Conflict of Interest (COI) Disclosure

As an accredited CME provider, the University of Wisconsin-Madison requires that all persons in a position to control the content of an accredited activity, comply with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Continuing Education as follows:  

• Disclose all financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies* that you have/had in the past 24 months. 

• Provide content that presents a fair and balanced view of diagnostic and therapeutic options, by ensuring:

  • All recommendations for patient care are based on current science, evidence, and clinical reasoning.  

  • All scientific research referred to, reported, or used in support or justification of a patient care recommendation must conform to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation.

  • New and evolving topics for which there is a lower (or absent) evidence base are clearly identified as such within the education and individual presentations. 

  • The content avoids advocating for, or promoting, practices that are not, or not yet, adequately based on current science, evidence, and clinical reasoning. 

  • The content excludes any advocacy for, or promotion of, unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or recommendations, treatment or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients. 

• Inform UW-Madison ICEP and the audience whenever you will discuss unlabeled or unapproved uses of drugs or devices in your presentation. 

• Inform UW-Madison ICEP when you will use patient and/or research subject identifiers in your presentation. 

* It is the policy of the University of Wisconsin−Madison ICEP to ensure that the content does NOT contain any marketing produced by or for an ineligible company,* including corporate or product logos, trade names or product group messages.  Generic or scientific names of medications and medical devices are used wherever possible and practical to promote impartiality. If a trade name of a medication/device is used, the first reference for all medications/devices discussed in the activity should include the generic name together with the trade name, and subsequent references should use only the generic name.