Impact of Point of Care Hemoglobin A1c Testing on Time to Therapeutic Intervention.

Without compromising accuracy, point of care testing (POCT) provides immediate results at the time of in person patient consultation. The purpose of this study was to evaluate time until therapeutic intervention with POCT HbA1c versus venipuncture, where venipuncture was considered standard of care.The primary outcome was time (hours) to implementation of a therapeutic intervention based on POCT HbA1c result, as compared with most recent venipuncture HbA1c before the study and its associated therapeutic intervention.

Student knowledge, confidence, and perceptions prior to and following an inhaler and tobacco cessation simulation.

Background And Purpose: To assess knowledge, perceptions, and confidence of second-year pharmacy students regarding implementation of an innovative inhaler and tobacco cessation simulation.

Educational Activity And Setting: A simulation was created that required students to counsel a standardized patient concomitantly on an inhaler prescription and tobacco cessation. To assess the primary outcome of student perceptions and confidence, a survey was administered pre- and post-simulation.

Dasiglucagon: A Novel Ready-to-Use Treatment for Severe Hypoglycemia.

Objective: To review dasiglucagon, a novel glucagon analogue approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treatment of severe hypoglycemia in 2021.

Data Sources: A literature search using the PubMed database (current to March 2022) and ClinicalTrials.gov was conducted using the search term .

Establishment and evaluation of scalable COVID-19 vaccine clinics at a large university.

Background: Previous large-scale vaccination clinics have been successful before the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic; however, owing to the strict storage requirements and pharmaceutical preparation needed for the COVID-19 vaccines, careful thought and planning were necessary to successfully deploy these clinics immediately after vaccine availability. The focus of this manuscript is to describe the development and implementation of COVID-19 vaccination clinics in a large public university, using professionals from within and outside of its health sciences schools.

Objectives: The primary objective of this project was to (1) implement COVID-19 vaccination clinics for university faculty, staff, students, and community members.