Treatment of Macrovas-cular Complications of Type 2 Diabetes," item #R1812; "Guidelines and Barriers in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes," item #R1815; and "Preventing the Microvas-cular Complications of Diabetes," item #R1818, now available for $10.
The last three items are part of AAFP's 1999 Annual Clinical Focus -- Management and Prevention of the Complications of Diabetes.
FP Report is published by the AAFP News Department. Copyright © 1998 by American Academy of Family Physicians.
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