• Apply best evidence in the management of hypertension.
  
• Select the appropriate antihypertensive medications to achieve BP goals for patients.
  
• Consider the additive effect of diabetes mellitus and renal disease in patient management.
  
• Use current clinical recommendations to manage hypertension in elderly patients.
  
• Evaluate and manage back pain.
  
• Select age appropriate interventions for the management of pain in the elderly.
• Implement safe prescribing practices.
  
• Apply best practice guidelines in the management of non-cancerous pain.
  
• Use anti-infective therapy to reduce the risk of MRSA and other pathogens in critically ill patients.
  
• Identify and manage emerging infectious diseases.
  
• Diagnose and manage active tuberculosis.
  
• Prevent the spread of tuberculosis.
  
• Diagnose and manage clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD).
  
• Prevent clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD).
  
• Identify the needed elements required to correctly code visits based on the complexity of the encounter.
  
• Use mnemonics to aid in efficiencies in patient encounters and office flow.
  
• Differentiate the data elements clinically important to arriving at the medical decisions of a patient interaction.
  
• Identify several clinical examples of risk and the weight each carries as they pertain to their impact on medical decision making.
  
• Use the degree of medical decision making as the basis for the charge for the encounter.
  
• Outline operational strategies to aid in practice financial sustainability.
  
• Identify benchmarking data for comparisons to evaluate your specific practice efficiencies.
  
• Use coding pearls that apply to primary care to correctly capture all revenue.
  

"This activity has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 17.00 Prescribed credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians."