Assessing Ohio grocery store patrons' perceptions of a comprehensive medication review.

Objective: To assess grocery store patrons' perceptions of a comprehensive medication review (CMR) compared with traditional prescription medication counseling.

Design: Self-administered survey.

Setting: Eight central Ohio grocery stores during January through April 2007.

Application of an allele-specific PCR to clinical HIV genotyping samples detects additional K103N mutations in both therapy naïve and experienced patients.

Low-level drug resistance is not detected by routine consensus sequence genotype analysis (CSA) but low levels of specific mutations, such as the non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI)-resistant mutation K103N, can be quantitated by allele-specific PCR (ASP). This study has applied an ASP to quantitate low-level K103N in patients presenting for clinical HIV genotyping and assess the correlation with antiretroviral treatment history and outcomes. HIV RNA was extracted from patient plasma and subjected to PCR amplification of the reverse transcriptase (RT) region followed by genotyping by CSA and real-time ASP for K103N.

Designing pharmacy services based on grocery store patron preferences.

Objective: To assess preferences of grocery store patrons concerning pharmacy services and identify study participant characteristics that may predict the success of pharmacy services in the community setting.

Design: Self-administered survey.

Setting: Central Ohio from December 16, 2005, to January 12, 2006.

Documentation of patient care services in a community pharmacy setting.

Objective: To assess the types of patient care documentation systems currently being used by community pharmacists and determine the preferred characteristics of an ideal patient care documentation system.

Design: Mailed survey.

Setting: United States.