A Review of the Three Types of Biomedical Literature and the Systematic Approach to Answer a Drug Information Request

1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 148-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Gooch Wright ◽  
Rhonda Lea Lecroy ◽  
Michael G. Kendrach
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Drug Information ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Biomedical Literature ◽  
Pharmacy Students ◽  
Information Request ◽  
Primary Literature ◽  
Different Types

The pharmacist is relied upon to provide drug information on a daily basis for patients and health care professionals. Performing drug information tasks requires the ability to efficiently search, critically analyze, and objectively evaluate the biomedical literature. Pharmacists and pharmacy students need to understand the biomedical literature and an organized method to answer drug information questions. Therefore, the tertiary, secondary, and primary literature resources are defined and examples are presented. In addition, the modified systematic approach to answer a drug information request is reviewed. Understanding the different types of literature and applying the systematic approach assists practitioners in efficiently supplying drug information. The purpose of this article is to assist the pharmacist and pharmacy student in determining the strengths and limitations of the various types of literature and applying the systematic approach to a drug information inquiry.

Incorporating a Drug Information Consult into a Pharmacy Practice Course to Build Literature Search and Evaluation Skills Through a 3-Stage Model

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Wittman ◽  
Craig Kovera ◽  
Maureen Sullivan ◽  
Martha M. Rumore
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Drug Information ◽  
Pharmacy Practice ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Pharmacy Students ◽  
Faculty Support ◽  
Primary Literature ◽  
Information Skills ◽  
Stage 1 ◽  
Based Medicine

Objective: Pharmacy students need to be equipped with skills to research and evaluate literature to effectively apply evidence-based medicine (EBM) in practice. To prepare them, a 3-stage approach to writing a drug information consult (3sDIC) was incorporated into a pharmacy course. The primary objective was to assess students’ abilities to retrieve and analyze literature pursuant to a drug information consult. Secondary objectives were to examine feasibility of faculty participation and continuation of the assignment. Design: Ninety students were given a clinical scenario about a patient. The assignment consisted of 3 stages incorporating use of the Population, Intervention, Comparison intervention, Outcome (PICO) method and modified systematic approach (MSA) for stage 1, evaluation of primary literature to write a draft for stage 2, and stage 3, the final consult. All 3 stages were reviewed and graded by faculty. Assessment: All students completed the 3sDIC, with no grade failures. The rubric employed by faculty was effective, providing students the opportunity to improve the consult. The 3sDIC was found to be feasible with adequate faculty support. Conclusion: The 3sDIC, although not a substitute for a complete drug information course, demonstrated a streamlined approach for Pharmacy year 2 (P2) students to acquire and develop drug information skills.

Desirable Skills in New Pharmacists

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine E. O’Brien ◽  
Schwanda K. Flowers ◽  
Cindy D. Stowe
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Drug Information ◽  
Pharmacy Practice ◽  
Pharmacy Students ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
New Graduates ◽  
Ethics Management ◽  
Pharmacy Curriculum ◽  
Survey Responses

Objective: To compare survey responses between licensed pharmacists who work with or employ new graduates and graduating senior pharmacy students at a college of pharmacy. Design: This was a retrospective analysis of surveys given to 2 groups of pharmacists and students. Responses to items regarding importance of desirable qualities in new pharmacists and level of preparation of new graduates were analyzed. Qualities included drug information, pharmacology, therapeutics, communication with patients/customers or health care professionals, professionalism, ethics, management, and conflict resolution. Results: There was consensus between pharmacists and students regarding the importance of all items ( P > .05 for all comparisons). However, the percentage of pharmacists versus students who agreed that new graduates communicate effectively differed (86.7% vs 100%, respectively, P < .05). Of pharmacists surveyed at a career fair, 64.1% chose communication as the 1 skill that would distinguish an applicant, and retail and hospital pharmacists displayed a statistically significant ( P < .05) difference in the audience (patients/customers vs other health care professionals). Conclusion: Pharmacists and students agree on the knowledge and skills essential for pharmacy practice but disagree on the level of preparation for effective communication. These results support ongoing efforts to improve the development of communication skills in the professional pharmacy curriculum.

Development of a Drug Information Service Collaborative in Academia

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-289
Author(s):  
Jeeseon Kim ◽  
Rebecca Hoover ◽  
Scott Perkins ◽  
Ashish Advani
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Drug Information ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Service Initiative ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
Common Barriers ◽  
High Quality Service ◽  
Large Health Care System

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been positively accepted by clinicians; however, there are barriers to practicing EBM that create gaps between EBM and current clinical practice. A pharmacist-led drug information (DI) service initiative was established to overcome common barriers to practicing EBM. The service utilizes technology and a collaborative model among otherwise independent academic DI centers to provide efficient high-quality service to health care professionals. It was piloted at a large health care system with positive user satisfaction. The unique technological collaborative has shown several benefits, including increased efficiency and peer learning among DI pharmacists.

