Pharmacist documentation of gaps in care identified during diabetes coaching.

Objectives: 1) To identify the number of gaps, type of gaps, and contributing factors to gaps in diabetes care reported by pharmacists in the Diabetes Gaps in Care Portal (Gaps Portal). 2) To understand how pharmacists used the Gaps Portal and the implications for quality diabetes care.

Design: The Alliance for Patient Medication Safety developed an online Gaps Portal as a tool for pharmacists to identify and document gaps in care when managing patients with diabetes.

Infectious complications in patients receiving mobilization chemotherapy for autologous peripheral blood stem cell collection.

The purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate infectious complications in patients receiving mobilization chemotherapy for stem cell collection prior to autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation. An additional goal was to evaluate risk factors associated with the development of infectious complications. At the Medical College of Georgia BMT center, 54 patients were administered mobilization chemotherapy for the purpose of collecting stem cells between June, 1997, and May, 2002.