Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Gastric Volume Measurement in a Pediatric Patient-Look Beyond the Antrum: A Case Report.

Gastric ultrasound estimates stomach contents in perioperative patients. A 10-year-old boy with abdominal rhabdomyosarcoma, who received abdominal radiation, developed gastroparesis and was scheduled for endoscopic gastrointestinal pyloric dilation. Point-of-care gastric ultrasound revealed gastric antral cross-sectional area of 6.

Patient and pharmacist perspectives on opioid misuse screening and brief interventions in community pharmacies.

Background: Pharmacy-based screening and brief interventions (SBI) offer opportunities to identify opioid misuse and opioid safety risks and provide brief interventions that do not overly burden pharmacists. Currently, such interventions are being developed without patient input and in-depth contextual data and insufficient translation into practice. The purpose of this study is to qualitatively explore and compare patient and pharmacist perceptions and needs regarding a pharmacy-based opioid misuse SBI and to identify relevant SBI features and future implementation strategies.

Implementing a pharmacist-integrated collaborative model of medication treatment for opioid use disorder in primary care: study design and methodological considerations.

Background: Pharmacists remain an underutilized resource in the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD). Although studies have engaged pharmacists in dispensing medications for OUD (MOUD), few studies have evaluated collaborative care models in which pharmacists are an active, integrated part of a primary care team offering OUD care.

Methods: This study seeks to implement a pharmacist integrated MOUD clinical model (called PrIMO) and evaluate its feasibility, acceptability, and impact across four diverse primary care sites.

Clinical and Radiographic Evaluation of Calcium Phosphate-Poly(lactide-co-glycolide) Graft in Regeneration of Intrabony Defects: Randomized Control Trial.

Aim: This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of calcium phosphate-poly(lactide-co-glycolide) composite graft in the regeneration of intrabony defects in chronic periodontitis patients over a period of 12 months.

Materials And Methods: A total of 11 systemically healthy chronic periodontitis patients with 22 graftable sites were treated with calcium phosphate cement (CPC) bone graft (control group) and CPC-poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)(PLGA) composite (test group) after flap reflection and debridement. Clinical parameters such as probing pocket depth (PPD) and clinical attachment level (CAL) were recorded at baseline and 3, 6, 9, and 12 months.

An Implementation-Focused Qualitative Exploration of Pharmacist Needs Regarding an Opioid Use Disorder Screening and Brief Intervention.

Background: Screening and brief interventions (SBI) can help identify opioid safety risks and healthcare professionals can accordingly intervene without a significant increase in workload. Pharmacists, one of the most accessible healthcare professionals, are uniquely positioned to offer SBI. To design an effective intervention with high potential for implementation, we explored pharmacist needs and barriers regarding SBI for opioid use disorders.

A scoping literature review of pharmacy-based opioid misuse screening and brief interventions.

Background: Although prescription opioid dispensing rates have continued to decrease, overdose deaths involving prescription opioids have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Screening and brief interventions (SBI) are an effective prevention strategy to identify and address opioid misuse and safety risks. Emerging literature on pharmacy-based SBI needs to be systematically appraised to develop robust interventions.

Using the integrated theory of health behavior change to assess factors affecting diabetes medication adherence among black adults during COVID-19: an explanatory sequential mixed methods design.

Objectives: (1) Evaluate changes in medication adherence and the role of psychosocial and interpersonal factors on adherence. (2) Explain the changes in medication adherence based on patient perceptions of adherence behaviors.

Design: We used an explanatory sequential mixed methods design for surveys at baseline and 1-year follow-up, followed by interviews.

Local delivery of hyaluronic acid as an adjunct to scaling and root planing in the treatment of chronic periodontitis in smokers and non-smokers: A clinical and microbiological study.

Objective: The objective of the study is to assess the effects of adjunctive use of hyaluronic acid (HA), clinically and microbiologically in smokers and nonsmokers, in the management of chronic periodontitis.

Material And Methods: 48 sites from 24 chronic periodontitis patients, including smokers and nonsmokers with probing depth >5 mm, were selected for the study. A split-mouth design was followed.

Erratum to "Perceptions of psychosocial and interpersonal factors affecting self-management behaviors among African Americans with diabetes" [Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy 3C (2021) 100057].

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Perceptions of psychosocial and interpersonal factors affecting self-management behaviors among African Americans with diabetes.

Background: African Americans are more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes and have diabetes complications as compared to non-Hispanic Whites, but have lesser medication adherence and poorer self-management behaviors. Interventions to improve self-management behaviors may not be successful if psychosocial and interpersonal factors of African Americans are not addressed.

Objective: The study objective was to qualitatively explore perceptions of African Americans with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) regarding self-management behaviors and understand the effect of psychosocial and interpersonal factors on behavior change.

Psychometric evaluation of a culturally adapted illness perception questionnaire for African Americans with type 2 diabetes.

