Laboratory Testing in Urgent Care: Best Practices for Choosing and Interpreting Respiratory and Genitourinary Tests (ObGyn CME and Infectious Disease CME)

CME Information

Date of Original Release: November 1, 2025. Date of most recent review: October 15, 2025. Termination date: November 1, 2028.

Accreditation: EB Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation: EB Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Specialty CME: Included as part of the 4 credits, this CME activity is eligible for 2 ObGyn CME and 2 Infectious Disease CME credits, subject to your state and institutional requirements.

AAFP Accreditation: The AAFP has reviewed Evidence- Based Urgent Care and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. Term of approval is from 11/01/2025 to 10/31/2026. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This session, Laboratory Testing in Urgent Care: Best Practices for Choosing and Interpreting Respiratory and Genitourinary Tests, is approved for 4.0 enduring material AAFP Prescribed credits.

AOA Accreditation: Evidence-Based Urgent Care is eligible for 4 Category 2-B credit hours per issue by the American Osteopathic Association.

Needs Assessment: The need for this educational activity was determined by a practice gap analysis; a survey of medical staff; review of morbidity and mortality data from the CDC, AHA, NCHS, and ACEP; and evaluation responses from prior educational activities for urgent care and emergency medicine physicians.

Target Audience: This internet enduring material is designed for physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and residents in the urgent care and family practice settings.

Goals: Upon completion of this activity, you should be able to: (1) identify areas in practice that require modification to be consistent with current evidence in order to improve competence and performance; (2) develop strategies to accurately diagnose and treat both common and critical urgent care presentations; and (3) demonstrate informed medical decision-making based on the strongest clinical evidence.

CME Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, learners should be able to: (1) explain the advantages and disadvantages of various types of diagnostic tests available to the urgent care clinician; (2) develop a diagnostic and treatment plan for common upper respiratory tract infections and genitourinary complaints in the urgent care; and (3) distinguish between pathogens and flora when considering the patient presentation and diagnostic test results.

Discussion of Investigational Information: As part of the activity, faculty may be presenting investigational information about pharmaceutical products that is outside Food and Drug Administration approved labeling. Information presented as part of this activity is intended solely as continuing medical education and is not intended to promote off-label use of any pharmaceutical product.

Disclosure: It is the policy of EB Medicine to ensure objectivity, balance, independence, transparency, and scientific rigor in all CME activities. All individuals in a position to control content have disclosed all financial relationships with ACCME-defined ineligible companies. EB Medicine has as-sessed all relationships with ineligible companies disclosed, identified those financial relationships deemed relevant, and appropriately mitigated all relevant financial relationships based on each individual’s role(s). Please find disclosure information for this activity below:

Planners

• Tracey Quail Davidoff, MD (Editor-in-Chief): o Pfizer (consulting fees)
  • Binx Health (independent contractor)
  • AstraZeneca (consultant/advisor)
  • GSK (consultant/advisor)

Faculty

• Christopher Chao, MD (Author): o Biomerieux (consultant/advisor; compensation for service on advisory board)
  • Pfizer (compensation for service on advisory board)
  • AstraZeneca (consultant/advisor; honoraria for papers, lectures, or teaching)
  • Abbott (compensation for service on advisory board)
• Joseph Hwang, PA-C (Author): o GSK (honoraria for papers, lectures, or teaching)
• Omar Ghazanfar, MD (Peer Reviewer): Nothing to Disclose
• Sean M. McNeeley, MD (Peer Reviewer): Nothing to Disclose
• Bradley Laymon, PA-C (Coding Challenge Author): Nothing to Disclose
• Anneke Smith, MS (Content Editor): Nothing to Disclose
• Angie Wallace (Content Editor): Nothing to Disclose

Commercial Support: This issue of Evidence-Based Urgent Care did not receive any commercial support.

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