Continuing Risks

Continuing reassessment of the risks of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents in patients with cancer.

PURPOSE Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESA) are approved for the treatment of anemia in patients with nonmyeloid malignancies whose anemia is due to the effect of concomitantly administered chemotherapy. Since the 1993 approval of epoetin alfa in patients with cancer, the risk of thrombovascular events, decreased survival, and poorer tumor control have been increasingly recognized. The risk...

Continuing Education of Medical Community

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Foundations of Continuing Education An Anatomy of Continuing Interprofessional Education

Continuing interprofessional education is the means by which experienced health, social care, and other practitioners learn with, from, and about each other, formally and informally, to improve their collective practice and to cultivate closer collaboration. It applies principles of interprofessional education through media commonly employed in continuing professional education grounded in team...

Continuing medical education and continuing professional development: international comparisons.

Foundations of Continuing Education An Overview of Continuing Interprofessional Education

Interprofessional education, continuing interprofessional education, interprofessional collaboration, and interprofessional care are moving to the forefront of approaches with the potential to reorganize the delivery of health professions education and health care practice. This article discusses 7 key trends in the scholarship and practice of interprofessional education: conceptual clarity, qu...