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9/8/26 - Medical Grand Rounds: Prescribing Wisely-Exploring Ways to Optimize Medication Decisions in the Hospital and the Transition Home

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Credit Hours: 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Educational Objectives:

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

  • Improve detection of gaps in chronic disease prescribing among hospitalized patients
  • Implement recommended guidelines when long-term medications for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and alcohol use disorder
  • Reduce the overtreatment of asymptomatic elevated blood pressure in hospitalized patients.

Suggested Additional Reading:

  1. Bessette LG, Magnani JW, Brooks MM, Mayrer BM, Hileman-Kaplan E, Gallman GD, Swanson SA, Anderson TS. Initiation, Adherence, and Persistence to Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy After Heart Failure Hospitalization. JAMA Intern Med. 2026 Jul 20:e262908. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2026.2908. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42475075; PMCID: PMC13386306.
  2. Anderson TS, Purkayastha S, Bernstein EY, Parr A, Mor MK, Bachrach RL, Gellad WF, Hausmann LRM, Fine MJ, Essien UR. Initiation of Medications for Alcohol Use Disorder Among Hospitalized Veterans : A Retrospective Cohort Study. Ann Intern Med. 2026 Jun;179(6):794-803. doi: 10.7326/ANNALS-26-00089. Epub 2026 May 5. PMID: 42081820; PMCID: PMC13524201.

Authors:
Timothy Anderson, MD, MAS — Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director, Clinician-Researcher Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh's Center for Research on Health Care, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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.

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

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