These courses are intended for internal hospital staff.

Activity Description:

The purpose of the Morbidity and Mortality Conference is to provide a safe venue for Presbyterian St Luke's staff to identify areas of improvement, and promote professionalism, ethical integrity and transparency in assessing and improving patient care. The Morbidity and Mortality Conference presents cases in which a reportable event occurred, a conflict of importance occurred, and/or an event in which a mortality occurred. The discussion and analysis of the event(s) at the M&M conference contribute to a broader workflow, to establish and propose more effective guidelines in patient care.

Target Audience:

Specialties - Hematology/Oncology, Oncology, Pathology

Learning Objective:

• Implement evidence based medicine techniques and best practices
• Apply knowledge of established and evolving basic and applied clinical sciences that relate to the practice of Hematology
• Review case presentations and relate clinical guidelines and concepts that could be used to improve patient outcomes

Moderator:

Richard Nash, MD

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies.*

*Ineligible companies – Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Accreditation:

The HCA Healthcare Continental Division is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

Credit Designation:

The HCA Healthcare Continental Division designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1^TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Commercial Support:  

This Activity was developed without support from any ineligible company.*The ACCME defines ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Note: The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests – unless the provider of clinical services is owned, or controlled by, and ACCME defined ineligible company.

Disclosure: 

The HCA Healthcare Continental Division is committed to providing CME that is balanced, objective, and evidenced-based. In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Standards for Integrity and Independence all parties involved in content development are required to disclose all conflicts of interest with ACCME defined ineligible companies. The HCA Healthcare Continental Division has identified, reviewed, and mitigated all conflicts of interest that speakers, authors, course directors, planners, peer reviewers, or relevant staff disclose prior to the delivery of any educational activity. The CME planning committee who are in a position to control the content of this CME Activity, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.