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Knowledge Gap: 
The purpose of this activity is to educate healthcare providers with the most up-to-date information on Advanced Care Planning (ACP)- Clinical Practice & Dementia Billing Codes.

Target Audience
The target audience includes all healthcare professionals such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals who would like to learn about Advanced Care Planning (ACP)- Clinical Practice & Dementia Billing Codes and how it pertains to their respective profession.

 Release and Expiration Dates
12/5/2017 -12/5/2020

Objectives

1. Describe need for Advance Care Planning (ACP), challenges to initiating and continuing ACP discussions
2. Discuss tools and techniques available to assist in conversation regarding ACP
3. Explain Alzheimer's and dementia billing procedure and Codes

1. Source: http://iom.nationalacademies.org/Reports/2014/Dying-In-America-Improving-Quality-and-Honoring-Individual-Preferences-Near-the-End-of-Life.aspx 
2. Committee on Approaching Death: Addressing Key End of Life Issues 
3. Institute of Medicine. “Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life” (2014) (citing Teno et al 2013)
4. Approaching death report, 1997
5. AR Code § 20-6-102 (2014)
6. McLawhorn JM, George M. Advance Care Planning in Hospice. Journal of the Arkansas Medical Society. (Accepted, Awaiting Publication)
7. National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
8. Advance care planning: concise evidence-based guidelines. Conroy et al. Clin Med 2009;9:76–79
9. Dow LA et al, Paradoxes in Advance Care Planning. J clin oncol 2009
10. Physician-related barriers to communication and patient- and family-centred decision-making towards the end of life in intensive care: a systematic review. Visser et al, Critical care, 2014
11. National POLST Paradigm: Amy Vandenbroucke, JD, Susan Nelson, MD, Patricia A. Bomba, MD, FACP, Alvin H. Moss, MD

Biographical Info

Speaker Disclosures:
The planners, speakers, moderators, peer reviewers and /or panelists of this CE activity have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.

Planners: 
Priya Mendiratta, MD
Paula Podrazik, MD
Gohar Azhar, MD
SusanSmithwick, MD 

Speaker:
Masil George, MD

Peer Reviewers: 
Kim Miller, MCHES

Instructions to obtain credit:

1.       Launch the activity 
2.       View the entire activity online 
3.       Complete the post-test 
           (must pass the post-test with a score of 65% to receive credit). 
           You may retake the post-test if you do not receive a passing score.
4.       Complete Evaluation 
Print certificate or transcript (Available in the “My Profile” tab).

Direct Provider Statement
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Designation Statement 
The University of Arkansas for Medical Science Office of Continuing Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Policy statement

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