A pharmacist visit improves diabetes standards in a patient-centered medical home (PCMH).

Many patients with diabetes do not receive recommended standards of care. Diabetes patients were seen by a pharmacist in a diabetes assessment service (DAS) 1 week prior to a physician appointment to complete diabetes standards. Completion rates of American Diabetes Association (ADA) standards were compared between patients of 5 physicians offered the DAS intervention and a concurrent cohort of randomly selected patients of nonparticipating physicians.

Effect of oral diuretics on chronic warfarin therapy: a retrospective study.

Background: Limited clinical documentation is suggestive of a drug interaction between warfarin and diuretics.

Objective: To evaluate the effect on international normalized ratio (INR) when a daily oral diuretic is started or increased in patients on chronic stable warfarin therapy.

Methods: The medical records of all active patients of two hospital-based anticoagulation clinics were retrospectively reviewed to identify patients who were started on or received a dose increase of a daily oral diuretic while on stable warfarin therapy.

Genetically determined Amerindian ancestry correlates with increased frequency of risk alleles for systemic lupus erythematosus.

Objective: To assess whether genetically determined Amerindian ancestry predicts increased presence of risk alleles of known susceptibility genes for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

Methods: Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within 16 confirmed genetic susceptibility loci for SLE were genotyped in a set of 804 Mestizo lupus patients and 667 Mestizo healthy controls. In addition, 347 admixture informative markers were genotyped.