Abnormal Liver Enzymes and Jaundice

 

Disease Management Clinical Decisions

A Young Man with Abnormal
Liver Enzymes and Jaundice

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How to Obtain AMA PRA
Category 1 Credit

  1. Complete the CME case-based lesson (each question must be answered correctly).
  2. Login to your account.
  3. Complete the credit and evaluation form.
  4. Print your personalized CME certificate.

Technical Requirements

 

Release Date:  February 10, 2012
Expiration Date:  February 10, 2015

Estimated Time of Completion:  15 minutes

Description

Each lesson within the Disease Management Clinical Decisions series includes a related chapter from The Cleveland Clinic Disease Management Project; an interactive case; and an evaluation.

Throughout the interactive case-based lesson, you may proceed to the next question once you answer each question correctly. In addition to allowing you
to proceed, the correct answer also reveals the rationale for the answer.

Upon completing the CME activity, the evaluation and registration forms, you will have an opportunity to print your CME certificate for your records.

Learning Objectives

  1. Evaluate patients with abnormal liver enzymes to differentiate between hepatocellular and cholestatic pattern of injury.
  2. Diagnose and evaluate patients presenting with acute hepatitis.
  3. Recite natural history and treatment of patients with acute hepatitis C.
  4. List prognostic factors predicting successful clearance of acute hepatitis C infection.

Target Audience

Directed to primary care physicians including family practitioners and internists.

Accreditation

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Participants claiming CME credit from this activity may submit the credit hours to the American Osteopathic Association Council for Category 2 credit.

Activity Director
Kenneth Goodman, MD
Department of Family Medicine
Associate Director, Research and Development - Center for Continuing Medical Education
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Faculty
Binu V. John, MD, MPH
Staff, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Disclosure

In accordance with the Standards for Commercial Support issued by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education requires resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest to ensure CME activities are free of commercial bias.

The following faculty have indicated they have no relationship which, in the context of their presentations, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

Kenneth Goodman, MD
Binu V. John, MD, MPH

 

This CME activity was produced by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Center for Continuing Education.

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