Characterization of Complementary and Alternative Medicine-Related Consultations in an Academic Drug Information Service

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 539-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip J. Gregory ◽  
Mohamed A. Jalloh ◽  
Andrew M. Abe ◽  
James Hu ◽  
Darren J. Hein
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Medicine ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Drug Information ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Therapeutic Use ◽  
Drug Information Service ◽  
Complementary And Alternative

Purpose: To characterize requests received through an academic drug information consultation service related to complementary and alternative medicines. Methods: A retrospective review and descriptive analysis of drug information consultations was conducted. Results: A total of 195 consultations related to complementary and alternative medicine were evaluated. All consultation requests involved questions about dietary supplements. The most common request types were related to safety and tolerability (39%), effectiveness (38%), and therapeutic use (34%). Sixty-eight percent of the requests were from pharmacists. The most frequent consultation requests from pharmacists were questions related to drug interactions (37%), therapeutic use (37%), or stability/compatibility/storage (34%). Nearly 60% of complementary and alternative medicine-related consultation requests were able to be completely addressed using available resources. Among review sources, Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, Clinical Pharmacology, Micromedex, and Pharmacist’s Letter were the most common resources used to address consultations. Conclusion: Utilization of a drug information service may be a viable option for health care professionals to help answer a complementary and alternative medicine-related question. Additionally, pharmacists and other health care professionals may consider acquiring resources identified to consistently answering these questions.

scholarly journals Impact of Automatic Query Generation and Quality Recognition Using Deep Learning to Curate Evidence From Biomedical Literature: Empirical Study (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Afzal ◽  
Maqbool Hussain ◽  
Khalid Mahmood Malik ◽  
Sungyoung Lee
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Biomedical Literature ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Recognition Model ◽  
Content Quality ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Evidence Quality ◽  
Literature Curation

BACKGROUND The quality of health care is continuously improving and is expected to improve further because of the advancement of machine learning and knowledge-based techniques along with innovation and availability of wearable sensors. With these advancements, health care professionals are now becoming more interested and involved in seeking scientific research evidence from external sources for decision making relevant to medical diagnosis, treatments, and prognosis. Not much work has been done to develop methods for unobtrusive and seamless curation of data from the biomedical literature. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to design a framework that can enable bringing quality publications intelligently to the users’ desk to assist medical practitioners in answering clinical questions and fulfilling their informational needs. METHODS The proposed framework consists of methods for efficient biomedical literature curation, including the automatic construction of a well-built question, the recognition of evidence quality by proposing extended quality recognition model (E-QRM), and the ranking and summarization of the extracted evidence. RESULTS Unlike previous works, the proposed framework systematically integrates the echelons of biomedical literature curation by including methods for searching queries, content quality assessments, and ranking and summarization. Using an ensemble approach, our high-impact classifier E-QRM obtained significantly improved accuracy than the existing quality recognition model (1723/1894, 90.97% vs 1462/1894, 77.21%). CONCLUSIONS Our proposed methods and evaluation demonstrate the validity and rigorousness of the results, which can be used in different applications, including evidence-based medicine, precision medicine, and medical education.

Falls Suffered by Elderly People From the Perspective of Health Care Personnel: A Qualitative Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 675-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo J. López-Soto ◽  
A. García-Arcos ◽  
F. Fabbian ◽  
R. Manfredini ◽  
M. A. Rodríguez-Borrego
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Thematic Content Analysis ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Set Up

An exploratory interpretative study was carried out to recognize the factors regarded by health care professionals as potential obstacles to the evaluation, prevention, and documentation of falls in persons above 65 years of age. Focus groups and questionnaires were carried out. Audio recordings were made, and these were subsequently transcribed and analyzed in accordance with the Bardin’s thematic content analysis. Four focus groups of four persons were set up, and 16 questionnaires were returned. Four thematic categories were obtained. The analysis showed a lack of data in records of falls, perhaps for reasons of overwork, lack of motivation, awareness, or consistency in the registration systems in use. Health care professionals document two types of fall, depending on the elderly person’s ability to carry out everyday tasks. There is not a rigorous and systematic approach for recording falls. Perspectives from health care professionals could help in analyzing the causes of falls and suggesting comprehensive preventive measures.

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