Evidence-Based Update on Crohn’s Disease

Post Test
A score of 70% must be achieved to receive continuing education credits.
1. Crohn’s disease (CD) mainly affects people between the ages of 15 and 35.
  True
 False
2. In retrospective studies, 25% of patients accounted for 80% of the total charges.
  True
 False
3. Characteristics of moderate Crohn’s disease include:
 a. No symptoms outside the digestive tract
 b. Frequent loose to liquid bowel movements daily with blood in stool
 c. Abdominal pain
 d. Systemic symptoms of inflammation
 e. All of the above
4. There are 3 drugs approved for treating Crohn’s disease.
 True
 False
5. Most patients with CD will eventually develop a stricturing or a perforating complication.
 True
 False
6. Conventional therapies include
 a.Antibiotics
 b. Corticosteroids
 c. Budesonide
d. Aminosalicylates
 e. Surgery
 f, Immunosuppressants
 g.All of the above
7.  Evaluation of treatment success in the Top-Down/Step Up Therapy showed the difference in top down and step up groups in immunosuppressant use began to narrow after 60 weeks
 True
 False
8 Infliximab was the first biologic approved for the treatment of CD
True
 False
9 Post analysis of ACCENT 1 data showed overall efficacy was better with scheduled strategy of infliximab than episodic treatment.
 True
 False
10 Accent II trials showed 77% of patients had lost treatment response within 24 months of initiation of therapy.
 True
 False
11 Adalimumab, a fully human anti-TNF, has FDA indications for patients if they have lost response to or are intolerant to infliximab.
True
 False
12 Future biologic therapies include:
 a. Innate immunity activators
 b. Adhesion molecule inhibitors
 c. Th-1 polarization inhibitors
 d. Anti-inflammatory cytokines receptors
 e. All of the above

 

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Due to the content of this activity, I will change my practice patterns by:

Reviewing current plan guideline for the treatment of Crohn's Disease
Providing appropriate education on the importance of case management in treating CD
Identifying patients for appropriate treatments to improve remission rates
My practice patterns will not change

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