Economic burden and disparities in healthcare resource use among adult patients with cardiac arrhythmia.

Background: As of 2012, approximately 4.3 million Americans experience some form of cardiac arrhythmia (CA). Assessment of economic burden and healthcare resource use on the overall CA population is limited.

Association of patient demographics on quality of life in a sample of adult patients with cardiac arrhythmias.

Purpose: Identify predictors of quality of life (QOL) in patients with any form of cardiac arrhythmia (CA).

Methods: Data from the Medical Panel Expenditure Survey were analyzed from 2004 to 2009. Patients aged ≥18 with any form of CA (identified via ICD-9-CM codes) were included.

Health disparities in cost of care in patients with Alzheimer's disease: an analysis across 4 state Medicaid populations.

Objectives: To investigate health disparities with respect to cost of care across 4 state Medicaid populations.

Methods: Data were obtained from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for this retrospective study. Patients were enrolled in a California, Florida, New Jersey, or New York Medicaid programs during 2004, with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision 331.

Educating Pharmacy Students to Improve Quality (EPIQ) in colleges and schools of pharmacy.

Objective: To assess course instructors' and students' perceptions of the Educating Pharmacy Students and Pharmacists to Improve Quality (EPIQ) curriculum.

Methods: Seven colleges and schools of pharmacy that were using the EPIQ program in their curricula agreed to participate in the study. Five of the 7 collected student retrospective pre- and post-intervention questionnaires.

Results of the Arizona Medicaid health information technology pharmacy focus groups.

Background: In 2007, a federal Medicaid Transformation Grant was awarded to design, develop, and deploy a statewide Health Information Exchange and Electronic Health Record in Arizona, United States.

Objective: To explore the health information technology needs, knowledge, and expectations of Arizona's health care professionals, moderated focus groups were conducted. This article describes the results of the pharmacist focus groups.

Predicting adherence to immunosuppressant therapy: a prospective analysis of the theory of planned behaviour.

Background: The objective of this study was to increase the ability to predict renal transplant patients (RTPs) who are most likely to be non-adherent to their immunosuppressant therapy (IST).

Methods: One hundred and fifty-eight RTPs completed questionnaires assessing Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) variables (attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control) relevant to intentions to adhere to their IST, with the addition of a general measure of past adherence to medical advice. In the full sample, intentions to adhere to IST was the outcome variable.