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Number 6 / Nov-Dec 2009
Scott Drab
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OBJECTIVES: To examine the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and American College of Endocrinology (ACE)/American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) diabetes guidelines and identify key areas for increased pharmacist involvement to allow more effective implementation of target glycemic goals. DATA SOURCES:...
Erin Mullen, Gary H Smith, Adriane N Irwin, Mark Angeles
American Pharmacists Association
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OBJECTIVE: To convene a group of expert stakeholders to develop recommendations for standardizing systems for the implementation of risk evaluation and mitigation strategies (REMS). DATA SOURCES: On July 15, 2009, the American Pharmacists Association convened an expert panel of stakeholders to...
Tara L Jenkins, Donald L Harrison, Elgene W Jacobs, Barbara R Neas, Tracy M Hagemann
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OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the economic effect of a pharmacy benefit expansion on a population of Oklahoma Medicaid recipients and to determine whether recipients who routinely maximized their monthly prescription limit (cap) before the benefit expansion benefited more from the expansion than...
Steven A Blackwell, Melissa A Montgomery, Dan Waldo, David K Baugh, Gary M Ciborowski, David Gibson
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OBJECTIVES: To address the association between inappropriate prescribing for the elderly and adverse outcomes and to identify the magnitude of the cost of medication-associated injury in this population. DESIGN: Cross sectional. SETTING: United States, 2003. PATIENTS: 5,412,678 dually...
Richard A Hansen, Stacie B Dusetzina, Liping Song, Bradley N Gaynes, Wanzhu Tu, Michael D Murray
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OBJECTIVES: To assess the influence of depressive symptoms on adherence with heart failure medications and to determine whether the effect of a pharmacy-based intervention to improve heart failure medication adherence is modified by depressive symptoms. DESIGN: Secondary analysis of data...
Sandhya Mehta, Saurabh Nagar, Rajender Aparasu
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OBJECTIVES: To examine the nature and extent of unmet prescription medication need (UPMN) in children and its predictors using the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH). DESIGN: Retrospective cross-sectional survey. SETTING: United States in 2003-2004. PARTICIPANTS: Parents...
Mark P Walberg, Rajul A Patel
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OBJECTIVES: To determine the (1) potential cost difference (opportunity cost [OC]) to Medicare-eligible beneficiaries enrolled in the lowest-cost standalone prescription drug plan (PDP) in 2007 between the cost of such plan in 2008 and the lowest-cost plan in...
Jeff Taylor, Charity Evans
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OBJECTIVE: To gauge how community pharmacists will approach questions from the public after Canada begins requiring product labels to state that cough and cold medications should not be used in children younger than 6 years of age. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study....
Catherine H Kuhn, Kristin A Casper, Tara R Green
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OBJECTIVE: To assess grocery store patrons' perceptions of a comprehensive medication review (CMR) compared with traditional prescription medication counseling. DESIGN: Self-administered survey. SETTING: Eight central Ohio grocery stores during January through April 2007. PARTICIPANTS: Grocery store patrons. INTERVENTION: Survey events....
Anandaroop Dasgupta, Sujit S Sansgiry, Jeff T Sherer, David Wallace, Samir Sikri
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Objective: To evaluate pharmacists' behavioral intention to use personal digital assistants (PDAs) in their profession, by means of the Extended Technology Acceptance Model (ETAM).Design: Prospective cross-sectional study.Setting: Hospital and community pharmacies in Houston, TX, in 2004.Participants: Convenience...
Fadi M Alkhateeb, Elizabeth Unni, David Latif, Mohammad S Shawaqfeh, Rabaa M Al-Rousan
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OBJECTIVES: To (1) investigate physicians' expectations about community pharmacist's roles and physician attitudes toward collaborative agreements with community pharmacists in West Virginia and (2) determine physicians' perceptions of pharmacists providing medication therapy management (MTM) services. METHODS: A mail survey was...
Curtis A Johnson, Nora Stieglitz, Mark E Schroeder
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BACKGROUND: American medical mission teams commonly travel to developing countries for short-term provision of clinical services. Although medications play an important role in the work of these teams, how to plan and organize a mission field pharmacy has been seldom...
William Hitch, Matthew Ransom
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OBJECTIVE: To support a medical team, organized by Shoulder to Shoulder, with pharmacy services in an effort to expand ongoing health care to a rural community in Honduras. SETTING: Pharmacy services in a temporary medical clinic in a schoolhouse in Colomarigua,...
Shelly Winston, Yu-Shen Lin
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OBJECTIVE: To describe experiences with medication therapy management (MTM) services delivered to benefciaries of Mirixa's health plan clients. SETTING: United States during 2007. PRACTICE DESCRIPTION: Three intervention modalities were offered to provide MTM services: community pharmacy, pharmacist-staffed call centers,...
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Dennis B Worthen
Jon Badger, Jilan Kubusek, Mary S Hayney
Daniel A Hussar
L Douglas Ried