{"title":"Disease management and business alliances.","authors":"B A Russell, K M Patneau, L Tremonti","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80126,"journal":{"name":"Pharmacy practice management quarterly","volume":"18 1","pages":"81-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21049149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing data quality for decision support--emphasis on secondary analysis.","authors":"L L Lai","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In secondary analysis, the use of available data makes it possible for the researcher to bypass the most time-consuming and costly steps in the research process. However, there are some noteworthy pitfalls and problems in working with existing data, especially the uncertainty of data quality. If the integrity and quality of data are not assured, statistical analysis of the data will not be reliable, no matter what statistical procedure is used. If the analysis is not reliable, the information used for decision support will not be accurate.</p>","PeriodicalId":80126,"journal":{"name":"Pharmacy practice management quarterly","volume":"18 1","pages":"46-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21049141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decision support considerations in the development and implementation of an electronic medical record.","authors":"T A Mack","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The requirement for decision support capability has been a major force in the evolution of the electronic medical record (EMR). The EMR should deliver contextual information so that financial and clinical decision makers can efficiently, and with patient-centered understanding, deliver appropriate care. An organization's pursuit of the EMR is based in its need to overcome problems managing information and its analysis and to create a picture of the patient in terms of outcomes. This discussion is designed for use as a guide to how pharmacy management can support or lead an enterprise's EMR and decision support evolution.</p>","PeriodicalId":80126,"journal":{"name":"Pharmacy practice management quarterly","volume":"18 1","pages":"21-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21049396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving the process of medication budget forecasting.","authors":"L C Vermeulen, R M Marnocha, T S Thielke","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80126,"journal":{"name":"Pharmacy practice management quarterly","volume":"18 1","pages":"72-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21049146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Issues of decision support in institutional pharmacy systems.","authors":"L R Mackowiak, S L Hayward","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article discusses the challenges of implementation and maintenance of a decision support system operating within an institutional pharmacy information system. The basic principles of database building and configuration are reviewed. Issues with the common alert systems, allergy, drug interactions, drug-food, and duplicate are discussed. The challenges within dose-ranging programs are also described. Pharmacists are encouraged to develop population-based decision support systems and systems which add value at the individual patient level.</p>","PeriodicalId":80126,"journal":{"name":"Pharmacy practice management quarterly","volume":"18 1","pages":"35-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21049139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creating a team approach to hospital and college of pharmacy relationships: a strategy to integrate missions to enhance education and patient care.","authors":"J A Jorgenson, J W Mauger, G M Oderda","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Academic medical centers continue to bear the burden of the additional costs of professional education. Such institutions and their affiliated colleges of pharmacy are challenged to sustain the degree of professional staffing required to deliver quality education and patient care services. Historically, these relationships have not always proven to be cooperative and mutually beneficial. As managers and deans attempt to maximize the productivity of their financial and human resources, they will need to creatively structure relationships that effectively meet those diverse professional missions that sometimes seem to exist in conflict or that each seem to be successful only at the expense of the other. Pharmacists who act as both faculty, delivering experiential education, and clinical staff providing patient care, are significantly stressed in their attempts to meet the sometimes conflicting objectives of these multiple missions. The survival of precepted experiential education in pharmacy and of pharmaceutical care in academic medical center hospitals will likely depend upon a model of cooperative relationship, such as the venture described by Jorgenson, et al.</p>","PeriodicalId":80126,"journal":{"name":"Pharmacy practice management quarterly","volume":"17 4","pages":"67-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21046569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The integration of quality assessment and a patient-specific intervention/outcomes program.","authors":"A H Mutnick, K J Sterba, B A Szymusiak-Mutnick","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The clinical intervention program in place at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is based on the pharmacist's evaluation of the patient, the disease state, and the appropriateness of the selected therapy. The system was developed so that all pharmacists within our institution: staff pharmacists, clinical pharmacy specialists, clinical pharmacists, and pharmacy residents can easily and efficiently document all interactions with other health care providers. The recent introduction of the Medication Use Indicators process by the Joint Commission has provided many pharmacy departments with a series of outcome measurements which may prove useful in their attempts to maximize contributions to the medication use process. In this article, we describe how our department has begun to utilize the Joint Commission indicator data by integrating information from them into the daily practices of our staff, and how our department has utilized a formal interventions and outcomes program to evaluate such efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":80126,"journal":{"name":"Pharmacy practice management quarterly","volume":"17 4","pages":"25-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21046674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B F Shea, W W Churchill, S H Powell, T W Cooley, J H Maguire
{"title":"P&T Committee overview: Brigham and Women's Hospital.","authors":"B F Shea, W W Churchill, S H Powell, T W Cooley, J H Maguire","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80126,"journal":{"name":"Pharmacy practice management quarterly","volume":"17 4","pages":"76-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21046570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disease state management in diabetes care.","authors":"C E Cooke","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Diabetes affects over 16 million Americans. Caring for patients with diabetes requires extensive health care resources. Managed care organizations must utilize resources cost-effectively to survive in the health care industry. A disease state management program for diabetes may enable the managed care organization to meet its goal of providing cost-effective quality health care while meeting regulatory standards. The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) which accredits managed care organizations and provides information on performance, grants accreditation status to managed care organizations and reports favorable comparisons with competing managed care organizations.</p>","PeriodicalId":80126,"journal":{"name":"Pharmacy practice management quarterly","volume":"17 4","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21046672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hospital institutional review board committee: a pharmacist takes a seat.","authors":"E F Goll, P L Miner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80126,"journal":{"name":"Pharmacy practice management quarterly","volume":"17 4","pages":"48-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21046676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}