Practice-enhancing publications about the medication-use process in 2020

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler A Vest ◽  
Nicholas P Gazda ◽  
Daniel P O’Neil ◽  
Daniel H Schenkat ◽  
Stephen F Eckel
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Medication Use ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Medical Subject Headings ◽  
Changing Practice ◽  
Medication Utilization ◽  
Pubmed Search ◽  
One Step ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract 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. Purpose This article identifies, prioritizes, and summarizes published literature on the medication-use process (MUP) from calendar year 2020 that can impact health-system pharmacy daily practice. Summary The MUP is the foundational system that provides the framework for safe medication utilization within the healthcare environment. The MUP is defined in this article as having the following components: prescribing/transcribing, dispensing, administration, and monitoring. Articles evaluating at least one step of the MUP were assessed for their usefulness in practice improvement. A PubMed search for articles published in calendar year 2020 was conducted in January 2021 using targeted Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) keywords, and the table of contents of selected pharmacy journals was searched, providing a total of 9,433 articles. A thorough review identified 49 potentially practice-enhancing articles: 15 for prescribing/transcribing, 10 for dispensing, 6 for administration, and 18 for monitoring. Ranking of the articles for importance by peers led to the selection of key articles from each category. The highest-ranked articles are briefly summarized, with a mention of why they are important within health-system pharmacy. The other articles are listed for further review and evaluation. Conclusion It is important to routinely review the published literature and to incorporate significant findings into daily practice. This article assists in identifying and summarizing the most impactful recently published literature. Health-system pharmacists have an active role in improving the MUP in their institution, and awareness of the moist significant published studies can assist in changing practice at the institutional level.

Practice-enhancing publications about the medication-use process in 2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 77 (10) ◽  
pp. 759-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler A Vest ◽  
Nicholas P Gazda ◽  
Daniel H Schenkat ◽  
Stephen F Eckel
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Medication Use ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Practice Change ◽  
Medical Subject Headings ◽  
Changing Practice ◽  
Medication Utilization ◽  
Pubmed Search ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract Purpose This article identifies, prioritizes, and summarizes published literature on the medication-use process (MUP) from calendar year 2018 that can impact health-system pharmacy daily practice. The MUP is the foundational system that provides the framework for safe medication utilization within the healthcare environment. The MUP is defined in this article as having the following steps: prescribing/transcribing, dispensing, administration, and monitoring. Articles that evaluated one of the steps were gauged for their usefulness toward daily practice change. Summary A PubMed search was conducted in February 2019 for articles published in calendar year 2018 using targeted Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) keywords, targeted non-MeSH keywords, and the table of contents of selected pharmacy journals, providing a total of 43,977 articles. A thorough review identified 62 potentially significant articles: 9 for prescribing/transcribing, 12 for dispensing, 13 for administration, and 28 for monitoring. Ranking of the articles for importance by peers led to the selection of key articles from each category. The highest-ranked articles are briefly summarized, with a mention of why they are important within health-system pharmacy. The other articles are listed for further review and evaluation. Conclusion It is important to routinely review the published literature and to incorporate significant findings into daily practice. This article assists in identifying and summarizing recent impactful contributions to the MUP literature. Health-system pharmacists have an active role in improving the MUP in their institution, and awareness of significant published studies can assist in changing practice at the institutional level.

Practice-enhancing publications about the medication-use process in 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-153
Author(s):  
Tyler A Vest ◽  
Nicholas P Gazda ◽  
Daniel H Schenkat ◽  
Stephen F Eckel
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Medication Use ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Practice Change ◽  
Medical Subject Headings ◽  
Changing Practice ◽  
Pubmed Search ◽  
Area Health ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract Purpose This article identifies, prioritizes, and summarizes published literature on the medication-use process (MUP) from calendar year 2019 that can impact health-system pharmacy daily practice. The MUP is the foundational system that provides the framework for safe medication utilization within the healthcare environment. The MUP is defined in this article as having the following components: prescribing/transcribing, dispensing, administration, and monitoring. Articles that evaluated one of the steps were gauged for their usefulness in promoting daily practice change. Summary A PubMed search was conducted in January 2020 for calendar year 2019 using targeted Medical Subject Headings keywords; in addition, searches of the table of contents of selected pharmacy journals were conducted. A total of 4,317 articles were identified. A thorough review identified 66 potentially practice-enhancing articles: 17 for prescribing/transcribing, 17 for dispensing, 7 for administration, and 25 for monitoring. Ranking of the articles for importance by peers led to the selection of key articles from each category. The highest-ranked articles are briefly summarized, with a mention of why each article is important within health-system pharmacy. The other articles are listed for further review and evaluation. Conclusion It is important to routinely review the published literature and to incorporate significant findings into daily practice; this article assists in identifying and summarizing the most impactful recently published literature in this area. Health-system pharmacists have an active role in improving the MUP in their institution, and awareness of the significant published studies can assist in changing practice at the institutional level.

