Expert faculty in this CME Outfitters Live and On Demand activity will narrow these gaps by highlighting how to implement an assessment and diagnosis of OIC, assess and select a treatment plan to include new and emerging agents, and create a strategy to proactively engage patients in conversations regarding bowel management.

At the end of this CE activity, participants should be able to:

• Create and employ a strategy to adequately identify and diagnose opioid-induced constipation (OIC) in patients who utilize opioids.
• Assess and select treatment options for patients with opioid-induced constipation (OIC).
• Execute a communication plan by routinely asking patients about their bowel patterns while taking opioids in order to identify, prevent, and monitor opioid-induced constipation (OIC).

The following learning objectives pertain only to those requesting CNE credit:

• Discuss strategies to adequately identify and diagnose OIC.
• Review treatment options for patients with OIC.
• Evaluate a communications plan to routinely ask patients about their bowel patterns while on opioids in order to identify, prevent, and monitor OIC.

Physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, nurses, and other health care professionals who manage patients with opioid-induced constipation.

There is no fee for this activity.    

To register, please click here.

CME Credit (Physicians):
CME Outfitters, LLC, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CME Outfitters, LLC, designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CNE Credit (Nurses):
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 15510, for 1.5 contact hours.

Note to Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Nurse Specialists: the content of this activity pertains to pharmacology. Earn up to 1.5 contact hours of pharmacotherapeutic contact hours.

CPE Credit (Pharmacists):

CME Outfitters, LLC, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. 1.5 contact hours (0.15 CEUs)

Universal Activity Number: 0376-0000-15-018-L01-P (live programs)

0376-0000-15-018-H01-P (recorded programs)

Activity Type: knowledge-based