Reducing Falls in Seniors Stage A

Thank you for enrolling in the performance improvement project. This online module has 3 stages, and you need to complete all three stages in order to claim credit. It will take you 3-6 months to fully complete this program.

In Stage A of this project, you will assess your current practice and set your improvement goals to: 

  1. Increase the number of discussions you initiate with geriatric patients about risks (emphasizing falls) of benzodiazepines, non-benzodiazepine hypnotics, and diphenhydramine  from a baseline reporting period.
  2. Improve your perceptions regarding geriatric patients' receptiveness to taper or discontinue the targeted medications (Likert-type scale) from a baseline-reporting period.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this session learns should be able to:

  1. Recognize the role primary care physicians play in the prescribing of benzodiazepines, non-benzodiazepine hypnotics, and diphenhydramine to geriatric patients.
  2. Link the use of benzodiazepines, non-benzodiazepine hypnotics, and diphenhydramine to falls among geriatric patients.
  3. Identify barriers and biases related to initiating medication deprescribing discussions in the primary care setting.
  4. Cite evidence that brief patient education on medication and falls can increase patients’ willingness to taper/discontinue use of benzodiazepines, non-benzodiazepine hypnotics, and diphenhydramine.
  5. Educate geriatric patients re: likelihood of benzodiazepines, non-benzodiazepine hypnotics, and diphenhydramine being associated with falls and their consequences as impacting patients’ function and quality of life. 
     
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    Aurora Health Care is accredited by the Wisconsin Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Aurora Health Care designates this activity for a maximum of 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Course opens: 
12/19/2017
Course expires: 
12/31/2019
Cost:
$0.00
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Available Credit

  • 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    Aurora Health Care is accredited by the Wisconsin Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Aurora Health Care designates this activity for a maximum of 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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