64 results match your criteria: "Belmont University College of Pharmacy[Affiliation]"

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Community pharmacists are often the most accessible member of the healthcare team to many patients and can play a key role in managing their chronic conditions, such as diabetes or heart disease, through enhanced pharmacy services. Despite their accessibility, pharmacy services are often underutilized due, in part, to a lack of adequate reimbursement models that comprehensively encapsulate all elements of those pharmacy services. While routine documentation of services does collect certain qualitative data, they do not always indicate the nuance of the full scope of services with resulting robust impact and value of those services for the patient and healthcare system.

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Disclaimer: In an effort to expedite the publication of articles, AJHP is posting manuscripts online as soon as possible after acceptance. Accepted manuscripts have been peer-reviewed and copyedited, but are posted online before technical formatting and author proofing. These manuscripts are not the final version of record and will be replaced with the final article (formatted per AJHP style and proofed by the authors) at a later time.

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Introduction: While pharmacy programs, standards, and students have changed over time, caring for our students continues to be of the utmost importance. We are interested in learning how colleges and schools of pharmacy are meeting these needs. Therefore, our objective was to characterize the roles and responsibilities of student affairs professionals associated with colleges/schools of pharmacy.

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Adverse childhood experiences among doctor of pharmacy students.

Curr Pharm Teach Learn

May 2024

Belmont University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 1900 Belmont Blvd, Nashville, TN 37212, United States of America; Department of Integrated Medical Education, Belmont University Thomas F. Frist, Jr. College of Medicine, 1900 Belmont Blvd, Nashville, TN 37212, United States of America. Electronic address:

Objective: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have demonstrated negative impact on physical, emotional, and cognitive health outcomes. This study aimed to assess prevalence of ACEs among Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) students, and their associations with mental health, substance use, academic performance, and sleep patterns.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted on PharmD students at a private University.

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Introduction: Patient misunderstanding of instructions on medication labels is a common cause of medication errors and can result in ineffective treatment. One way to better improve patient comprehension of medication labels is by optimizing the content and display of the information.

Objectives: To review comparative studies that have evaluated the design of a medication label to improve patient knowledge or safety.

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Introduction: The legalization of cannabidiol (CBD) across the United States, in varying degrees, has made CBD easily accessible to consumers for complementary and medical purposes. However, there is a paucity of scientific evidence on the benefits and risks of commercially available CBD. In the literature, 2 studies have gathered consumer perceptions and attitudes on cannabis products, specifically CBD, using survey-based questionnaires.

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Tertiary drug information sources for treatment and prevention of COVID-19.

J Med Libr Assoc

October 2023

Director of the Drug Information Center and Associate Professor, Belmont University College of Pharmacy, Nashville, TN.

Objective: To evaluate tertiary drug information databases in terms of scope, consistency of content, and completeness of COVID-19 drug information.

Methods: Five electronic drug information databases: Clinical Pharmacology, Lexi-Drugs, AHFS DI (American Hospital Formulary Service Drug Information), eFacts and Comparisons, and Micromedex In-Depth Answers, were evaluated in this cross-sectional evaluation study, with data gathered from October 2021 through February 2022. Two study investigators independently extracted data (parallel extraction) from each resource.

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Psychometric evaluation of the Health Care Provider HIV/AIDS Stigma Scale (HPASS) using Rasch analysis.

Curr Pharm Teach Learn

September 2022

Department of Health, Exercise Science, and Recreation Management, School of Applied Sciences, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, United States. Electronic address:

Introduction: The role of pharmacists is crucial in the care of individuals with HIV/AIDS. However, stigma in health care settings can be a deterrent to providing appropriate care. This paper assessed psychometric properties and convergent validity of the Health Care Provider HIV/AIDS Stigma Scale (HPASS) among pharmacy students in the United States (US) using Rasch analysis.

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Purpose: To determine the relationship of advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE) grading schemes and other pharmacy program variables (ie, program age and funding) with pharmacy residency match rates.

Summary: A 12-question survey was disseminated to experiential administrators of pharmacy programs in October 2018. Respondents identified their program's APPE grading scheme (pass/fail, letter grades, or other) and associated pros and cons.

