Description

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Specialties

Primary Care

Target Audience

This initiative is designed to address the professional needs of NPs and PAs involved in the care of adult patients.

Statement of Need

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is increasingly recognized as a key source of respiratory illness in older adults. In a 2022 Call to Action, the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) noted approximately 177,000 RSV-related hospitalizations each year in older adults, adding that patients ages 65 and older carry a much larger RSV-associated mortality burden than do children. Continuing education that brings clinicians on the front lines of preventative primary care up to speed on RSV immunization recommendations for adults and strategies for increasing vaccination rates in this population can contribute to an improved rate of coverage—and ultimately fewer adverse respiratory outcomes.

Learning Objectives

After participating in this education, learners will be able to:

• Summarize key aspects of current ACIP recommendations for RSV vaccinations in older adult patients, including patients at increased risk for severe RSV
• Review the most recent efficacy and safety data on FDA-approved RSV vaccines
• Identify underlying causes of vaccine fatigue and vaccine hesitancy

Speakers

Content Reviewer

Una Hopkins, DNP

Planners

Núria Waddington Negrão, PhD
Sapana Panday, MPH

CE Info

Disclosures

Financial Disclosures

The "Policy on Identification, Mitigation, and Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships" at Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Montefiore Medical Center mandates that all individuals, including faculty, who have control over content in CME/CE activities, must disclose any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies*, or the absence of such relationships, from the past 24 months to the audience. Any individual in control of content who refuses to disclose, or whose disclosed relationships prove to create a conflict of interest will be recused.

All financial relationships of individual(s) in a position to control the content of this CME/CE activity have been identified and mitigated prior to this educational activity.

*The ACCME defines an ineligible company as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.