Using insulin pump for glycemic control in patients with severe insulin resistance.

Background: Patients with type 2 diabetes using a continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) often require large doses of insulin and need to change their insulin administration sets frequently. A proposed solution to this problem is to use concentrated insulin in their insulin pump; however, insulin pumps are programmed to administer U-100 insulin. Therefore, these patients are at greater risk of hypoglycemia and are responsible for adjusting daily doses.

Curriculum mapping of accredited pharmacy programs in the United States.

Introduction: No current guidance exists to inform the content area credit hours for doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) programs in the United States (US).

Methods: Public websites were accessed for all Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) accredited PharmD programs in the US to record the credit hours devoted to drug therapy, clinical skills, experiential learning, scholarship, social and administrative sciences, physiology/pathophysiology, pharmacogenomics, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, and pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics in the didactic curricula. Due to the high prevalence of programs that integrate drug therapy, pharmacology, and medicinal chemistry into a single course, we subdivided programs based upon whether drug therapy courses were "integrated" or "non-integrated.