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Background: Nearly 40% of patients do not continue proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 inhibitor (PCSK9i) therapy after 6 months, despite their ability to lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and risk of cardiovascular events. Limited work has assessed persistence to PCSK9i therapy in an integrated specialty pharmacy model.

Objective: To assess rates of persistence to PCSK9i therapy and report reasons for non-persistence in patients serviced within an integrated specialty pharmacy.

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Preparing student pharmacists to care for patients exposed to intimate partner violence.

Curr Pharm Teach Learn

December 2021

Pharmacy Administration, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, 209 Fasr Hall, University, MS 38677 United States. Electronic address:

Introduction: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious public health problem. Little is known about pharmacists' IPV knowledge and awareness. This study assessed student pharmacists' knowledge, attitudes, and awareness of IPV and examined the impact of a brief curricular unit on these factors.

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The (Contrasted) Ethics of Covid-19 and HIV: Will the Favor be Returned?

J Healthc Sci Humanit

January 2021

Associate Director of Education, Associate Professor at National Center of Bioethics in Research and Health Care, Director of the Bioethics Honors Program, Associate Senior Editor of the Journal of Healthcare, Science, and Humanities, Tuskegee University, 1200 W. Montgomery Rd., Tuskegee, Alabama 36088, , Email:

With 118,000 cases in 114 countries and 4291 global mortalities, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The origins were believed to be from Wuhan, China, and SARS CoV-2, a coronavirus, was quickly identified as the causative organism. Researchers at the National Institute of Health Vaccine Research Center identified the spike protein as the critical portion of the virus that allows for attachment to human cells.

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To evaluate how pharmacy programs administer and evaluate American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) curriculum quality perception surveys for continuous quality improvement, and to compare usage across the academy to the document. A 27-item survey instrument examining how schools used the curriculum quality survey was created and administered between March and June 2019 to assessment contacts of accredited schools and colleges of pharmacy. Descriptive statistics were performed for each survey item.

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Background: While pharmacy education standards require students to recognize social determinants of health (SDOH), there is an opportunity to improve how this is taught in the curriculum. One innovative approach is to educate student pharmacists in a biochemistry course through the integration of topics like epigenetics using SDOH as the framework.

Innovation: A 50-minute educational activity was used to supplement material on the regulation of gene expression, in which epigenetic changes are driven by SDOH.

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Description The world is in the midst of a pandemic from COVID-19, a disease caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. Despite broad mitigation efforts, new cases continue with 74 million cases and 1.6 million deaths worldwide.

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Background And Purpose: As the number of patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) in the United States grows, so does the importance of finding solutions for the unique challenges that may arise in the healthcare arena. The need for culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) is clear, and this topic provides fertile ground for interprofessional collaboration both in practice and education.

Educational Activity And Setting: The authors present a description of a six-hour interdisciplinary program offered as a dual continuing education and co-curricular opportunity for faculty, preceptors, and students in health professional programs at one university.

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The Committee was charged with the responsibility for examining the need for change in pharmacy education and the models of leadership that would enable that change to occur across the academy. They also examined the question of faculty wellbeing in a time of change and made several recommendations and suggestions regarding both charges. Building upon the work of the previous Academic Affairs Committee, the 2018-19 AAC encourages the academy to implement new curricular models supporting personalized learning that creates engaged and lifelong learners.

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Background: As the United States becomes more culturally diverse, health professionals must be able to demonstrate competency in caring for a multitude of diverse patients. The cultural proficiency continuum has proven to be an effective framework to assess where individuals and institutions are on the continuum of cultural sensitivity and competence in educational settings.

Innovation: A co-curricular activity was developed as an exercise in self-awareness to allow first year pharmacy students the opportunity to explore potential biases by evaluating comfort in both social and patient care settings.

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Introduction: Sustained virologic response (SVR) rates in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) monoinfection and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/HCV coinfection treated with direct acting antiviral (DAA) therapy are similar in clinical trials. The objective of this study was to examine differences in patient characteristics, drug-drug interactions, and treatment pathways between these groups in a real-world clinical setting.

Methods: We performed an ambispective review of patients prescribed DAA therapy between September 2015 and April 2018 at a tertiary academic center.

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