Significant Publications About the Medication Use Process in 2012

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah J. Moore ◽  
Alexander T. Jenkins ◽  
Lindsey B. Poppe ◽  
Erinn C. Rowe ◽  
Stephen F. Eckel
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Medication Use ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Medical Subject Headings ◽  
Health Care Environment ◽  
Care Environment ◽  
Safe Patient Care ◽  
Changing Practice ◽  
Pubmed Search

Purpose: This article identifies, prioritizes, and summarizes the published literature on the medication use process (MUP) from calendar year 2012 that can impact health-system pharmacists’ daily practice. Summary: The MUP is the foundational system that provides the framework for safe patient care within the health care environment. The MUP is defined in this article as having the following components: prescribing/transcribing, dispensing, administration, and monitoring. A PubMed search was conducted in January 2013 for calendar year 2012 using targeted Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) keywords, providing a total of 944 articles. A thorough review identified 46 potentially significant articles: 14 for prescribing/transcribing, 12 for dispensing, 10 for administration, and 10 for monitoring. Peer review led to the selection of key articles from each category. These articles are briefly summarized, with a mention of why this article is important within health-system pharmacy. The other articles are listed for further review and evaluation. Conclusion: It is important to routinely review the published literature and to incorporate significant findings into daily practice. Health-system pharmacists have an active role in improving the MUP in their institution and awareness of the significant published studies can assist in changing practice at the institutional level.

scholarly journals Membrane Distillation for the Production of Pharmaceutical-Grade Water—Investigation into the Application of AGMD and VMD

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 6058
Author(s):  
Cornelius Nellessen ◽  
Thomas Klein ◽  
Hans-Jürgen Rapp ◽  
Frank Rögener
Keyword(s):  
Energy Demand ◽  
Tap Water ◽  
Membrane Distillation ◽  
Pharmaceutical Products ◽  
Optimum Process ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Pharmaceutical Ingredients ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
One Step ◽  
Selection Of

The production of pharmaceutical ingredients, intermediates and final products strongly depends on the utilization of water. Water is also required for the purification and preparation of reagents. Each specific application determines the respective water quality. In the European Union, the European Pharmacopeia (Ph. Eur.) contains the official standards that assure quality control of pharmaceutical products during their life cycle. According to this, the production of water for pharmaceutical use is mainly based on multi-stage distillation and membrane processes, especially, reverse osmosis. Membrane distillation (MD) could be an alternative process to these classical methods. It offers advantages in terms of energy demand and a compact apparatus design. In the following study, the preparation of pharmaceutical-grade water from tap water in a one-step process using MD is presented. Special emphasis is placed on the performance of two different module designs and on the selection of optimum process parameters.

scholarly journals A multi-site cutting device implements efficiently the divide-and-conquer strategy in tumor sampling

F1000Research ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 1587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose I. Lopez ◽  
Jesus M. Cortes
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Data ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Divide And Conquer ◽  
Intratumor Heterogeneity ◽  
Pathology Laboratory ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
French Fry ◽  
Histological Processing ◽  
Tumor Sampling ◽  
Selection Of

We recently showed that in order to detect intra-tumor heterogeneity a Divide-and-Conquer (DAC) strategy of tumor sampling outperforms current routine protocols. This paper is a continuation of this work, but here we focus on DAC implementation in the Pathology Laboratory. In particular, we describe a new simple method that makes use of a cutting grid device and is applied to clear cell renal cell carcinomas for DAC implementation. This method assures a thorough sampling of large surgical specimens, facilitates the demonstration of intratumor heterogeneity, and saves time to pathologists in the daily practice. The method involves the following steps: 1. Thin slicing of the tumor (by hand or machine), 2. Application of a cutting grid to the slices (e.g., a French fry cutter), resulting in multiple tissue cubes with fixed position within the slice, 3. Selection of tissue cubes for analysis, and finally, 4. Inclusion of selected cubes into a cassette for histological processing (with about eight tissue fragments within each cassette). Thus, using our approach in a 10 cm in-diameter-tumor we generate 80 tumor tissue fragments placed in 10 cassettes and, notably, in a tenth of time. Eighty samples obtained across all the regions of the tumor will assure a much higher performance in detecting intratumor heterogeneity, as proved recently with synthetic data.

scholarly journals The opportunities of social diagnostic methods’ application in modern pedagogical practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
Liliia Kononenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Diagnostic Methods ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Recent Graduates ◽  
Diagnostic Work ◽  
Social Pedagogue ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Made In

