Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Collaborative Management and Prescription of Diabetes Medications with Cardiovascular Benefit.

Involvement of Clinical Pharmacy Specialists (CPS) in the care of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) has been demonstrated to be beneficial. Whether this positive impact applies to increased use of cardiovascular risk-reducing medications is less well established. To determine the association of CPS co-management on the prescription of diabetes medications with proven cardiovascular benefits for patients with DM and established cardiovascular disease in the primary care setting.

Impact of a Pharmacy-Cardiology Collaborative Practice on Dofetilide Safety Monitoring.

Background: Limited studies have been published examining dofetilide's postmarketing use and its recommended monitoring.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of a collaborative pharmacy-cardiology antiarrhythmic drug (AAD) monitoring program on dofetilide monitoring.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study was performed to assess if a novel monitoring program improved compliance with dofetilide-specific monitoring parameters based on the Food and Drug Administration's Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy.

Ostwald's Rule of Stages and its role in CdSe quantum dot crystallization.

A century ago Ostwald described the "Rule of Stages" after deducing that crystal formation must occur through a series of intermediate crystallographic phases prior to formation of the final thermodynamically stable structure. Direct evidence of the Rule of Stages is lacking, and the theory has not been implemented to allow isolation of a selected structural phase. Here we report the role of Ostwald's Rule of Stages in the growth of CdSe quantum dots (QDs) from molecular precursors in the presence of hexadecylamine.