One click away: Pilot study of the perceived academic impact of screen time among pharmacy students.

Introduction: We examined the perceived impact (direct and indirect) of screen time on pharmacy students' academics and how pharmacy students attempt to overcome perceived negative impacts.

Methods: Focus group interviews with first-year and third-year pharmacy students at a single school of pharmacy were conducted, digitally audio-recorded, transcribed, and analyzed. Screen time was defined as time on any device with internet access, and academic impact was referred to as studying and academic performance.

Teaching interprofessional teamwork skills to health professional students: A scoping review.

An expanding body of literature is examining interprofessional teamwork and its effect in healthcare. To produce capable healthcare professionals prepared to participate in interprofessional roles, teamwork training must begin early in health professional students' training. The focus of this scoping review was to explore interprofessional education (IPE) studies designed to teach and/or assess interprofessional teamwork skills to students from two or more different health professions, to find and describe effective pedagogy and assessment strategies.

Optimizing the Benefits of Self-Monitoring Among Patients With Cancer.

Purpose/objectives: To investigate oncology professionals' perspectives about, experience with, and envisioned feasibility of incorporating patient self-monitoring as a patient-centered practice. 
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Research Approach: An interpretive, descriptive study.

Tracking and journaling the cancer journey.

Clinicians sometimes suggest to patients that they keep track of illness-related issues. Self-monitoring is a helpful term to describe these at-home activities that yield essential information for self-management. The purpose of this article is to create greater awareness of the opportunities (and potential shortcomings) of patient self-monitoring for oncology nursing practice.

"How I kept track of it of course was my business": cancer patient self-monitoring as self-stylized work.

Objectives: Self-monitoring behaviors of cancer patients benefit patients, caregivers, and providers, and yet the phenomenon of self-monitoring from the cancer-patient perspective has not been studied. We examined cancer patients' self-monitoring preferences and practices, focusing on the meaning of self-monitoring within the cancer experience.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted among adult cancer patients who had been seen at least once at a rural United States cancer center.

'Being a Part of Treatment': the meaning of self-monitoring for rural cancer patients.

Background: The diagnosis and treatment of cancer entail managing vast amounts of information in order for patients to participate effectively in disease self-management. Information management includes patients' responses to acquire, manage, and use external and internal information, such as through self-monitoring practices.

Objective: The study objective was to examine the meaning of self-monitoring practices within the context of rural patients' responses to internal and external information.

Pharmacy participation and claim characteristics in the Wisconsin Medicaid Pharmaceutical Care Program from 1996 to 2007.

Background: Under the 1995 Wisconsin Act 27, the biennial budget, Wisconsin Medicaid was required to develop an incentive-based pharmacy payment system for pharmaceutical care (PC) services. Started on July 1, 1996, the Wisconsin Medicaid Pharmaceutical Care Program (WMPCP) is the longest currently ongoing Medicaid program to compensate pharmacists for nondispensing services. The program reimburses pharmacies for providing PC services that increase patient compliance or prevent potential adverse drug problems by paying an enhanced PC dispensing fee.

Patient perspective of medication information desired and barriers to asking pharmacists questions.

Objectives: To identify information patients want from a community pharmacist with new and refill prescription dispensing, examine how this varies across certain patient characteristics, and identify perceived barriers to asking pharmacists' questions.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Six states (Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Utah, Montana, and Arizona), from January 2006 to August 2008.

Symptom-monitoring behaviors of rural cancer patients and survivors.

Goals Of Work: Symptom monitoring is described among rural cancer patients and survivors with comparison across study variables.

Materials And Methods: An anonymous survey was mailed to adult cancer patients and survivors. Sampling was via a cancer center serving a region of a US rural-frontier state.

Outcome and self-efficacy expectations for medication management of patients with diabetes: influence of the pharmacist-patient relationship.

Objective: To examine how outcome and self-efficacy expectations for medication management and self-monitoring of patients with diabetes vary by different indicators of a pharmacist-patient relationship.

Design: Cross-sectional descriptive study.

Setting: United States during late 2004.

Measurement of self-advocacy in cancer patients and survivors.

Background: The Patient Self-Advocacy Scale, originally developed for use in HIV/AIDS patients, was adapted for use in cancer patients and survivors. The scale contains three dimensions: increased illness education, increased assertiveness with a doctor, and potential for mindful non-adherence.

Discussion And Conclusion: Evidence for modest reliability and construct validity was found; however, ceiling effects exist for the Illness Education subscale, which supports the need to move beyond items regarding information seeking to perhaps include use and management of information.

Adverse effect monitoring: opportunity for patient care and pharmacy practice.

Objectives: To present an adverse effect monitoring tool with theoretical, practical, and data-supported explanation and justification for use in pharmacy practice for the purpose of building patient-pharmacist partnerships and improving medication-management outcomes.

Design: Randomized pretest-posttest experimental design.

Setting: Ambulatory patients in three multidisciplinary cancer clinics.