Publications by authors named "Terrence R Jackson"
Background: Many patients who have diabetes lack adequate knowledge, positive attitudes, and sufficient resources to achieve optimal outcomes in the management of their disease. A key to assessing the impact of pharmacists' interactions with diabetes patients is the resultant impact on patient knowledge, attitudes, and satisfaction. As such, it is important that quality instruments be used to obtain accurate and dependable measures of these outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluate the effectiveness of holding weekly 60-90 minute conversation forums for faculty members to discuss, explore, and reflect on various teaching topics in a relaxed, informal, interactive format.
Methods: Weekly, 60-90 minute sessions were held for faculty members of the University of Illinois College of Pharmacy. A 15-item retrospective pretest-posttest questionnaire was developed and administered at the end of the first year of implementation to evaluate the participants' perceived knowledge, abilities, and confidence gains relative to becoming effective educators.
Background: The complexity of anticoagulation therapy requires a patient's command of anticoagulation-related knowledge to assist in maintaining optimal therapy and reducing adverse events. Verbal evaluations may overestimate the patient's comprehension of anticoagulation knowledge.
Objectives: This first phase study developed and pilot tested the Anticoagulation Knowledge Assessment (AKA) instrument, and provided validity evidence to support the use of the AKA.
Background: The direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription medications is proliferating in the United States. The relationship between patient exposure to DTCA and the response of clinicians is not well understood.
Methods: A randomized postal survey of Arizona primary care provider physicians (n = 1080) and physician assistants (n = 704) was conducted.