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Original Release Date: 01/24/2025
Expires: 03/31/2027
Credit claim for this activity will end at 11:59 PM 03/31/2027

Overview: 

KDIGO Clinical Practice Guidelines have been updated, and significant changes were made to the way providers evaluate, determine and document Acute Kidney Injury, Chronic Kidney Disease and Acid-Base and Electrolyte Disorders. 

In contrast to how clinicians use documentation within the medical record, payers’ and governmental agencies’ use documentation within the medical record to ensure resources were utilized appropriately and to evaluate the quality of care provided. 

Target Audience:  Physicians, Specialty Physicians, Fellows, Residents,  Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists across the system.

Objectives: After participating in this activity, the learner should be able to:

Documenting Acute Kidney Injury & Acute Tubular Necrosis 

  • Identify diagnostic criteria for Acute Kidney Injury and, Acute Tubular Necrosis
  • Recognize how accurate documentation impacts -quality measures, patient care & outcomes and, public reporting
  • Apply the strategies learned to accurately document acute kidney disorders

Documenting Chronic Kidney Disease  

  • Recognize the importance of diagnosing, classifying and documenting chronic kidney diseases (CKD) and related diagnoses
  • Identify the current diagnostic and staging criteria for CKD
  • Identify the need and impact of accurate coding of these conditions

Documenting Acid-Base and Electrolyte Disorders 

  • Recognize why laboratory (lab) abnormality queries are sent
  • Review the most queried acid-base and electrolyte abnormalities

 

Planners/Authors:  This activity was planned, reviewed, edited, and approved for use as the curriculum for the Baylor Scott & White Health organization by:

Mary Brouwer - MSA, BSN, RN, CPC, CCDS

Sunita Varghees, MD

Luis Concepcion, MD

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships:

Each person in control of content has disclosed that she/he have no financial relationships with any companies who primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

•This content is not related to products or business lines of an ACCME-defined ineligible company*.
•There are no relevant financial relationships with ACCME-defined ineligible company for anyone who was in control of the content of this activity.

*In the ACCME System (ineligible companies) are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients

Method of Participation & Request for CME/MOC Credit:

•Read all instructions and activity information
•View the slides in their entirety
•Complete the quiz with in the module with 100% accuracy.
•Instructions to evaluate and claim credit(s) for the activity will be provided on the final slide of the activity.
•Post activity, Click on the link to be taken to evaluation and credit claim for the course or follow the link sent in an email from [email protected]  to complete all questions on the evaluation and claim credit.

This CME activity type is an enduring material.  Physicians who complete the enduring material may claim the full amount of credit designated for the activity, regardless of the amount of time it took the physicians to complete the activity.

CME:
Accreditation: The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation: The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ABIM MOC: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.0 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

MOC NOTE TO LEARNER:  By completing the credit claim process for MOC credit, you are giving the A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health your permission to transmit your completion data to the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and to your certifying board(s).

Commercial Support:  No commercial support was received for this activity.