Identifying key roles of the pharmacy technician in primary care settings.

Purpose: As the pharmacist's role expands, particularly in primary care practice settings, there is an opportunity for expansion of pharmacy technician duties to aid in administrative and clinical tasks that do not require the pharmacist's professional judgment. Identifying, defining, and expanding the roles of pharmacy technicians has been deemed a key part of the pharmacy practice model. These roles have been shown to enhance pharmacist efficiency and patient outreach; however, examples of the various innovative activities performed by technicians in the primary care setting are lacking in the literature.

Identification of critical factors for forming collaborative relationships between physicians and pharmacists.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify and describe strategies that have successfully achieved collaboration among physicians and pharmacists providing comprehensive medication management (CMM) to support development of CMM services.

Methods: A 2-phase, mixed-methods approach was employed to identify successful strategies for building pharmacist-physician relationships in primary care clinic settings. Phase I used a qualitative approach to identify strategies deemed successful in building relationships with physicians.

Clinical and Economic Impact of an Integrated Care Team Model on Targeted, High-Risk Medicare Patients With Type 2 Diabetes.

"Quality Improvement Success Stories" are published by the American Diabetes Association in collaboration with the American College of Physicians, Inc., and the National Diabetes Education Program. This series is intended to highlight best practices and strategies from programs and clinics that have successfully improved the quality of care for people with diabetes or related conditions.

Charge Transfer Excitons at van der Waals Interfaces.

The van der Waals interfaces of molecular donor/acceptor or graphene-like two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are central to concepts and emerging technologies of light-electricity interconversion. Examples include, among others, solar cells, photodetectors, and light emitting diodes. A salient feature in both types of van der Waals interfaces is the poorly screened Coulomb potential that can give rise to bound electron-hole pairs across the interface, i.

Hot electron injection from graphene quantum dots to TiO₂.

The Shockley-Queisser limit is the maximum power conversion efficiency of a conventional solar cell based on a single semiconductor junction. One approach to exceed this limit is to harvest hot electrons/holes that have achieved quasi-equilibrium in the light absorbing material with electronic temperatures higher than the phonon temperature. We argue that graphene based materials are viable candidates for hot carrier chromophores.

Rare-earth cation effects on three-dimensional metal-organic rotaxane framework (MORF) self assembly.

A set of metal-organic rotaxane frameworks (MORFs) are constructed with the use of a tetraimidazolium macrocycle, the terephthalate dianion, and the trivalent lanthanide metal cations Nd(III), Sm(III), Eu(III) or Tb(III) and are reported herein. The specific choice of the metal cation allows for control of the structure and luminescent properties of the resulting molecular frameworks.

Reversible surface electronic traps in PbS quantum dot solids induced by an order-disorder phase transition in capping molecules.

The electronic properties of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are critically dependent on the nature of the ligand molecules on their surfaces. Here we show the reversible formation of surface electronic trap states in the model system of solid thin films of PbS QDs capped with thiol molecules. As the temperature was increased from cryogenic to room temperature, we discovered a phase transition in the fluorescence spectra from excitonic emission to trap emission.

Multi component self-assembly: supramolecular organic frameworks containing metal-rotaxane subunits (RSOFs).

A facile, one-pot synthesis of rotaxanated supramolecular organic frameworks (RSOFs) is reported. These systems consist of bis-carboxylate anions threaded through the core of tetraimidazolium macrocycles. Trivalent metal cations, yttrium(III) and smaller lanthanides, are used to "lock" the threaded strut in place.

Effective enrichment and mass spectrometry analysis of phosphopeptides using mesoporous metal oxide nanomaterials.

Mass spectrometry (MS)-based phosphoproteomics remains challenging due to the low abundance of phosphoproteins and substoichiometric phosphorylation. This demands better methods to effectively enrich phosphoproteins/peptides prior to MS analysis. We have previously communicated the first use of mesoporous zirconium dioxide (ZrO(2)) nanomaterials for effective phosphopeptide enrichment.

Mesoporous zirconium oxide nanomaterials effectively enrich phosphopeptides for mass spectrometry-based phosphoproteomics.

This work represents the first use of mesoporous zirconium oxide nanomaterials for highly effective and selective enrichment of phosphorylated peptides.