Sentiment analysis in medication adherence: using ruled-based and artificial intelligence-driven algorithms to understand patient medication experiences.

Background: Studies are exploring ways to improve medication adherence, with sentiment analysis (SA) being an underutilized innovation in pharmacy. This technique uses artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing to assess text for underlying feelings and emotions.

Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the use of two SA models, Valence Aware Dictionary for Sentiment Reasoning (VADER) and Emotion English DistilRoBERTa-base (DistilRoBERTa), for the identification of patients' sentiments and emotions towards their pharmacotherapy.

Locomotion and morphological adaptations in the glass lizard Ophiodes cf. fragilis (Raddi, 1820) (Squamata: Anguidae).

There are few studies related to the biological and ecological aspects of the glass snake, a limbless lizard and with a wide geographic distribution. The aim of this study was to analyze the locomotion mode of specimens of Ophiodes cf. fragilis in different substrates and to investigate the morphological adaptations associated with this type of behavior.

Preparing Pharmacists for the Digital Age: How Pharmacy Courses are Adapting to Challenges and Opportunities.

Objective: As the digitalization of health accelerates, the fusion of pharmacy and informatics becomes crucial. Pharmacy education must adapt to equip professionals for this evolving landscape. This study aims to compare pharmacy curricula in Brazil and the United States of America, focusing on health informatics, to uncover challenges and opportunities in training pharmacists for the digital era.

Comparing medication adherence tools scores and number of controlled diseases among low literacy patients discharged from a Brazilian cardiology ward.

Background Adherence to prescribed drug therapy is associated with lower rates of cardiovascular causes of death. In view of the relevance for public health, it is important to understand the relation between medication adherence tools' scores, especially in low literacy patients discharged from a cardiology ward. Objectives We aimed to assess: (a) the association between number of controlled clinical conditions and adherence tools scores, and (b) the correlation between the scores of three instruments to assess adherence.

Efficacy and safety of biologic therapies for systemic lupus erythematosus treatment: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of biologic drugs compared with placebo for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) treatment.

Methods: A systematic review evaluating the efficacy and safety of biologic therapies compared with placebo in adult SLE patients treatment was performed. Data from studies performed before September 2013 were collected from several databases (MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, SCIELO, Scopus, and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts).

A tool to characterize the components of pharmacist interventions in clinical pharmacy services: the DEPICT project.

Background: The complexity of clinical pharmacy services usually leads to an inconsistent or even poor description of their interventions in scientific reports. To ensure comparability and reproducibility of the evidence, an in-depth description of pharmacist interventions is required.

Objective: To validate a new tool called DEPICT (Descriptive Elements of Pharmacist Intervention Characterization Tool) to characterize clinical pharmacy services.