Reprint of: A retrospective review of the impact of immunization eCare plans in community-based pharmacy setting.

Background: The Pharmacist Electronic Care (eCare) plan is an electronic documentation and billing platform that allows for exchanging and integrating pharmacy patient care information. eCare plans make it easier for pharmacists to track recommendations and referrals to both patients and providers and to bill for services.

Objectives: To determine the impact on the type and number of vaccines administered after the completion of immunization eCare plans and to examine sociodemographic differences in patients who received immunizations were documented in an eCare plan in a community-based pharmacy setting.

A retrospective review of the impact of immunization eCare plans in community-based pharmacy setting.

Background: The Pharmacist Electronic Care (eCare) plan is an electronic documentation and billing platform that allows for exchanging and integrating pharmacy patient care information. eCare plans make it easier for pharmacists to track recommendations and referrals to both patients and providers and to bill for services.

Objectives: To determine the impact on the type and number of vaccines administered after the completion of immunization eCare plans and to examine sociodemographic differences in patients who received immunizations were documented in an eCare plan in a community-based pharmacy setting.

Retention of students' knowledge of immunizations following a one-day or a five-week course.

Introduction: The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery Certificate Program is commonly used by schools of pharmacy to train student pharmacists in immunizations. This study compared student pharmacists' knowledge retention of immunization content when the live seminar of the APhA Program was delivered as a one-day co-curricular activity or as a five-week required course. The impact of immunization experience on students' knowledge retention was a secondary objective.

Evaluation of patient satisfaction and perceptions of a long-acting injectable antipsychotic medication administration service in a community-based pharmacy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, restrictions, and social distancing requirements for medical offices reduced scheduling availability and increased virtual televisits by providers. COVID-19 restrictions created a barrier to health care access for patients who are being administered long-acting injectable antipsychotics (LAIs) in an already vulnerable population.

Objective: To describe an LAI medication administration service at a community-based pharmacy during the COVID-19 pandemic, to evaluate patient satisfaction with the administration of LAIs by a pharmacist service in a community-based pharmacy during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to compare the patient's perceptions of receiving LAIs in a community-based pharmacy with those in another setting previously used for medication administration.

Community pharmacists in Virginia dispensing naloxone under a standing order: A qualitative study.

Background: In 2016, the Virginia Health Commissioner signed a standing order into law allowing licensed pharmacists to dispense opioid receptor antagonists (ORAs) for overdose reversal.

Objectives: Using the theory of planned behavior as an initial guide to study development, the aim of this qualitative study was to explore community pharmacists' attitudes, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, and behavioral intention toward dispensing ORAs under a standing order in Virginia.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with community pharmacists across the Commonwealth between June 2018 and October 2019.

Perceptions and predictors of intention to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

Background: The control of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may be dependent on widespread receipt of an effective vaccine. It is important to understand patient health-related behaviors and perceptions to guide public health vaccination strategies.

Objectives: To examine perceptions of COVID-19 and vaccination beliefs, and identify predictors of intention to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in the US.

Assessment of hemp oil-based cannabidiol use in a community-based pharmacy setting.

Background: The Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 legalized the commercial use of hemp-based products, including cannabidiol (CBD). However, the U.S.

Development and feasibility of a community pharmacy-driven 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring service.

Background: Although 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is recommended by practice guidelines, access to ABPM is poor in the United States. Other countries have increased ABPM access by making it available in community pharmacies. It is not known if a similar approach is feasible in the United States.

Community-Based Pharmacy Practice Innovation and the Role of the Community-Based Pharmacist Practitioner in the United States.

Community-based pharmacy practice is evolving from a focus on product preparation and dispensing to becoming a health care destination within the four walls of the traditional community-based pharmacy. Furthermore, community-based pharmacy practice is expanding beyond the four walls of the traditional community-based pharmacy to provide care to patients where they need it. Pharmacists involved in this transition are community-based pharmacist practitioners who are primarily involved in leading and advancing team-based patient care services in communities to improve the patient health.

Decision-maker and staff perceptions of the pharmacist's role in transitions of care programs.

Objectives: To identify perceptions of decision-makers and staff at a local hospital about the pharmacist's role in transitions of care (TOC) programs.

Setting: Independent community pharmacy located inside a local community hospital.

Practice Description: Pharmacy personnel offer a bedside delivery service to hospital patients and have professional relationships with administration.

Public attitudes and beliefs about Virginia community pharmacists dispensing and administering naloxone.

Objectives: To determine awareness concerning naloxone and perceived severity of opioid overdose, to identify attitudes and beliefs concerning naloxone, and to assess perceived benefits and barriers related to naloxone dispensed and administered by community pharmacists.

Methods: The project was conducted in 3 phases. Phase 1 consisted of survey development and pretesting to identify unclear questions.

