DXA Troubleshooting Course

DXA Troubleshooting Course is organized by National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF).

Start Date: May 15, 2019
Expiration Date: Dec 31, 2021 

Accreditation:
The National Osteoporosis Foundation is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The National Osteoporosis Foundation designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The National Osteoporosis Foundation is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. The National Osteoporosis Foundation designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 continuing nursing education credit(s).

Other healthcare providers will also be able to receive a certificate of completion; nurse practitioners and physician assistants may request an AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ certificate of participation.

Course Description:
This session will go into detail about bone densitometry and understanding how to tell poor quality and work on solutions.

Learning Objectives:
• Define quality in bone densitometry
• Summarize evidence of how widespread the problem of poor quality 
• Classify the sources of poor quality
• Develop a tool-kit of methods to identify or rule out quality issues
• Evaluate a series of case studies for quality
• Propose solutions to improve quality of testing on your patients