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How We Close The Gaps: Our Interprofessional Team Approach To Meeting Quality Measures, Peter Blockhurst, William Buselmeier, Mckenzie Calhoun, Paige Gilbert-Green, Jesse Gilbreath, Erin Harris, Amy Lawrence

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• Define the role/function of an interprofessional team in the management of complex outpatients.
• Identify the types of patients that would benefit most from a team-based approach.
• Implement elements of our team-based patient care model into individual practices.

Student Pharmacists’ Personal Finance Perceptions, Projected Indebtedness Upon Graduation, And Career Decision-Making, Nicholas E. Hagemeier, Chad K. Gentry, Debbie C. Byrd, Leonard B. Cross, Daniel Rose, Nasar Ansari, Pooja Subedi, Tandy Branham

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Objectives: To evaluate the extent to which students’ personal finance perceptions, projected student loan indebtedness, and demographic characteristics predict post-PharmD career intentions.

Methods: Students at three pharmacy colleges completed a 31-item survey instrument that assessed personal finance perceptions, self-efficacy beliefs, anticipated student loan debt upon graduation, postgraduate intentions, anticipated practice setting upon graduation, and demographic characteristics. Logistic regression models were used to examine the extent to which personal finance perceptions, student loan indebtedness, and demographic characteristics predicted postgraduate intentions and anticipated practice setting.

Results: A total of 763 usable responses were obtained (response rate=90.3%). Students reported an anticipated personal student …

An Update On The Opioid Epidemic: Perception Vs. Reality, Nicholas E. Hagemeier

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Using Mock Interviews To Evaluate An Interprofessional Education (Ipe) Curriculum, Ivy A. Click, Jodi Polaha, Leonard Brian Cross, Richard A. Hess, Adam C. Welch, Jessica Epley Burchette

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The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of targeted team care training in our institution’s interprofessional practice and education (IPE) program on medical and pharmacy students' expression of knowledge and attitudes about team care as measured in a mock interview. Medical and Pharmacy students were recruited to participate in a 20-minute mock interview for an advanced placement position.

Relationship Of Patient Self-Administered Copd Assessment Test (Cat) To Physician Standard Assessment Of Copd In A Family Medicine Residency Training Program, Leigh Johnson, Jessica Burchette, Ivy A. Click, Sandra Alicia Williams

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. COPD is of particular concern in certain sectors of the country, including Central Appalachia where our clinic is located. Assessing patients with COPD presents many challenges as symptoms range from those considered "typical" such as shortness of breath and sputum production to those less often identified like anxiety and social isolation. We conducted a pilot study comparing physician standard assessment of COPD to patient self-assessment using the COPD Assessment Test (CAT). The CAT is an eight-item questionnaire that measures the impact COPD has …

Mannitol Prescribing Practices With Cisplatin Before And After An Educational Newsletter Intervention, Morgan Corbin, John B. Bossaer

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Background: Mannitol has been used in the past for the prevention of cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity. Studies on its efficacy have conflicting results. An educational newsletter was designed for local oncologists on the conflicting data of mannitol use in preventing cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine whether a pharmacist-created newsletter intervention led to changes in the mannitol prescribing practices of local oncologists. Methods: A newsletter describing the paucity of evidence to support mannitol use to prevent cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity was distributed via e-mail to local oncologists in October 2010. Mannitol prescribing rates were retrospectively evaluated before and after …