Background: Diabetes is burdensome to African Americans, who are twice as likely to be diagnosed, more likely to develop complications and are at a greater risk for death and disability than non-Hispanic whites. Medication adherence interventions are sometimes ineffective for African Americans because their unique illness perceptions are not adequately addressed. The Illness Perception Questionnaire-Revised (IPQ-R) that assesses illness perceptions has shown reliability and validity problems when used with African Americans.

Wait No Longer: Reducing Medication Wait-Times for Individuals with Co-Occurring Disorders.

Community addiction treatment agencies have utilized Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx), a proven implementation strategy, to reduce appointment wait-times. However, its effectiveness at reducing medication access wait-times has not been explored. Thus, we conducted an exploratory analysis to evaluate the impact of the NIATx implementation strategies on reduced wait-times to addiction, psychotropic or both medications for individuals with co-occurring disorders (COD).

Towards a more patient-centered clinical trial process: A systematic review of interventions incorporating health literacy best practices.

Background: A 2019 public workshop convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) Roundtable on Health Literacy identified a need to develop evidence-based guidance for best practices for health literacy and patient activation in clinical trials.

Purpose: To identify studies of health literacy interventions within medical care or clinical trial settings that were associated with improved measures of health literacy or patient activation, to help inform best practices in the clinical trial process.

Data Sources: Literature searches were conducted in PubMed, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, SCOPUS, Cochrane, and Web of Science from January 2009 to June 2021.

An Explorative Study of Common Themes of Patient Experiences With Migraine.

To explore important themes in patient experiences with migraine and to understand the relationship of these themes with external factors such as the health care system and societal influences. This qualitative study was part of a larger online survey (conducted for a period of 2 months from March 1, 2013, to April 30, 2013) that recruited participants with migraine through nonprobability-based sampling techniques. Respondents were asked an open-ended question to describe their experience with migraine.

Improving Medication Access within Integrated Treatment for Individuals with Co-Occurring Disorders in Substance Use Treatment Agencies.

Background: The best approach to provide comprehensive care for individuals with co-occurring disorders (CODs) related to substance use and mental health is to address both disorders through an integrated treatment approach. However, only 25% of behavioral health agencies offer integrated care and less than 7% of individuals who need integrated treatment receive it. A project used a cluster-randomized waitlist control group design to evaluate the effectiveness of Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx) implementation strategies to improve access to addiction and psychotropic medications.

Using an exploratory sequential mixed methods design to adapt an Illness Perception Questionnaire for African Americans with diabetes: the mixed data integration process.

Background: Although qualitative methods have been used to develop quantitative behavioral health measurements, studies rarely report on the exact development process of these questionnaires. In this methodological paper, we highlight the procedure of a mixed data integration process in using qualitative data to create quantitative questionnaire items.

Methods: We used an exploratory sequential mixed methods study design to culturally adapt the Illness Perception Questionnaire-Revised (IPQ-R) and address the sociocultural contexts of African Americans with type 2 diabetes.

Pharmacist Views Regarding the Prescription Opioid Epidemic.

Community pharmacists have significant opportunity to contribute to prevention and treatment of opioid use disorders, but barriers to implementation still exist. Understanding their viewpoints is critical to designing future interventions. To qualitatively explore experiences and beliefs of community pharmacists regarding the misuse of prescription opioids in the United States.

Clinicoradiographic evaluation of hyaluronan-nano hydroxyapatite composite graft in the management of periodontal infrabony defects.

Background: Hyaluronan is a naturally occurring polysaccharide in the extracellular matrix of the connective tissue. It imparts antibacterial and osteogenic properties to the nano hydroxyapatite bone graft (NHA).

Aim: This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of hyaluronan-NHA (H-NHA) composite in the treatment of infrabony defects in chronic periodontitis patients.

Best practices for conducting and writing mixed methods research in social pharmacy.

Mixed method approaches are increasingly being used in social pharmacy research due to its potential to uncover insights that are not possible with separate quantitative and qualitative studies. Despite their increasing use, there are some limitations in these publications. Typically, specific mixed method designs are not chosen, quantitative and qualitative data are not systematically integrated, and the credibility or validity of the approach is not addressed.

Medication Adherence Changes in Blacks with Diabetes: A Mixed Methods Study.

In this study, we conducted a longitudinal evaluation of changes in medication adherence and the role of psychosocial and interpersonal factors in these changes among Blacks with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and determined barriers and facilitators of T2DM medication adherence. We used an explanatory sequential mixed methods design for a sample of 287 black adult patients with T2DM in Wisconsin. Two surveys quantitatively evaluated changes in medication adherence, psychosocial factors, and interpersonal factors over time.

Hemisection: A Treatment Option for an Endodontically treated Molar with Vertical Root Fracture.

Vertical root fractures (VRF) in endodontically treated teeth have long been reported and pose diagnostic difficulties. A hemisection/root resection procedures removes the fractured fragments completely, and retains a portion of the compromized tooth offers a predictable treatment option. The key to this rests in ideal case selection involving balancing all indications and contraindications.