Publications by authors named "Niambi Horton"
Objective: To restructure a required pharmaceutical care and communications course to place greater emphasis on communication skills and include a high-stakes assessment.
Design: A standardized counseling rubric was developed for use throughout the pharmacy curriculum and the counseling laboratory practicals were changed to high-stakes assessments.
Assessment: An annual mid-semester and end-of-semester high-stakes patient-counseling objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) conducted prior to and after revision of the course and counseling rubric documented improvements in students' scores.
Objective: To evaluate whether student participation in ambulatory clinics influenced the percentage of therapeutic international normalized ratio (INR) results among patients on chronic warfarin therapy.
Methods: Medical records in outpatient anticoagulation clinics managed by pharmacists under physician protocol were reviewed retrospectively in 2 university-affiliated clinics in Amarillo and Lubbock, TX. Pharmacy student activities included patient interviews, vital sign measurements, fingersticks, counseling, and documentation.
Background: This study evaluates the quality of care of a pharmacist-managed diabetes clinic focused on an indigent population and compares that quality of care to usual care in the same health care setting.
Methods: Two groups of subjects were evaluated by retrospective review of medical records. The experimental group (n = 47) consisted of patients whose care was facilitated by a clinical pharmacist (medication initiation and modification, laboratory and physical assessment) in addition to routine physician care.