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December 13, 2000
JAMA. 2000;284:2947-2948.
Physicians in the United States, Canada, and Mexico
Physicians with current and valid licenses in the United States, Canada, or Mexico who read any 3 of the selected continuing medical education (CME) articles in this issue of JAMA, complete the CME Evaluation Form, and fax it to the number or mail it to the address at the bottom of the CME Evaluation Form are eligible for category 1 CME credit. There is no charge.
The American Medical Association (AMA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor CME for physicians. The AMA designates this educational activity for up to 1 hour of category 1 CME credit per JAMA issue toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award (PRA). Each physician should claim for credit only those hours that were actually spent in this educational activity.
Physicians in Other Countries
Physicians with current and valid licenses in the United States, Mexico, or Canada are eligible for CME credit even if they live or practice in other countries. Physicians licensed in other countries are also welcome to participate in this CME activity. However, the PRA is available only to physicians licensed in the United States, Canada, or Mexico.
Earning Credit and the CME Evaluation Form
To earn credit, read 3 of the articles listed below that are designated for CME credit carefully and complete the CME Evaluation Form. The CME Evaluation Form must be submitted within 1 month of the issue date. A certificate awarding 1 hour of category 1 CME credit will be faxed or mailed to you; it is then your responsibility to maintain a record of credit received.
One of our goals is to assess continually the educational needs of our readers so we may enhance the educational effectiveness of JAMA. To achieve this goal, we need your help. You must complete the CME Evaluation Form to receive credit.
Statement of Educational Purpose
JAMA is a general medical journal. Its mission and educational purpose is to promote the science and art of medicine and the betterment of the public health. A flexible curriculum of article topics is developed annually by THE JOURNAL's editorial board and is then supplemented throughout the year with information gained from readers, authors, reviewers, and editors. To accommodate the diversity of practice types within JAMA's readership, the Reader's Choice CME activity allows readers, as adult learners, to determine their own educational needs and to assist the editors in addressing their needs in future issues.
Readers of JAMA should be able to attain the following educational objectives: (1) select and read at least 3 articles in 1 issue to gain new medical information on topics of particular interest to them as physicians, (2) assess the articles' value to them as practicing physicians, and (3) think carefully about how this new information may influence their own practices. The educational objective for each CME article is given after the article title below.
CME Articles in This Issue of JAMA
The following articles in this issue may be read for CME credit:
Influenza (SEE ARTICLE)
Educational Objective: To learn about prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of influenza.
Effectiveness of Team-Managed Home-Based Primary Care: A Randomized Multicenter Trial (SEE ARTICLE)
Educational Objective: To understand the costs and benefits of a team-managed home care intervention.
Relation Between Prepublication Release of Clinical Trial Results and the Practice of Carotid Endarterectomy (SEE ARTICLE)
Educational Objective: To learn how prepublication dissemination of clinical trial results may affect clinical practice.
Tuberculosis Among Foreign-Born Persons in the United States, 1993-1998 (SEE ARTICLE)
Educational Objective: To understand that almost half of all people in the United States diagnosed with tuberculosis in this period were foreign-born.
Short-term Prognosis After Emergency Department Diagnosis of TIA (SEE ARTICLE)
Educational Objective: To learn which characteristics of patients diagnosed with transient ischemic attack by emergency physicians are associated with a greater short-term risk of stroke.
Depression, Hopelessness, and Desire for Hastened Death in Terminally Ill Patients With Cancer (SEE ARTICLE)
Educational Objective: To learn that a desire for hastened death among terminally ill cancer patients may be strongly associated with depression.
Does This Patient Have Strep Throat? (SEE ARTICLE)
Educational Objective: To review the precision and accuracy of the clinical examination in diagnosing sore throat.
Consensus Statement on the Live Organ Donor (SEE ARTICLE)
Educational Objective: To learn an expert panel's recommendations for protecting and informing live organ donors.
After reading 3 of these articles, complete the CME Evaluation Form.
RELATED ARTICLES
Influenza
Adam Cifu and Wendy Levinson
JAMA. 2000;284(22):2847-2849.
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Effectiveness of Team-Managed Home-Based Primary Care: A Randomized Multicenter Trial
Susan L. Hughes, Frances M. Weaver, Anita Giobbie-Hurder, Larry Manheim, William Henderson, Joseph D. Kubal, Alec Ulasevich, Joan Cummings, and for the Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on Home-Based Primary Care
JAMA. 2000;284(22):2877-2885.
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Relation Between Prepublication Release of Clinical Trial Results and the Practice of Carotid Endarterectomy
Cary P. Gross, Claudia A. Steiner, Eric B. Bass, and Neil R. Powe
JAMA. 2000;284(22):2886-2893.
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Tuberculosis Among Foreign-Born Persons in the United States, 1993-1998
Elizabeth A. Talbot, Marisa Moore, Eugene McCray, and Nancy J. Binkin
JAMA. 2000;284(22):2894-2900.
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Short-term Prognosis After Emergency Department Diagnosis of TIA
S. Claiborne Johnston, Daryl R. Gress, Warren S. Browner, and Stephen Sidney
JAMA. 2000;284(22):2901-2906.
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Depression, Hopelessness, and Desire for Hastened Death in Terminally Ill Patients With Cancer
William Breitbart, Barry Rosenfeld, Hayley Pessin, Monique Kaim, Julie Funesti-Esch, Michele Galietta, Christian J. Nelson, and Robert Brescia
JAMA. 2000;284(22):2907-2911.
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Does This Patient Have Strep Throat?
Mark H. Ebell, Mindy A. Smith, Henry C. Barry, Kathy Ives, and Mark Carey
JAMA. 2000;284(22):2912-2918.
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Consensus Statement on the Live Organ Donor
The Authors for the Live Organ Donor Consensus Group
JAMA. 2000;284(22):2919-2926.
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