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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

This activity is directed to physicians who take care of hospitalized children, medical students, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants working in the emergency room, intensive care unit, or hospital wards.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Review the figures in the paper Association Between Statewide School Closure and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality in the US.
  • Review the reasons for the statistical methods used in the paper Association Between Statewide School Closure and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality in the US.
  • Review the implications of the findings in the paper Association Between Statewide School Closure and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality in the US.

 

There is no educational content to this course. This course is designed to only administer the post-test and collect CME evaluations for the podcast associated with this training.

Suggested Additional Reading:

  1. Auger KA, Shah SS, Richardson T, et al. Association Between Statewide School Closure and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality in the US. JAMA. 2020;324(9):859–870. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.14348
  2. Donohue JM, Miller E. COVID-19 and School Closures. JAMA. 2020;324(9):845–847. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.13092
  3. Prem K, Liu Y, Russell TW, et al. The effect of control strategies to reduce social mixing on outcomes of the COVID-19 epidemic in Wuhan, China: a modelling study [published correction appears in Lancet Public Health. 2020 May;5(5):e260]. Lancet Public Health. 2020;5(5):e261-e270. doi:10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30073-6

Authors:
Katherine Auger, MD, MS. — Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
Tony R. Tarchichi, MD — Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC.) Paul C. Gaffney Diagnostic Referral Group
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.