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Therapeutic Use of KASPER and Urine Drug Screening and Testing in Clinical Practice

Anti Xa Reversal / Adverse Effects and Dangers of Florquinolone use

Fluoroquinolones are one of the most commonly prescribed antibiotics for infections such as pneumonia and urinary tract infections, however, this drug class carries several serious warnings and adverse effects...

Antibiotic Stewardship: Regulations, Mandates, and Use of National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)

Improved awareness of components of antimicrobial stewardship programs and knowledge of resources available to providers and facilities to meet mandates and conform to regulations & Education on...

Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines and Strategies for Implementing Antibiotic Stewardship Programs in Healthcare Settings

Culture stewardship is a pivotal component to appropriate diagnosis and treatment plans. A multidisciplanary approach and staying adept on the newest literature available is essential for optimal patient...

Interprofessional Collaboration – Why is it Important?

Antibiotic stewardship has primarily involved the physician and pharmacist; however, the overuse and misuse of antibiotics requires interprofessional collaboration and teamwork that includes physician,...

Bugonomics: Cost of Unnecessary Antibiotic Use

Inappropriate and over use of antibiotics lead to antimicrobial resistance, which is a public health threat. 

Diagnostic Stewardship: A Key to Decreasing Unnecessary Antimicrobial Use

Unnecessary testing can lead to unnecessary treatments. Improving testing of infectious disease syndromes can be a powerful tactic to improve the use of antibiotics.

The Overlooked and Often Underutilized Role of Nurses in Building Success Antibiotic Stewardship Programs

Antimicrobial resistance is a global, national, statewide, and facility-wide crisis. Patients with multi-drug resistant infections will continue to require expert nursing care in the hospital, long-term care...

Infectious Disease Management: Pneumonia and Bacteremia

Appropriate antibiotic selection and duration of therapy is an evolving concept as resistance patterns shift and new evidence regarding appropriate duration of therapy emerges. We would like to have...

Non-AD Dementias: Dementia with Lewy Bodies, Frontotemporal Dementia and Vascular Dementia, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Research Advances

High Intensity Euglycemia Therapy for Calcium Channel Blocker Toxicity

The implementation of a new high dose insulin protocol for calcium channel blocker and beta blocker overdose is needed as this will be a new therapy modality at our institution. Our goal is to increase...

PEEER Model

Health care professionals are trained to communicate within their own profession, but not among multiple professions.  Although there is an emerging understanding of, and training for, interprofessional...

Update in Antiplatelet therapy

Due to the advancement of drug eluting stent technology and the development and publication of randomized controlled trials involving newer agents such as ticagrelor, prasugrel, and cangrelor, the landscape of...

Keeping Kidneys Safe: Pharmacist's Role in Counseling High-Risk Patients on NSAID Use to Prevent Kidney Injury

An estimated 36 million Americans use over-the-counter analgesics on a daily basis. These pain relievers include NSAIDs such as ibuprofen and naproxen and are widely available in large quantities not only in...

Facilitating Small Interprofessional Learning Groups

Research has established the effectiveness of small group learning in health professions education as an active learning strategy that can enhance student motivation, improve communication skills, and...

Billing and Coding

There is a large body of knowledge related to documentation, coding and billing for trauma and surgical critical care services that is necessary for a surgeon to know in order to attain fair reimbursement for...

Responding to the Prescription Opioid and Heroin Crisis: An Epidemic of Addiction

Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for...

Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy: Where We Are, What We Know, What We Are Doing at UK

Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for...

Tips for Prescribing/Dispensing Controlled Substances Within the Law

Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for...

Reducing Stigma: The Past, Present and Future of Recovery

Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for...

Surviving Dreamland and Challenges of Opioids in Front Line Medicine

Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for...

Improving Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Through Development of Novel Formulations of Buprenorphine

Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for...

Understanding Abusive Head Trauma and Child Physical Abuse

Kentucky continues to be a leading state in deaths of children related to child abuse. Specific bruising patterns are significant indicators of abuse. Knowing these patterns, recognizing crucial warning signs,...

ECMO and Ambulatory ECMO as Bridge to Transplant

Physicians at UKHealthCare have used Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) for adults with severe cardiac or respiratory failure since 1993. ECMO support is generally employed in patients when...

Chronic Opiate Analgesic Therapy (COAT) in a Primary Care Outpatient Clinic: Patient Perspective on Quality Improvement

Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for...

MACRA

There are significant changes to Medicare and Medicaid physician payments tied to quality and value starting in January, 2017. This module was created to prepare healthcare providers for the changes under the...

Introduction to Radon

Lung cancer is almost totally preventable by eliminating firsthand and secondhand smoking and radon exposure. Exposure to radon, a colorless, odorless gas from the decomposition of uranium in the ground, is...

Kidney and Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation: Evaluation and Management

According to the NIH, an estimated 23 million American adults have chronic kidney disease (CKD) and the National Kidney Foundation reports that Medicare spends $31 billion annually to treat patients with...

An Update on the Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting System (KASPER)

Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for...

The Quality Improvement Journey: Implementing a Quality Improvement Project in PHM

In order to effectively and efficiently practice Population Health Management, health care providers must be able to make changes in their organization by implementing sustainable quality improvement projects...