Backward Design to Combat Curricular Expansion in a Large, Interdisciplinary, Team-Taught Course.

Objective: Recently, there have been calls to action to address curricular expansion, including modifying standards, using curricular analytics, and optimizing interdisciplinary collaboration, all of which focus on program-level changes. The primary objective of this study was to describe how the process of backward design can be used as a strategy to reduce curricular expansion at the individual course level while maintaining student performance and decreasing student and coordinator stress.

Methods: Backward design was applied to a large, interdisciplinary, team-taught pharmacotherapy course to identify opportunities to reduce content volume and align assessment content with course objectives.

Pharmacists' facilitators and barriers to implementing and billing for patient care services: Interviews from the Ohio Medicaid Project.

Background: In the past several decades, a growing body of literature is recognizing the benefits of pharmacist-led health care services in improving clinical and economic outcomes. Despite this evidence, pharmacists are not recognized on a federal level as health care providers in the United States. Ohio Medicaid managed care plans began partnering with local pharmacies in 2020 to launch initial programs for implementing pharmacist-provided clinical services.

Patient perceptions of pharmacogenomic testing in the community pharmacy setting.

Background: In order to optimize community pharmacist roles and patient outcomes, a better understanding of patient perceptions of pharmacogenomic (PGx) testing may be helpful for successful integration into community pharmacy practice.

Objective: The objective of this study was to identify patient perceptions related to PGx testing in the community pharmacy setting.

Methods: Semi-structured, face-to-face interviews were conducted with adults ≥18 years of age to gather their perceptions of PGx testing.

The feasibility of an inter-professional transitions of care service in an older adult population.

Background: Older adults discharged from the Emergency Department (ED) are at high risk for medication interactions and side effects; examples of practice models addressing this transition of care are lacking.

Methods: This was a prospective cohort study for adults in one of two urban community EDs. Patients ≥50 years of age discharged with at least one new, non-schedule II prescription medication were included.

Improving Chronic Disease Outcomes Through Medication Therapy Management in Federally Qualified Health Centers.

Introduction: Appropriate management of chronic diseases, including proper use of medications, can lead to better disease control, decrease disease-related complications, and improve overall health. Pharmacists have been shown to positively affect chronic disease outcomes through medication therapy management (MTM). The primary objectives of this project are to increase the number of patients with (1) A1c in control and (2) blood pressure in control; secondary objectives are to (3) describe number and type of medication-related problems identified and resolved by pharmacists providing MTM in Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), (4) identify potential (pADEs) and actual adverse drug events (ADEs), and refer patients to diabetes self-management education classes, as needed.