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Scott R McCreadie

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PubMed2006

Evaluation of clinical research knowledge and interest among pharmacy residents: survey design and validation.

PURPOSE: The development and validation of a survey to describe the research knowledge, attitudes, and skills of pharmacy practice residents are described. SUMMARY: A survey was drafted to determine if pharmacy practice residency experience and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)-required project improve the residents' objectively and subjectively assessed research knowledge, to determine if the residency experience and the ASHP-required project affect the residents' attitudes regarding research as a component of their future professional practice, and to subjectively assess the effect of the residency experience and the ASHP-required project on other essential skills, such as problem solving, critical thinking, and time management. An initial questionnaire was developed and underwent content validation testing by clinical pharmacists and faculty, residents, and research fellows. Following content validation, the questionnaire underwent construct validity testing (for discriminative validity and responsiveness) in students, residents, and clinical pharmacists and faculty. Reliability was tested in a subgroup of subjects who completed the questionnaire twice within two to four weeks. From the content validation phase, average scores for individual questions ranged from 1.00 to 2.00. Discriminative validity testing of the revised questionnaire demonstrated the instrument's ability to discriminate between groups expected to differ. Effect-size and mean-knowledge score differences indicated high levels of responsiveness, signifying the instrument's ability to detect change over time or after an intervention. CONCLUSION: A survey questionnaire developed to measure research knowledge and interest among pharmacy practice residents demonstrated its validity and reliability with significant sensitivity and responsiveness.

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PubMed2005

Experiences incorporating Tablet PCcs into clinical pharmacists' workflow.

Tablet PCs are portable computers that combine the power of a laptop with an intuitive pendriven interface that have been heavily promoted for vertical industries such as healthcare. The authors describe their experiences with tablet PCs used by clinical pharmacists in a large academic medical center. A slate tablet with a large screen and wireless networking capability was chosen. Tablet PCs were issued to users with a customized 'pen-friendly" clinical application and secure access to the majority of available electronic patient information. In general, the feedback from the pilot users was positive. Users reported increased efficiency on patient care rounds; they say they reduced or eliminated paper notes and shadow charts from their daily routine. However, researchers also observed that some clinical practice workflow models or clinicians did not benefit from or were hindered by the mobile devices. The department plans to expand the use of tablet PCs through desktop replacement and is developing solutions to increase the applicability of tablet PCs for all clinical models and clinicians.

Computers, Handheld↗
PubMed2002

Building a better online formulary.

The history of and improvements made to the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) inpatient online formulary are described. The current formulary at UMHS is the third version of the Web-based formulary. The original effort in 1997 consisted of converting word-processing documents to HTML format and exporting this information to the university's intranet. There was no mechanism to search for formulary items, no therapeutic class cross-referencing, and no cost information. Documents and their conversion had to be manually maintained. The second version incorporated a series of automatic daily computer downloads from the inpatient pharmacy computer system. Web pages were built to dynamically display the formulary information from the database based on users' requests. The formulary enabled searching by brand or generic names, provided therapeutic category cross-references, listed the location of products within automated dispensing cabinets, provided accurate cost information, and was always up-to-date. Maintenance efforts drastically decreased. The current version has incorporated additional logic to meet users' needs. If no matches are found, the system expands its search by automatically linking to UMHS's inpatient pharmacy system repository of all drugs, finding matches to what the user entered, and then returning the names of therapeutically similar formulary agents to the user. A cross-index feature allows the system to return all the drugs that fall under the searched therapeutic category. Dramatic improvements have been made to UMHS's inpatient online formulary in the past two years. The current formulary provides a very low-cost, easily maintainable, and effective means to access the formulary and clinically relevant and timely information specific to each medication.

Computers↗
PubMed2002

Using personal digital assistants to access drug information.

The use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) to access drug information in a health system is described. Given the widespread use of PDAs at an 872-bed university health system, an opportunity existed to provide current drug information to physicians via these devices. As part of the health system's intranet, extensive online content had been made available through a browser; extension to PDAs was a natural next step. There were two primary requirements: the ability to synchronize information with the database server when a PDA was used and the development of content and applications by using existing staff. Mobile enterprise software was chosen that supports multiple PDA platforms, is easy to use, and does not require programming skills. The software works through customized "channels," or collections of information from a content provider. The customized channel service works over the Internet. Two channels of content were created, an ambulatory care channel and an inpatient care channel. The ambulatory care channel contains a list of preferred ambulatory care agents, poison control information, the locations of outpatient pharmacies, drug information, and safety tips for prescribing. The inpatient channel contains the inpatient formulary, current news and events, information on currrent drug shortages and recalls, pharmacy contact information, and medication safety tips. When a user synchronizes his or her PDA, the software contacts the department's intranet servers and processes the request. The data are compressed and downloaded to the user's PDA. A university health system successfully used PDAs to access drug and other information.

Clinical Pharmacy Information Systems↗