BACKGROUND Clinical Pharmacist Practitioners are advanced practicing pharmacists in North Carolina that provide disease-specific management. The purpose of this retrospective cohort study was to compare the efficacy and charges from referrals to a Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner by the primary care provider, to those managed by a primary care provider alone. METHODS Patients were separated i...

PURPOSE A study was conducted to identify discrepancies between medication histories taken by emergency department (ED) providers (physicians, nurses, and medical students) and medication histories taken by clinical pharmacists. METHODS During a three-month period, a clinical pharmacist was assigned to the ED in a 475-bed, tertiary care teaching facility that serves as a level I trauma center...

JCPH – Vol. 63, n 1 – janvier–février 2010 92 Some of you have heard me speak about “the pharmacist narcotic effect”. By this I mean that some physicians may be skeptical of the value of pharmacists, but when they finally have the opportunity to work closely with a clinical pharmacist and personally experience the value that this individual brings to the health care team, they become “addicted”...

BACKGROUND The multidisciplinary approach to managing heart failure has been shown to improve outcomes. The role of a clinical pharmacist in treating heart failure has not been evaluated. METHODS One hundred eighty-one patients with heart failure and left ventricular dysfunction (ejection fraction <45) undergoing evaluation in clinic were randomized to an intervention or a control group. Pati...

OBJECTIVE To determine the acceptance and attitudes of family medicine physicians, clinical and nonclinical office staff, pharmacists, and patients during pharmacist integration into a medical home. DESIGN Qualitative study. SETTING Pittsburgh, PA, area from August 2009 to June 2010. PARTICIPANTS Physicians, staff, pharmacists, and patients at four single-specialty family medicine office ...

abstract background and purpose: attendance of nursing students in clinical settings is an inherent element of nursing education. this study aimed to evaluate the attitudes of nurses toward the attendance of nursing students in clinical settings in shahrekord, iran. methods: this descriptive study was conducted in hajar teaching hospital of shahrekord city, iran in 2015. using convenience sampl...

BACKGROUND Patients with hypertension continue to have less than optimal blood pressure control, with nearly one in five Canadian adults having hypertension. Pharmacist prescribing is gaining favor as a potential clinically efficacious and cost-effective means to improve both access and quality of care. With Alberta being the first province in Canada to have independent prescribing by pharmacis...

introduction: stress is an important factor in the educational process. teaching and learning are stressful processes. this stress can affect one’s ability and change his/her performance. the purpose of this study was to investigate stressors of clinical education from the perspective of medical students in yazd university of medical sciences. methods: this descriptive-analytic study was conduc...

introduction: clinical education is one of the most important and crucial parts of health science education. successful clinical education needs to adopt effective approaches that are based on up to date knowledge, clients’ and patients’ needs. therefore, it can prepare the learners for learning. this study aimed to introduce some new approaches in clinical education. methods: in this review st...