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ForwardNovember 2025: Forum for Evidence-Based Medicine
Activity description
Practicing evidence-based medicine (EBM) is important in today’s health care environment because this model of care offers clinicians a way to enrich quality, provide patient satisfaction, reduce costs and improve outcomes. A common implementation of EBM involves the use of clinical practice algorithms during medical decision-making to encourage optimal care. This widely recognized practice is designed to address the persistent problem of clinical practice variation with the help of actionable information at the point of care. These e-newsletters will enable health care professionals (HCPs) to put new EBM into practice.
Provided by
This activity is provided by Optum Health Education and Optum.
Commercial support
No commercial support was received for this activity.
Hardware/Software Requirements
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Target Audience
This activity is designed to meet the educational needs of physicians, PAs, nurses, nurse practitioners, and other HCPs who are interested in applying evidence-based medicine to the management of gastrointestinal, metabolic, cardiovascular, and neurologic conditions.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this educational activity, participants should be able to:
- Discuss and apply evidence-based guidelines to the diagnosis and management of uncomplicated diverticulitis in adults, with a focus on reducing low-value care, minimizing unnecessary antibiotic use and promoting patient-centered, cost-effective treatment strategies.
- Describe the emerging role of glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), particularly semaglutide, in the treatment of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), including their impact on steatohepatitis resolution, fibrosis reduction and associated metabolic outcomes, based on recent clinical trial evidence.
- Assess the efficacy, safety and clinical potential of lorundrostat, a direct aldosterone synthase inhibitor, in the management of uncontrolled hypertension and compare its therapeutic profile with established fourth-line agents such as mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) and amiloride.
- Examine long-term neurologic and mortality outcomes associated with GLP-1 RA therapy in obese patients with type 2 diabetes, and explore potential mechanisms underlying observed reductions in dementia, stroke and overall mortality.
- Recognize current evidence-based strategies to assess cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risk, including the use of validated scoring systems for patent foramen ovale (PFO)-related stroke and coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) for guiding preventive therapy to optimize individualized patient care and reduce unnecessary interventions.
Additional Information
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Faculty and planners
Rebecca Gleason, RN, CCM
Activity Manager
Optum Health Education
Ken Roy Cohen, MD, FACP
Executive Director of Clinical Research
UnitedHealth Group, Research and Development
Senior National Medical Director
Optum
Joshua Jacobs, MD, FAAFP
National Medical Director, Provider Intelligence
Clinical Performance, Optum
Prakash Jayakumar, MD, PhD
Senior Medical Director, Specialist Engagement & Precision Health
Optum
Disclosures of relevant financial relationships
In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education's (ACCME) Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, Optum Health Education (OHE) requires all those in control of educational content to disclose their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. Ineligible companies are defined by the ACCME as companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care products used by or on patients. Individuals must disclose all financial relationships, regardless of the amount, with ineligible companies and regardless of their view of the relevance of the relationship to the education. OHE ensures that the content is independent of commercial bias.
The faculty and planners have no financial relationships to disclose.
Method for calculating CE credit
CE credit was calculated by the complexity of content.
Accreditation statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Optum Health Education and Optum. Optum Health Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the health care team.
Credit designation statements
Nurses
The participant will be awarded up to 1.00 contact hour(s) of credit for attendance and completion of supplemental materials.
This activity is designated for 1.00 ANCC pharmacotherapeutic contact hours.
Nurse practitioners
The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program (AANPCP) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME and ANCC.
Physicians
Optum Health Education designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
American Board of Internal Medicine
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.0 Medical Knowledge Maintenance of Certification (MOC) points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) MOC program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
Please note, by claiming ABIM points, you authorize Optum Health Education to share your attendance information with the ABIM.
PAs
The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME.
Attendance
A certificate of attendance will be provided to learners upon completion of activity requirements, enabling participants to register with licensing boards or associations that have not been pre-approved for credits. To apply for credit types not listed above, participants should use the procedure established by the specific organization with which they wish to obtain credit.
Available Credit
- 1.00 ABIM MOC - Physicians
- 1.00 AMA - Physicians
- 1.00 ANCC - Nurses
- 1.00 Attendance - General Attendance
These materials are intended ONLY for those who read the E-newsletter "Forum for Evidence-Based Medicine."
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