Antidepressant Use and Incident Urinary Incontinence: A Literature Review.

Objective: To review available data examining antidepressant use and incident urinary incontinence (UI).

Data Sources: PubMed was used to conduct the literature search for this review. In the primary search, the term "antidepressive agents" was searched as a medical subject heading, a pharmacological action, and a keyword phrase.

Evaluating health outcomes following a pharmacist-provided comprehensive pretravel health clinic in a supermarket pharmacy.

Objectives: To evaluate health outcomes and acceptance of pharmacists' recommendations of travel health including prevalance of immunizations, sunburn, insect-borne diseases, traveler's diarrhea, and altitude sickness, and assess patient satisfaction with the pretravel health clinic.

Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study design.

Setting: Central Virginia, July 2011 to June 2012.

Homeless patients' use of urban emergency departments in the United States.

Data from the 2009-2010 National Hospital Ambulatory Care Survey-Emergency Department were used to compare homeless patients' utilization of the urban emergency department (ED) in the United States with nonhomeless patients and to examine the relationship between homelessness and demographics and ED utilization measures. The weighted sample size was 200 645 347. A total of 1 302 256 patients (0.

Concordance of Pharmacist Assessment of Medication Nonadherence With a Self-Report Medication Adherence Scale.

Objective: To evaluate the concordance of the Modified Morisky Scale (MMS) with a pharmacist assessment of medication adherence during a medication review.

Methods: This retrospective study examined the electronic medical records (EMRs) of patients ≥18 years who received a medication review by a pharmacist from October 2008 to September 2009 at a homeless behavioral health clinic. In addition to the 6-item MMS, adherence was assessed using the first 4 items of the MMS, which comprise the original Morisky Scale.

Medication adherence challenges among patients experiencing homelessness in a behavioral health clinic.

Background: Behavioral health medication nonadherence is associated with poor health outcomes and increased healthcare costs. Little is known about reasons for nonadherence with behavioral health medications among homeless people.

Objectives: To identify reasons for medication nonadherence including the sociodemographic, health-related factors, and behavioral health conditions associated with medication nonadherence among behavioral health patients served by a Health Care for the Homeless center (HCH) in Virginia.

Student pharmacists' perceptions and awareness of community pharmacy practice residency programs.

Objectives: To assess student exposure to types of pharmacy practice, evaluate awareness and perceptions of community pharmacy residencies, and identify areas of postgraduate training of interest to student pharmacists.

Design: Cross-sectional, descriptive, online survey study.

Setting: United States, January to April 2008.

The use of the health belief model to assess predictors of intent to receive the novel (2009) H1N1 influenza vaccine.

OBJECTIVES: 1) Assess participants' perceptions of severity, risk, and susceptibility to the novel H1N1 influenza virus and/or vaccine, vaccine benefits and barriers, and cues to action and 2) Identify predictors of participants' intention to receive the novel H1N1 vaccine. DESIGN: Cross-sectional, descriptive study SETTING: Local grocery store chain and university in the central Virginia area PARTICIPANTS: Convenience sample of adult college students and grocery store patrons INTERVENTION: Participants filled out an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire based upon the Health Belief Model. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Participants' predictors of intention to receive the novel H1N1 vaccine RESULTS: A total of 664 participants completed a questionnaire.

Implementation of a personal medication record program in an independent living facility.

Objective: To describe the process of implementing a "Vial of Life" [Lifesaving Information for Emergencies] program in an independent living facility.

Setting: An independent living facility in the Richmond, Virginia, area.

Practice Description: The average age of the residents is 79.

Development and Implementation of an Academic-Community Partnership to Enhance Care among Homeless Persons.

An academic-community partnership between a Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) clinic and a school of pharmacy was created in 2005 to provide medication education and identify medication related problems. The urban community based HCH clinic in the Richmond, VA area provides primary health care to the homeless, uninsured and underinsured. The center also offers eye care, dental care, mental health and psychiatric care, substance abuse services, case management, laundry and shower facilities, and mail services at no charge to those in need.

Integration of collaborative medication therapy management in a safety net patient-centered medical home.

Objective: To describe the integration of collaborative medication therapy management (CMTM) into a safety net patient-centered medical home (PCMH).

Setting: Federally qualified Health Care for the Homeless clinic in Richmond, VA, from October 2008 to June 2010.

Practice Description: A CMTM model was developed by pharmacists, physicians, nurse practitioners, and social workers and integrated with a PCMH.

Medication reconciliation: an important piece of the medication puzzle.

Medication errors continue to cause significant morbidity and mortality. This, in turn, costs the health care system millions of dollars each year in preventable costs. Medication reconciliation, an important piece of medication therapy management (MTM), is vital to reducing medication errors.