Individualized Education Program Team Members' Perceptions of Music Therapy: An Interpretivist Investigation.

Although music therapists are often members of the Individualized Education Program (IEP) team in educational settings, there is a lack of research exploring IEP members' perceptions of music therapy. The purpose of this interpretivist study was to understand the perceptions IEP team members have of music therapy in educational settings; 8 professionals from a single school district who had experience working with music therapists as part of the IEP team participated in an individual semi-structured interview. We used in-vivo coding, an inductive approach to thematic analysis, and member and peer checking.

Taking an Antibiotic Time-out: Utilization and Usability of a Self-Stewardship Time-out Program for Renewal of Vancomycin and Piperacillin-Tazobactam.

Background: Antibiotic time-outs can promote critical thinking and greater attention to reviewing indications for continuation.

Objective: We pilot tested an antibiotic time-out program at a tertiary care teaching hospital where vancomycin and piperacillin-tazobactam continuation past day 3 had previously required infectious diseases service approval.

Methods: The time-out program consisted of 3 components: (1) an electronic antimicrobial dashboard that aggregated infection-relevant clinical data; (2) a templated note in the electronic medical record that included a structured review of antibiotic indications and that provided automatic approval of continuation of therapy when indicated; and (3) an educational and social marketing campaign.

Measuring use of psychotropic drugs in Veterans Affairs community living centers.

Objective: To create an electronic reporting tool able to capture psychotropic medication use by residents admitted to Veterans Affairs (VA) community living centers (CLCs) and to compare data on frequency of use.

Design: Retrospective analysis using an electronic medical record (EMR) database.

Setting: CLCs within the Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 21, which encompasses northern Nevada, northern California, and Hawaii.

Comparative efficacy of ezetimibe/simvastatin, rosuvastatin, and atorvastatin in uncontrolled hyperlipidemia patients.

Objective: Treatment of dyslipidemia in high-risk patients specifies a low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol <100 mg/dL. The efficacy of higher-potency regimens in clinical practice in patients who have not achieved their LDL goal on generic therapy is not well characterized. The primary objective of this study was to determine the LDL-lowering efficacy of higher-potency strategies (ezetimibe/simvastatin, rosuvastatin, and atorvastatin) in high-risk patients who were switched from simvastatin therapy.