Updates to a pharmacy-technician driven centralized medication refill service in a large community health system.

In 2020, we published a description of the newly implemented centralized refill service (CRS) led by pharmacy technicians in our large community health system. Since that time, the CRS has been refined, updated, and expanded. We have also received many inquiries with common questions about the process from those who seek to implement a similar process.

Perceptions of the provision of drug information, pharmaceutical detailing and engagement with non-personal promotion at a large physicians network: a mixed-methods study.

Objective: Non-personal promotion (NPP) such as digital, print-based marketing, direct promotional visits and free drug samples are means of pharmaceutical marketing. This study described practices of drug information, pharmaceutical detailing and engagement with NPP at an integrated network of providers.

Design: This was a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study.

Implementation of a protocol-driven pharmacy technician refill process at a large physician network.

Objectives: To describe the implementation of a centrally located certified pharmacy technician (CPhT) team to streamline the process of approving medication refills for chronic disease state management within a multisite physician network.

Setting: Primary care (PC) offices within a large physician network.

Practice Description: Incoming medication refill requests from patients and community pharmacies were typically received at each PC office and processed by medical assistants, nurses, or providers.

Prothrombin Time, Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time, and Fibrinogen Reference Intervals for Inbred Strain 13/N Guinea Pigs () and Validation of Low Volume Sample Analysis.

Inbred strain 13/N guinea pigs are used as small animal models for the study of hemorrhagic fever viruses. Coagulation abnormalities, including prolonged clotting times and bleeding, are characteristic of hemorrhagic fever in humans; patients often meet criteria for disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). Comprehensively evaluating coagulation function is critical in model development and studies of viral pathogenesis and therapeutic efficacy.