Characteristics associated with perceived level of confidence managing diabetes among United States adults with diabetes: A retrospective cross-sectional study.

Objectives: Identifying characteristics associated with patients' confidence managing diabetes may aid the primary care provider in offering diabetes self-management education and support to patients. This analysis assessed the relationship between demographic, health, economic, access to care, satisfaction with care, and healthcare utilization characteristics with patients' confidence managing diabetes.

Methods: United States adults with diabetes in the 2020 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey were included in this retrospective cross-sectional analysis.

Accuracy of a chatbot in answering questions that patients should ask before taking a new medication.

Background: The potential uses of artificial intelligence have extended into the fields of health care delivery and education. However, challenges are associated with introducing innovative technologies into health care, particularly with respect to information quality.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of answers provided by a chatbot in response to questions that patients should ask before taking a new medication.

Understanding faculty perceptions and experiences related to climate, diversity, equity, and inclusion at a college of pharmacy: A pilot study.

Introduction: A climate survey was piloted to obtain an understanding of the perceptions and personal experiences of faculty for intentional planning of future meaningful, effective, and sustainable diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts at a college of pharmacy.

Methods: A 48-item, four section, online survey was developed and administered to 69 faculty between October and November 2021. Likert-like five-point scales and free-text items were included to determine an overall assessment of climate, as well as perceptions and/or personal experiences for each domain of DEI, and demographics.

Comparison of pharmacy student performance in a self-care therapeutics course conducted as a flipped classroom on-campus and remotely.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic required the University of Arizona R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy's Self-Care Therapeutics course to be taught as a synchronous, live online course. The course has traditionally utilized a flipped-classroom to increase student engagement and improve learning performance.

Assessing the Association of Hispanic Ethnicity and Other Personal Characteristics with Pharmacy School Admissions.

Access to healthcare services for underrepresented minority populations can be improved by having a diverse profession that reflects the diversity of the patient population being served. The criteria used for pharmacy school admissions may inhibit or strengthen the opportunities that URM students have to be accepted into the University of Arizona R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy (COP) program.

Pharmacy Students' Experiences with an Interactive Video Platform to Develop Clinical Reasoning.

Activities used to evaluate clinical reasoning include the use of standardized patients, role play, and case studies. To provide a standardized student experience at a lower cost than a standardized patient, standardized patients were developed using an interactive video platform. The purpose of this article is to report pharmacy students' perceptions of the interactive video standardized patients used to practice applying clinical reasoning in a self-care therapeutics course.

Accuracy of Google Translate in translating the directions and counseling points for top-selling drugs from English to Arabic, Chinese, and Spanish.

Purpose: A study was conducted to evaluate the accuracy of Google Translate (Google LLC, Mountain View, CA) when used to translate directions for use and counseling points for the top 100 drugs used in the United States into Arabic, Chinese (simplified), and Spanish.

Methods: Directions for use and common counseling points for the top 100 drugs were identified by 2 clinicians. This information was translated from English to Arabic, Chinese (simplified), and Spanish using Google Translate.