Professor of Medicine at the Mayo College of Medicine in Rochester, MN. He has been a consultant in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine since 1988 and after receiving all of his training at Mayo, he obtained board certification in all of these subspecialties. He is now president of NAMDRC, Vice-Chair of the ACCP Home Care Network, and a delegate to the ACCP Sleep Institu...

A subsemiring S of $$\mathbb {R}$$ is called a positive semiring provided that consists nonnegative numbers and $$1 \in S$$ . Here we study factorizations in both the additive monoid $$(S,+)$$ multiplicative $$(S\backslash \{0\}, \cdot )$$ In particular, investigate when, for S, have following properties: atomicity, ACCP, bounded factorization property (BFP), finite (FFP), half-factorial (HFP)....

1 Brightling CE. Clinical applications of induced sputum. Chest 2006; 129:1344–1348 2 Brightling CE. Chronic cough due to nonasthmatic eosinophilic bronchitis: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Chest 2006; 129(suppl):116S–121S 3 Melvin R. Pratter MR, Brightling CE, et al. An empiric integrative approach to the management of cough: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines...

ACCP is committed to ensuring that clinical pharmacists possess the competencies necessary to deliver comprehensive medication management in team-based, direct patient care environments. These competencies are divided into six essential domains: direct patient care, pharmacotherapy knowledge, systems-based care and population health, communication, professionalism, and continuing professional d...

1. Risk of lactobacillus infection in critically ill adults receiving lactobacillus probiotics. Zach Ruege, Pharm.D.; UGA College of Pharmacy, Augusta, GA INTRODUCTION: Probiotics have been advocated in critically ill patients to mitigate risk for developing Clostridium difficile infection and ventilator associated pneumonia. Critically ill patients display suppressed immune response of the int...

S: Diagnosis And Management Of Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Clinical Practice Guideline Update From The American College Of Physicians, American College Of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, And European Respiratory Society. Qaseem A, Wilt TJ, Weinberger SE, Hanania NA, Criner G, van der Molen T et al Ann Intern Med. 2011; 155(3):179-91 DESCRIPTION: This guideline i...

The purpose of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) is to advance human health by extending the frontiers of clinical pharmacy. Consistent with this mission and its core values, ACCP is committed to ensuring that clinical pharmacists possess the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors necessary to deliver comprehensive medication management (CMM) in team-based, direct patient ca...

BACKGROUND Diagnosis/grading of infection and the systemic response to infection may be difficult on admission to the intensive care unit, but it is even more complicated for severely ill patients with long intensive care stays. The ACCP-SCCM criteria are difficult to apply for such patients, and objective, validated biomarkers would be of great use in this setting. METHODS Long-term (>6 days...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present analysis from the epidemiologic international day for the evaluation of patients at risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE) in the acute hospital care setting (ENDORSE) study was to evaluate the prevalence of VTE risk in acute care hospitals and the proportion of at-risk medical and surgical patients who receive recommended prophylaxis in Switzerland. METHODS A...