Scoring big: Aligning inpatient clinical pharmacy services through implementation of an electronic scoring system.

Purpose: Data are limited on utilizing a comprehensive scoring system in the electronic health record to help prioritize, align, and standardize clinical pharmacy services across multiple hospitals and practice models within a health system. The purpose of this article is to describe the development and implementation of an electronic scoring system to help inpatient pharmacists prioritize patient care activities and standardize clinical services across a diverse health system.

Summary: Inpatient pharmacists from all specialty areas across the health system partnered with health information technology pharmacists to develop a scoring system directly integrated into the electronic health record that would help triage patient care, identify opportunities for pharmacist intervention, and prioritize clinical pharmacy services.

Selenium Biofortification Enhanced Grain Yield and Alleviated the Risk of Arsenic and Cadmium Toxicity in Rice for Human Consumption.

Arsenic (As) and Cadmium (Cd) are toxic to rice plants. However, selenium (Se) has the potential to regulate As and Cd toxicity. The present study aimed to evaluate the co-exposure to As and Se species in two rice cultivars, BRS Pampa and EPAGRI 108.

Chromium Speciation by HPLC-DAD/ICP-MS: Simultaneous Hyphenation of Analytical Techniques for Studies of Biomolecules.

The first element legislated adopting chemical speciation was chromium (Cr) for differentiation between the highly toxic Cr(VI) from the micronutrient Cr(III). Therefore, this work aimed to develop a new analytical method through the coupling of High-Performance Liquid Chromatography with Diode-Array Detection (HPLC-DAD) with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) to obtain molecular and elemental information simultaneously from a single sample injection. In the first step, a low-cost flow split made of acrylic was developed aiming at optimally directing the sample to the detectors, enabling the HPLC-DAD/ICP-MS coupling.

PknG R242P Mutation Results in Structural Changes with Enhanced Virulence in the Mouse Model of Infection.

is the causative agent of tuberculosis in domestic and wild animal species and sometimes in humans, presenting variable degrees of pathogenicity. It is known that PknG is involved in the first steps of macrophage infection and immune evasion. We questioned whether genes were conserved among mycobacteria and if natural genetic modifications would affect its virulence.