Frailty Among Older Individuals with and without COPD: A Cohort Study of Prevalence and Association with Adverse Outcomes.

Rationale: Frailty prevalence estimates among individuals with COPD have varied widely, and few studies have investigated relationships between frailty and adverse outcomes in a COPD population.

Objectives: Describe frailty prevalence among individuals with and without COPD and examine associations between frailty and mortality and other adverse outcomes in the next two years.

Methods: This was an observational cohort study using Health and Retirement Study data (2006-2018) of community living individuals ages 50-64 and ≥65 with and without COPD (non-COPD).

Awareness and perceptions of advanced practice pharmacists among health care providers in New Mexico.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate health care provider awareness and perceptions of the 2 types of advanced practice pharmacists (APPhs) in New Mexico: pharmacist clinicians (PhCs) and community pharmacists with independent prescriptive authority (iRPhs).

Methods: A cross-sectional electronic survey was administered to health care providers in New Mexico to describe awareness and perceptions of APPhs and benefits and barriers to collaborative practice with APPhs.

Results: A total of 5905 providers received the emailed survey, and 634 (11%) completed the survey, with 68% of the respondents indicating that they were not aware of the 2 types of APPhs in New Mexico.

A case-based learning exercise to increase students' understanding of the pharmacist's role in public health interventions for individual patients.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether a public health (PH) micro-level case-based learning exercise increased pharmacy students' self-perceived understanding and confidence in their role as PH pharmacists.

Methods: Three PH micro-level case-based learning exercises in community pharmacy settings were developed and integrated into the third professional year PH course. Students enrolled in the PH course from January 2012 - May 2015 completed a pre- and post-activity survey consisting of 22 statements with Likert scale responses.

Impact of discharge medication bedside delivery service on hospital reutilization.

Purpose: To evaluate the impact of a medication to bedside delivery (meds-to-beds) service on hospital reutilization in an adult population.

Methods: A retrospective, single-center, observational cohort study was conducted within a regional academic medical center from January 2017 to July 2017. Adult patients discharged from an internal medicine unit with at least one maintenance medication were evaluated.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Therapy Use in a Diverse New Mexican Population.

Objective: To describe differences, attitudes, and experiences in use of complementary and alternative medicines and therapy (CAMT) in people living in New Mexico (NM).

Design: Cross-sectional survey study.

Setting: Clinics staffed by the University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy faculty between September 2009 and August 2011 in Albuquerque, NM.

Care transitions service: a pharmacy-driven program for medication reconciliation through the continuum of care.

Purpose: A quality-improvement program at University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) encompassing admission, discharge, and postdischarge medication reconciliation activities is described, with a report on initial assessments of the program's impact on rates of medication-related problems (MRPs).

Methods: Pharmacists conducted a five-month evaluation of the UNMH Care Transitions Service (CTS), which serves inpatients admitted to the hospital's family medicine service, providing medication reconciliation and targeted MRP interventions. Selected patients who received CTS services from November 2012 through March 2013 (n = 191) were included in the analysis.

Development and dissemination of a statewide system to minimize use of Potentially Inappropriate Medications (PIMs).

Background: Drug safety and adverse drug reactions in the community are of concern in the geriatric population. To help decrease the number of adverse drug reactions, the New Mexico Prescription Improvement Coalition created a consensus panel, the Potentially Inappropriate Medications (PIMs) Advisory Board.

Objective: To develop consensus guidelines that would promote decreasing the use of PIMs, as defined by the Beers' criteria, through the promotion of safer alternative therapies and strategies.

Agreement between self-report and prescription data in medical records for pregnant women.

BACKGROUND Clinical teratology studies often rely on patient reports of medication use in pregnancy with or without other sources of information. Electronic medical records (EMRs), administrative databases, pharmacy dispensing records, drug registries, and patients' self-reports are all widely used sources of information to assess potential teratogenic effect of medications. The objective of this study was to assess comparability of self-reported and prescription medication data in EMRs for the most common therapeutic classes.

Pharmacy students' knowledge, attitudes, and evaluation of direct-to-consumer advertising.

Objectives: To assess pharmacy students' knowledge, attitudes, and evaluation of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA).

Methods: A cross sectional, self-administered, 106-item survey instrument was used to assess first, second, and third professional year pharmacy students' knowledge about DTCA regulations, attitudes toward DTCA, and evaluation of DTC advertisements with different brief summary formats (professional labeling and patient labeling) and in different media sources (print and television).

Results: One hundred twenty (51.

Pharmacoeconomic analysis of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in type 2 diabetes: a Markov model.

Background: Prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events by initiating an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor on diagnosis of type 2 diabetes may increase survival and decrease costs.

Objective: To determine the incremental cost-effectiveness ratios of ACE inhibitor initiation in normoalbuminuric, microalbuminuric, and macroalbuminuric patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes.

Methods: A cohort of patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes was followed for 8 years in a Markov model.

Direct health care costs of 4 common skin ulcers in New Mexico Medicaid fee-for-service patients.

Objective: To determine health care costs associated with pressure ulcers, ulcers of the lower limbs, other chronic ulcers, and venous leg ulcers from the New Mexico Medicaid fee-for-service program perspective.

Design: Retrospective analysis of claims database

Main Outcome Measures: Physician visit, hospital, and prescription costs were determined for New Mexico Medicaid patients with a primary and/or secondary diagnosis of 1 of 4 identified categories of skin ulcers from January 1, 1994, through December 31, 1998. Costs were determined in terms of mean and median annual cost per patient and total costs per year.