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| Drug information contexts |
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-specialist/practitioner/pharmacist/provider (individual or group of individuals)
-center/service/practice (place)
-function/skills (activities and abilities of individuals) |
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| characterization of DI centers |
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-most affiliated with medical centers, schools of pharmacy, pharm industry
-usually staffed by pharmacists
-most clients are health professionals
-unless affiliated with Poison Control Center, DICs affiliated with them rarely answer consumer questions
-approx. 120 DICs in US |
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-pharmaceutical industry
-traditional university
-hospital
-managed care organization
-poison control center |
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| pharmacists as DI specialists |
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-discovery (retrieval)
-interpretation (evaluation)
-dissemination (communication)
-foundation for DI practice
-most have minimum level of DI info skills and more extensive training in lit evaluation |
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| triad of skills of DI specialists |
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-DI
-biostatistics
-literature evaluation
-interdependent |
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-provision of data as they relate to any area of pharmacotherapy or pharmacy practice
-should be:
-reliable
-impartial
-well referenced
-critically appraised |
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-classify, measure, analyze and interpret health related data
-evidence based clinical decisions partially depend on biostats
-application of statistical techniques to scientific research
-pharmacists are not expected to expertly manipulate data but it is the key to avoiding invalid findings |
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| literature evaluation skills |
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-to make evidence based clinical decision and reccomendations on pharmaceutical care issues
-analyze and interpret information from a variety of sources
-pharmacist must integrate their clinical judgement along with lit evaluations |
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-books or databases that provide a summary or overview of information
-textbooks
-review articles (articles where the author has reviewed primary literature and provided a summary)
-information databases |
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| specialized tertiary literature |
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| -designed to address specific patient populations and types of inquiries |
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-an abstracting/indexing system that points to the primary literature
-Index Medicus
-Medline |
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-original works that introduce new knowledge or enhance existing knowledge
-article reporting results of a study
-abstracts (<200words) |
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| basics of good literature searching |
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-formulate question
-chose best database
-identify concepts
-chose search terms for those concepts
-combine and search statements |
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