Pharmacy support in developing prescribing skills.

Background: Prescribing medicines is one of the most common interventions in health care, so even a small percentage of prescribing errors can affect many patients. Many of these errors are prevented by the intervention of pharmacists. Research has identified gaps in medical education and training that contribute to these errors.

Development of a functional assessment measure for manual wheelchair users.

This investigation developed the Wheelchair Users Functional Assessment (WUFA). Because no functional outcome tools exist that include many of the daily activities that are needed to be independent by individuals using manual wheelchairs, development of an appropriate tool was deemed important. Although the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) can be used to assess disability in those using a wheelchair, it only measures some aspects of basic activities of daily living (ADLs) and does not measure community independence.