Closing the disparity gap and optimizing advanced hepatocellular carcinoma care in the hispanic community.

Content available: Author Interview and Audio Recording.

The RightSTEPS initiative: Continuing education impact on clinicians' optimal medical therapy practices for chronic heart failure.

Purpose: Despite the existence of expert recommendations that can improve morbidity and mortality, reduce the need for hospitalization or readmission, and enhance quality of life in patients with heart failure (HF), many patients do not receive optimal medical therapy (OMT). The goal of this initiative, titled RightSTEPS, was to help physicians take the right steps to apply-evidence-based HF management strategies in clinical practice.

Methods: Using the PRECEDE-PROCEED Model aimed at improving the clinical behavior of the learner, the instructional design featured 23 online and live face-to-face activities offering up to 16 credit hours of CME/CNE credit.

Identifying Educational Needs of the Multidisciplinary Cancer Team in the Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer.

Rapid advancements in the field of metastatic breast cancer (mBC) add to the complexity of managing patients with this disease. An educational needs assessment of multidisciplinary mBC clinicians was executed to identify practice performance gaps and recommend educational strategies aimed at closing these gaps. To ensure a collection of reliable data for assessment, a systematic process was used to design, develop, and validate the tools that were used.