Publications by authors named "Alyse Mann"
Article Synopsis
- Long-term use of glucocorticoids can lead to adverse drug reactions, including diabetes, known as glucocorticoid-induced diabetes mellitus (GID), which can be monitored through an HbA1C test.
- This study aimed to improve the screening for GID in chronic glucocorticoid users among US veterans by providing primary care providers with automatic HbA1C test orders.
- Results showed that providers who received the intervention signed orders significantly faster (mean 12 days) compared to those who received standard care (mean 104 days), indicating the effectiveness of the pharmacist-triggered order system in enhancing GID screening.
Objective: To assess the accuracy of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, and Current Procedural Terminology codes for identifying cardiovascular (CV) events (myocardial infarction [MI], stroke, coronary artery bypass graft [CABG], and percutaneous coronary intervention [PCI]) in enrollees of the Veterans Affairs Rheumatoid Arthritis (VARA) registry.
Design: We performed a validation study from VARA enrollment until 6/1/2010 to compare the accuracy of CV events in those with and without CV-event coding in inpatient and outpatient records to evaluate for CV events +/- 3 months of the coding. The positive predictive value (PPV) was calculated, and codes with a PPV ≥50% were included in a composite coding algorithm.