Impact of a health and wellness IPPE focused on immunizations and health assessments.

Background And Purpose: Health and wellness principles are included in pharmacy education outcomes and standards, supporting the importance of integrating these concepts within pharmacy curricula. The objective of this study was to describe the development, implementation, and assessment of an intensive community pharmacy-based health and wellness introductory pharmacy practice experience (IPPE) focused on immunizations and health assessments.

Educational Activity And Setting: The health and wellness IPPE was a required, one-week rotation developed to provide second-year student pharmacists with direct patient care opportunities to reinforce knowledge, skills, and abilities related to health and wellness principles.

Clinical impact of a community pharmacy-based health and wellness introductory pharmacy practice experience.

Objective: To assess the clinical impact of an intensive community pharmacy-based Health and Wellness Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) completed by second-year (P2) student pharmacists.

Design: The Health and Wellness IPPE was a 1-week rotation developed to provide P2 student pharmacists with opportunities to provide clinical services to patients within the community pharmacy setting. Student pharmacists administered immunizations, performed blood pressure screenings and blood glucose measurements, and provided education to patients under the guidance of licensed pharmacist preceptors.

Dual antiplatelet Tx for stroke prevention: Worth the risk?

Here's what the evidence tells us about the use of 2 regimens-clopidogrel + aspirin and ER dipyridamole + aspirin-to prevent secondary ischemic stroke.

Up for Debate: Re-Envisioning the Journal Club with an Article-Centric Student Debate.

Unlabelled: Effective utilization of evidence-based medicine requires skillful development of a critical literature evaluation process. Although traditional journal club activities are a common modality to teach and refine these skills, they may limit a learner's motivation to perform a well-rounded critique of primary literature.

Innovation: In response to the challenges with these traditional formats, we describe a novel approach to refining critical literature evaluation skills in an Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) setting utilizing a focused, article-centric journal club debate.

A Pilot Study to Assess Patient Adherence to New Chronic Medications Following the Use of a Novel Adherence Tool and Individualized Counseling.

Medication nonadherence leads to an increase in morbidity and mortality. In the United States, it results in an annual estimated cost of $290 billion in patients with chronic diseases. Several adherence screening tools are available for use, but none have been adopted for widespread use.

Perceptions of the incorporation of health literacy in pharmacy training programs.

Objectives: To assess pharmacy residents' perceptions regarding the incorporation of health literacy in pharmacy school and pharmacy residency training and to assess confidence while interacting with patients of limited health literacy.

Design: Prospective cross-sectional study.

Setting: United States from March to May 2012.

Clinical utility of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease knowledge questionnaire.

Background And Objectives: Although typically symptomatic, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is undertreated as compared to many asymptomatic conditions such as hypertension. Unfortunately, many patients lack basic information about their major disease states, including COPD. The purpose of this study was to assess the clinical utility of the valid and reliable COPD Questionnaire (COPD-Q) in a sample of underserved patients carrying a diagnosis of COPD.

Indacaterol: a novel long-acting β(2) -agonist.

Bronchodilator drugs are the foundation for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The principal inhaled bronchodilator treatments used are β(2) -agonists and anticholinergics, either alone or in combination. Currently available β(2) -agonists are of either short duration and used multiple times/day, or of long duration, which requires twice-daily administration.

Analysis of the patellofemoral region on MRI: association of abnormal trochlear morphology with severe cartilage defects.

Objective: The objective of our study was to assess patellofemoral measurements on MRI and to correlate the measurements with different grades of cartilage defect.

Materials And Methods: Axial and sagittal MR images of 100 patients with various pathologic knee conditions were analyzed. The patients were divided into two age groups: < 40 years and > or = 40 years.

Patella alta: lack of correlation between patellotrochlear cartilage congruence and commonly used patellar height ratios.

Objective: The purposes of this study were to assess the degree of patellotrochlear chondral overlap (patellotrochlear index), correlate it with the Insall-Salvati and modified Insall-Salvati indexes, and determine the association between these measurements and patellofemoral chondral defects.

Materials And Methods: Sagittal 1.5-T and 3-T MR images of 100 consecutively registered patients with symptoms were analyzed, and the Insall-Salvati index, modified Insall-Salvati index, patellotrochlear index, and patellophyseal index (ratio of the height of patella above the physeal line to the length of the patellar articular cartilage) were calculated.

Internal carotid artery dissection following wooden arrow injury to the posterior pharynx. Case report.

In this report the authors describe a case of internal carotid artery (ICA) dissection following a blunt posterior pharynx injury and review current literature on the identification and treatment of such disorders. An ICA dissection developed in a 6-year-old boy who had suffered blunt injury to the posterior pharynx and who was followed up via computed tomography (CT) angiography and clinic visits for 6 months. The ICA dissection healed with pseudoaneurysm development and was treated with anticoagulation therapy.