Factors influencing professional state association membership decisions among recent pharmacy graduates.

Introduction: State pharmacy association membership levels have remained stagnant in recent years despite active student organization involvement among student pharmacists and an increased number of pharmacy schools producing new pharmacy graduates in the United States. The objective of this project was to examine factors considered by recent pharmacy graduates when deciding to join state pharmacy associations.

Methods: A 16-item cross sectional survey of recent pharmacy graduates collected respondents' demographic profile, professional student organization involvement, association memberships, and membership decision factors.

Evaluation of a Pharmacist-Managed Heart Failure Education Project: Empowering Patients to Self-Manage Their Disease.

Recent reimbursement cuts for hospitals with higher 30-day heart failure (HF)-related readmission rates call for means of reducing those readmissions. To determine if pharmacist-initiated education increases HF knowledge and assess if an increase in HF knowledge decreases HF readmission. This was a prospective interventional study.

Pharmacokinetics of vancomycin in extremely obese patients with suspected or confirmed Staphylococcus aureus infections.

Study Objective: To estimate vancomycin pharmacokinetic parameters and dosing requirements in a cohort of extremely obese patients.

Design: Prospective pharmacokinetic study.

Setting: Acute care community teaching hospital.