Browsing by Department "Pharmacy Care Systems"
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Adoption and Implementation of the Health Watch Screening Program in Community Pharmacies
(2012-11-06)
Biometric screenings are an important first step in the prevention of heart disease, cerebrovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes but accessibility to these screenings can be limited. Community pharmacies are in a unique ...
Analyzing the Association between Impulsivity, Diabetes, Eating Behavior, Physical Activity Behavior, and Medication Adherence
(2015-12-07)
Background: Impulsivity has been shown to be associated with many unhealthy lifestyle factors: obesity, unhealthy eating, and decreased physical activity, all of which are associated with having diabetes. However, no study ...
Commitment to Change In Pharmacy Schools: Does Leadership Matter?
(2005-08-15)
The challenges of achieving the new vision in pharmacy education have been cited as an important reason for advocating transformational leadership as the kind of educational leadership that is required to assist the pharmacy ...
A Comparison of Dispensing Error Detection Methods for the Department of Defense
(2008-08-15)
Medication error rates in pharmacies range from 0.2% to 10% and there are
several detection methods in which these rates are determined. The observation and self
report methods for detecting medication errors are described ...
Designing an Instrument for Measuring Motivational Interviewing Skills Acquisition in Healthcare Professional Trainees
(2011-04-28)
Motivational interviewing (MI), as a counseling approach, has been used and evaluated extensively in the last decade. This approach has a significant impact on addiction management, change in lifestyle, and adherence to ...
Developing Condition-Specific Hospice Formularies for Congestive Heart Failure and Depression Conditions and The Evaluation of Their Economic Impact
(2006-08-15)
With the increasing costs of providing pharmaceutical care, hospices in the U.S
are burdened with the high costs of providing optimum healthcare. There is a need to
implement cost-containment strategies such as drug ...
Differences in Participant Recall and Preference Based on Patient Medication Information Format
(2016-05-05)
Patient medication information (PMI) is currently not meeting patients’ needs, especially those with low health literacy. Studies suggest that adding relevant images to otherwise textual PMI as well as video presentation ...
The Effect of Daily Pill Burden on the Probability of Discontinuation of Initial HAART Regimens
(2012-12-06)
Background: Given that lower pill burdens have been shown to be associated with an increased duration of initial therapy, there is a need to understand the effect of daily pill burden on the duration of the initial ...
The Effect Of Illumination On Medication Preparation Errors In A Long Term Care Facility
(2011-09-07)
The main objectives of this study were to (1) measure the effect of increased illumination levels on the medication preparation error rate in a long term care facility, and (2) measure the effect of increased illumination ...
The Effect of the Unit Dose Dispensing System on Medication Preparation and Administration Errors in Intravenous (IV) Drugs in a Chinese Hospital: Inpatient
(2012-03-29)
Intravenous (IV) errors are considered dangerous since IV drugs usually go directly into the patient’s vein. Chinese patients receive more than twice the IVs of all other patients, yet the nature of “medication errors” is ...
Evaluating the Impact of Cost, Perceived Benefit and Perceived Value on Prescription Drug Purchasing Behavior
(2005-05-15)
Many third party payers have implemented increased cost-sharing as a cost
containment strategy. Previous studies suggest that this may reduce health care costs by
reducing prescription drug expenditures. However, such ...
Evaluation of Medication Therapy Management (MTM) Services for Patients with Cardiovascular Disease
(2012-07-27)
Background: Medication therapy management (MTM) services are utilized to manage cardiovascular diseases.
Objectives: To 1.) compare economic outcomes between patients who received and those who did not receive MTM services ...
An Examination of Information Technology and its Perceived Quality Issues in Single System Hospitals in the United States
(2009-12-15)
The safety and quality of healthcare is of great concern in the United States. The positive effects of information technology reported in past research, especially case studies, has encouraged expectations that information ...
Explaining Pharmacists' Intentions to use Personal Digital Assistants as Clinical Resources During Patient Care Interventions
(2005-05-15)
This research project explored the ability of a modified Technology Acceptance Model 2 (TAM2) to explain pharmacists’ intentions to use personal digital assistants (PDAs) to document interventions. The Technology Acceptance ...
An Explanatory Study to Measure the Effect of an Expanded Target Interface for a Handheld Medication Order Entry Task
(2006-12-15)
This research experiment intended to determine whether an expanded target interface could improve a medication order task entered on a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) compared to a standard interface. Subjects in this ...
An Exploratory Study of Pharmacist Self-Reported Antidepressant Medication Counseling Behaviors
(2011-07-18)
Depression is a relatively common and serious mental health disorder, which is expected to become the second leading disease burden worldwide in the next decade. Despite the already high and increasing prevalence of ...
An Exploratory Study of the Perceived Use of Workarounds Utilized During the Prescription Preparation Process of Pharmacies in Alabama
(2009-05-20)
The use of workarounds has been mentioned in the literature of various healthcare disciplines. However, there has been limited research thoroughly investigating the workaround phenomena and none conducted exclusively in ...
An Initial Validation of a Two Dimensional Theory of Motivational Interviewing
(2012-04-30)
Patient non-adherence to treatment regimen is a major cause for increased healthcare utilization costs associated with emergency room visits, outpatient services and hospitalizations. The need to improve patient adherence ...
Outcomes of Treatment Modifications of Antihypertensive Regimens
(2015-07-17)
Antihypertensive treatment modifications (TMs)—addition, uptitration, switching, and downtitration–often are necessary to address issues such as unattained blood pressure (BP) goals, adverse drug events, drug cost, or ...
Prevention of Trastuzumab and Anthracycline-Induced Cardiotoxicity Using Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors or Beta-Blockers in Breast Cancer Patients
(2015-07-23)
Objectives: The purpose of this study was aimed to1) examine treatment patterns of anti-neoplastic agents prescribed to breast cancer patients, 2) estimate the incidence of and identify factors associated with adjuvant ...