Talking Immunization with your Adult Patients: Practical Strategies for Overcoming Barriers

Release Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 Expiration Date: Thursday, January 26, 2017

Program Overview

Vaccines provide an effective and important tool for disease prevention in adults, particularly those at high risk for infections, such as the elderly and smokers, and those with co-morbid condition, such as diabetes mellitus and COPD. However, few adults take advantage of the full potential of vaccines, which can lead to significant clinical consequences due to the underlying disease or its complications. Being in the forefront of community health, primary care providers (PCPs) must lead the way in these efforts by educating their patients about vaccine-preventable diseases and taking proactive measures within their clinical practice to ensure vaccines are given when indicated. Through improved patient-provider communication, PCPs can help to overcome barriers (social, psychological, or cultural) to vaccination.

Target Audience

This activity is designed as a comprehensive approach to address the practice needs of healthcare professionals who are at forefront of caring for adult patients eligible for immunizations and/or at risk for vaccine-preventable diseases.

Learning Objectives

Upon completing this activity, participants will be able to:

Recognize the clinical consequences of vaccine-preventable diseases in adults, including pneumococcal diseases, herpes zoster, and pertussis
Identify adult patients who would benefit from vaccines based on current immunization guidelines and develop an appropriate immunization schedule for those patients
Educate adult patients about the risks of vaccine-preventable diseases and the benefits of immunization
Address and minimize patient and health-system barriers to immunizationn

Educational Format

These Online Presentations are based on a 2015 primary care immunization series.

This online activity is divided into five portable and easy to access episodes:

Episode 1: Call-to-Action: Recognizing the Burden
of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Thomas M. File, MD

Episode 2: Pneumococcal Disease
Michael D. Hogue, PharmD

Episode 3: Pertussis
Thomas M. File, MD

Episode 4: Herpes Zoster
Robert H. Hopkins, MD

Episode 5: General Practice Recommendations
Michael Donnelly, MD

Faculty

	Michael J. Donnelly, MD, FACP, FAAP Associate Professor Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Georgetown University Associate Director, Med-Peds Residency Medstar Georgetown University Hospital Washington, D.C.

	Thomas M. File, Jr., MD, MS, MACP, FIDSA, FCCP Chair, Infectious Disease Division Summa Health System Akron, OH Professor, Internal Medicine Master Teacher Chair, Infectious Disease Section Northeast Ohio Medical University Rootstown, OH Past President, NFID Bethesda, MD

	Michael D. Hogue, PharmD, FAPhA, FNAP Professor and Chair Department of Pharmacy Practice Samford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy Birmingham, AL

	Robert H. Hopkins, Jr., MD, FACP, FAAP Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Director, Division of General Internal Medicine Program Director, Med-Peds Residency UAMS College of Medicine Little Rock, AR

Physicians
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the Center for Independent Healthcare Education and Vemco MedEd, LLC. Center for Independent Healthcare Education (Center) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Center for Independent Healthcare Education designates this Enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Physician Assistants
AAPA accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for the PRA from organizations accredited by ACCME.

Pharmacists
Center for Independent Healthcare Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider for continuing pharmacy education. Center has assigned 1.5 contact hours (0.15 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education credits for participating in this activity.

ACPE UAN: UAN: 0473-9999-16-002-H01-P
Activity type: Knowledge-based

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Method of Participation and Instruction for Credit

Review the entire CME/CPE information including target audience, learning objectives, and disclosures.
Review each episode.
Complete the Online Post Test, Evaluation, and Credit Application form
Please note that to receive credit you must achieve a score of at least 75%.
Physicians: Certificate of Credit will be emailed within 4 weeks of successful completion of the activity.
Pharmacists: Credit will be uploaded to CPE Monitor on the first of every month.

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest

In accordance with policies set forth by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), Center for Independent Healthcare Education requires all faculty members and spouses/significant others with an opportunity to affect the content of a continuing education activity to disclose any relevant financial relationships during the past 12 months with commercial interests. A commercial interest is any entity producing, marketing, reselling or distributing health care goods or services consumed by or used on patients. Relationships with commercial interests and conflicts of interest resulting from those relationships must be revealed to the audience and resolved prior to the activity.

Relevant relationships include roles such as speaker, author, consultant, independent contractor (including research), employee, investor, advisory committee member, board member, review panelist, and investigator. If a potential speaker or author indicates a possible conflict of interest, the conflict will be resolved by choosing another speaker or author for that topical area, or the slides, handouts, and/or monograph will be reviewed and approved by a qualified commercially-disinterested peer.

Disclosures
Michael J. Donnelly, MD does not have relevant financial relationships with commercial interests.
Dr. Donnelly discusses the off-label use of following: “The CDC ACIP recommended use for Tdap vaccines fall outside the FDA-approved indications.

Thomas M. File, Jr., MD has relevant financial relationships with the following commercial interests:
Consultant/Scientific Advisory Board Member—Actavis, Cempra, Merck,
MotifBio, Nabriva, Pfizer, Tetraphase
Dr. File discusses the off-label use of the following: “the CDC ACIP recommendation to administer polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccine and zoster vaccine at the same visit if the person is eligible for both vaccines.”

Robert H. Hopkins, Jr., MD does not have any relevant financial relationships with commercial interests.
Dr. Hopkins discusses the off-label use of following: “I will present some material which is not FDA approved, however, all non-FDA approved indications will be in accord with ACIP recommendations for adult vaccines. I will make this distinction clear in my slides and verbally state this distinction when it occurs.

Michael D. Hogue, PharmD has relevant financial relationships with the following commercial interests:
Grant Recipient/Research Support: Merck & Co.
Speaker’s Bureau: Pfizer, Inc.
Dr. Hogue discusses the off-label use of following: “The CDC ACIP recommended use for pneumococcal vaccine and Tdap vaccines fall outside the FDA-approved indications.

No (other) speakers, authors, planners or content reviewers have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Content review confirmed that the content was developed in a fair, balanced manner free from commercial bias. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone commercial bias in any presentation, but it is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.

Fee
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Joint Providership

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Commercial Support

This activity is supported by an educational grant from Merck & Co.

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