The attempt to expand the traditional academic ideas about diagnostics in social work has been made, in particular the selection of social diagnostic methods, the purposes of their application, professional situations and focus groups in which these methods can be applied.The research determines the opportunities of application social diagnostics in pedagogical practice, to identify the optimal methods of social diagnostics and the conditions in which it is advisable to apply this type of diagnostic by professional participants of the educational process.Other methods have been proposed in addition to the classic list of social diagnostic methods, such as interlocution, interviews and surveys of all types; they are unpopular in modern social and socio-pedagogical work, but due to their accessibility, validity, ease of processing and in formativeness can be used even by recent graduates. These include a genogram, a family sociogram, as well as an eco-map, the map of social environment and the map of social contacts.The viability of applying social diagnostic methods in a teacher’s daily practice for preventing, revealing and solving social problems has been determined.During the investigation, the author concludes that social diagnostic is the most significant technique among many universal ones that a social worker/social pedagogue can use in his/her work. The optimal location for diagnostic work is an educational institution. It provides quick access to the client base with the widest range, allows you to work with clients in the system of social relations, enables diagnostic work with less motivational pressure, covers relationships with parents/families and facilitates their involvement in preventive work

scholarly journals Games for and by Teachers and Learners

Gamification ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 1706-1733
Author(s):  
Peter van Rosmalen ◽  
Amanda Wilson ◽  
Hans G.K. Hummel
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
General Impression ◽  
One Step ◽  
Enhanced Learning

With the advent of social media, it is widely accepted that teachers and learners are not only consumers but also may have an active role in contributing and co-creating lesson materials and content. Paradoxically, one strand of technology-enhanced learning (i.e. game-based learning) aligns only slightly to this development. Games, while there to experience, explore, and collaborate, are almost exclusively designed by professionals. Despite, or maybe because, games are the exclusive domain of professional developers, the general impression is that games require complex technologies and that games are difficult to organise and to embed in a curriculum. This chapter makes a case that games are not necessarily the exclusive domain of game professionals. Rather than enforcing teachers to get acquainted with and use complex, technically demanding games, the authors discuss approaches that teachers themselves can use to build games, make use of existing games, and even one step beyond use tools or games that can be used by learners to create their own designs (e.g. games or virtual worlds).

scholarly journals Intensity of Task-Specific Training for Functional Ability Post-stroke: Protocol for a Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rabiu Ibrahim ◽  
Isa Usman Lawal ◽  
Conran Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Literature Search ◽  
Risk Of Bias ◽  
Controlled Trials ◽  
Cochrane Central Register ◽  
Specific Training ◽  
Medical Subject Headings ◽  
Mesh Terms ◽  
Pubmed Search ◽  
Evidence Database

Abstract Background This study aimed to describe and present detailed protocol of a systematic review aimed at determining available research evidence regarding the intensity, and frequency of task-specific training ( TST ) that can best result in improved motor function and mobility outcomes in both upper and lower extremities in acute, sub-acute and chronic stroke survivors. Methods Literature search strategies were developed using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms and text key words related to stroke rehabilitation and the use of TST to search for relevant randomized controlled trials (RCTs). The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, MEDLINE (PubMed search engine), Excerpta Medica dataBASE (EMBASE), Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro), Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), and Google Scholar were searched for eligible articles published from inception to date. Two reviewers independently screened the titles, selected appropriate abstract/studies and extracted relevant data as yielded by the search based on the study inclusion criteria. Assessment of the study risk of bias and quality of included studies were appraised using the Cochrane’s tool for assessing risk of bias or other appropriate tools. Discussion This paper presented the description of the systematic review methods, and it is expected to guide researchers in conducting systematic review in similar fields of research. Sources of literature search terms and reviewers have been determined. Systematic review registration The study protocol has been registered with PROSPERO (130991)

15. Remedies providing for specific relief and restitutionary remedies

2021 ◽  
pp. 769-796
Author(s):  
Robert Merkin ◽  
Séverine Saintier
Keyword(s):  
Attorney General ◽  
Supreme Court Decision ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Specific Performance ◽  
Total Failure ◽  
One Step ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Selection Of

Poole’s Casebook on Contract Law provides a comprehensive selection of case law that addresses all aspects of the subject encountered on undergraduate courses. This chapter deals with remedies providing for specific relief and so-called ‘restitutionary’ remedies. It first considers debt claims (agreed sums), before turning to specific performance and injunctions. It concludes by discussing restitution—recovery where there has been a total failure of consideration, and recovery on a quantum meruit (as where a contract fails to materialize)—following the Supreme Court decision of Morris-Garner and another v One Step (Support Ltd) and its impact on Wrotham Park damages and the availability and nature of the account of profits in Attorney-General v Blake.

Failure to Thrive: The Perfect Storm

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 388-393
Author(s):  
Demetra Antimisiaris ◽  
Kristina Niehoff
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
System Dynamics ◽  
Health System ◽  
Medication Use ◽  
Failure To Thrive ◽  
Medication Administration ◽  
Cognitively Impaired ◽  
Rapid Weight Loss ◽  
Perfect Storm

In this case, a 93-year-old woman declines rapidly following glossectomy surgery and experiences rapid weight loss. She becomes withdrawn and uncommunicative and is diagnosed as failure to thrive and potentially cognitively impaired. The eventual explanation for her decline is unexpected, surprising—and counterintuitive. This case illustrates the importance of investigating every aspect of medication use related to outcomes including medication administration, therapeutics, and health system dynamics.

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