Use the strength of numbers to help your patients quit smoking. Group visits can enhance the quality of care, improve patient satisfaction, increase your productivity and decrease the overall cost of providing care. Now you can put all that to work for you to help your patients kick the habit.
Webcast Shows How Group Sessions Can Aid Patients' Smoking Cessation Efforts
By News Staff
5/1/2007
A free Academy webcast, "Conduct and Get Paid for Tobacco Cessation Group Visits," is set for noon CDT May 16. Take advantage of your chance to find out more about this innovative approach to care.
Participants should learn:
Participants should learn:
- how to conduct group visits that help patients combat tobacco addiction and other chronic conditions,
- about the advantages of offering group sessions,
- how to schedule and organize group visits, and
- how to properly document and code for group visits.
The program will be led by Steven Masley, M.D., medical director of the Carillon Executive Health program at St. Anthony's Health Care in St Petersburg, Fla., as well as medical director of the health system's Ten Years Younger: Younger, Trimmer, Fitter program. He also is a clinical assistant professor at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg.
The webcast is supported in part by the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at the University of California, San Francisco, a national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The enrollment deadline for the webcast is May 11.
This CME activity has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to two Prescribed credits, including added credit for content that conforms to the AAFP criteria for evidence-based CME clinical content.
For more information about the webcast, call (800) 274-2237, Ext. 3138.
The webcast is supported in part by the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at the University of California, San Francisco, a national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The enrollment deadline for the webcast is May 11.
This CME activity has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to two Prescribed credits, including added credit for content that conforms to the AAFP criteria for evidence-based CME clinical content.
For more information about the webcast, call (800) 274-2237, Ext. 3138.
