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Description

Method of Participation in the Learning Process/Evaluation Method

Successful completion of this activity includes reading the entire article and successfully completing the post-quiz and an evaluation form.

Getting the Most out of the Activity

As you prepare to participate in this activity, please reflect on your practice and your patients and identify clinical challenges you hope to have addressed.

While participating in the training, identify ways you can use newly acquired knowledge, strategies, and skills to enhance patient outcomes and your own professional development.

Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education activity you will be able to:

  1. Differentiate modifiable and nonmodifiable patient risk factors for proximal junctional kyphosis.
  2. Assess proposed pathophysiological mechanisms for proximal junctional kyphosis.
  3. Interpret the various classification schemes for proximal junctional kyphosis.

Disclosures

The authors, faculty, and staff in a position to control the content of this CME activity, and their spouses/life partners (if any), have disclosed that they have no financial relationships with, or financial interests in, any commercial organizations relevant to this CME activity.

Price: $49.00

Credits:

  • ACCME 2.0 CME

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Planner
Professions: Physician
Test Code: CNE1118
Published: November 30, 2018
Expires: 1/1/2026
Sources: Contemporary Neurosurgery
Required Passing Score: 7/10 (70%)
Authors: Thomas J. Buell, MD, Avery K. Buchholz, MD, MPH, John C. Quinn, MD, Regis W. Haid Jr, MD, Shay Bess, MD, Virginie Lafage, PhD, Frank Schwab, MD, Christopher I. Shaffrey, MD, and Justin S. Smith, MD, PhD
Categories: Spine
Specialties: Neurological Surgery
Topics: Adjacent Segment Disease , Proximal Junctional Kyphosis