Best Practices in IBD: Treatment Approaches
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Contemporary thinking about inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) treatment strategies is more proactive than reactive, based on the principle that inflammation should be controlled as early in possible in ...
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Contemporary thinking about inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) treatment strategies is more proactive than reactive, based on the principle that inflammation should be controlled as early in possible in the course of the disease. Immediate treatment goals are the control of symptoms, induction of remission, and improvement of quality of life (QoL), while long-term goals include maintenance of a corticosteroid-free clinical remission, mucosal healing, endoscopic remission, prevention or cure of complications, restoration and maintenance of proper nutrition, and improvement of QoL. Rather than following a standardized course of treatment, it is now understood that induction and maintenance regimens should be tailored to the severity of the individual patient’s disease activity. In this activity, Dr. Russell Cohen outlines the principles of IBD management in the context of a case scenario of a patient with ulcerative colitis.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be better able to:Describe biologic and nonbiologic treatments for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including their advantages and disadvantagesApply quality measures and quality outcome indicators to assess quality of care and responses to treatment
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