Clinical documentation for patient care: models, concepts, and liability considerations for pharmacists.

Purpose: A guide to the appropriate documentation of the critical aspects of the patient medical record to ensure reimbursement and the reduction of medical liability is presented.

Summary: Several documentation styles can be adopted to record pharmacist interventions, including unstructured notes, semistructured notes, and systematic notes. Documentation should be clear, concise, legible, nonjudgmental, patient focused, and standardized, and it should ensure patient confidentiality.

Status and recommendations for self-care instruction in US colleges and schools of pharmacy, 2006.

Teachers of pharmacy self-care courses have met annually since 1998 at the Nonprescription Medicines Academy (NMA) held in Cincinnati, Ohio. During these meetings, self-care faculty members discuss methods of enhancing the teaching of self-care in US colleges and schools of pharmacy. Self-care courses are taught using a variety of methods and content is woven into pharmacy curricula in many different ways.

Oral varenicline for smoking cessation.

Objective: To review the pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, efficacy, and safety of varenicline and provide a review of relevant clinical data.

Data Sources: A MEDLINE search (2001-December 2006) was conducted using the key words varenicline and nicotine replacement therapy for clinical trials limited to human subjects and published in English.

Study Selection And Data Extraction: All available human trials of varenicline were selected for review.