ACCP Template for Evaluating a Clinical Pharmacist.

ACCP is committed to ensuring that clinical pharmacists possess the competencies necessary to deliver comprehensive medication management in team-based, direct patient care environments. These competencies are divided into six essential domains: direct patient care, pharmacotherapy knowledge, systems-based care and population health, communication, professionalism, and continuing professional development. The 2016 ACCP Clinical Practice Affairs Committee has developed an evaluation tool that includes the assessable tasks of today's clinical pharmacists that fall within each domain.

Key articles and guidelines in the management of hypertension: 2008 update.

Hypertension remains a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The optimal choice of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatment regimens is based on a plethora of published literature. This compilation is the initial update to the Key Articles and Guidelines in the Management of Hypertension authored by members of the Cardiology Practice and Research Network of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, which appeared in Pharmacotherapy in 2004.

Ranolazine, a novel agent for chronic stable angina.

One of the first signs of ischemic heart disease may manifest as chronic stable angina, a mismatch between oxygen supply and demand. With more than approximately 16.5 million people each year having stable angina, development of new therapies to help control this disease state are warranted.