BCACP Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Prospective study design begin in the present and progress forward, collecting data from subjects whose outcomes lie in the future Retrospective study design Begin and end in the present; however, this design involves a major backward look to collect information about events that occurred in the past Hierarchy of clinical study designs Internal validity in study design -validity within the confines of the study methods -does the study design adequately and appropriately ...

definition of CKD according to GFR GFR less than 60 for 3 months, with or without kidney damanage GFR categories: G1 > 90 GFR categories: G2 60-89 GFR categories: G3a 45-59 GFR categories: G3b 30-44 GFR categories: G4 15-29 GFR categories: G5 Less than 15 or treatment by dialysis albumin categories: A1 ACR less than 30 albumin categories: A2 30-300 albumin categoies: A3 over 300 when to use urine collection for gf...

CTP class A points 5-6 points CTP class B points 7-9 points CTP class C points 10-15 points CTP encephalopathy points 1 = absent 2 = medically controlled 3 = poorly controlled CTP ascites points 1 = absent 2 = diuretic response 3 = diuretic refractory CTP bilirubin points 1 = <2 2 = 2-3 3 = >3 CTP albumin points 1 = >3.5 2 = 2.8-3.5 3 = <2.8 CTP INR points 1 = <1.7 2 = 1.7-2.3 3 = >2.3 first line therapy ...

The pharmacy and therapeutics (P&T) committee at a children's hospital is reviewing an application to add an antimicrobial agent that is active against highly resistant gram-negative bacteria and has new data for use in children. There is a desire to add this medication to formulary, but there are concerns about resistance development to this medication, which has occurred in adult populations. Which strategy is best for adding this medication to formulary? a. Maintain the antibiotic as a no...

Pharmacist mission improve public health through ensuring the safe, effective, and appropriate use of medications 4 main clinical pharmacy practice models pharmaceutical care MTM comprehensive med mgmt CDTM Morisky Questionnaire predictive adherence measurement tool - 1+ drugs in a regimen for a particular disease - screen for knowledge gaps and motivational issues Adherence Estimator Used only for individual drugs Pt Ed Materials Assessment (PEMAT) tool usa...

most common cancers? (3) lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer Best 2 guidelines? NCCN and ASCO Mutations for lung cancer? Kras, EGFR others implications of K-ras mutation? nonresponsive to anti-EGFR therapties any harm in continuin gsmoking during treatmetn? YES waht % of SCLC and NSCLC? 14% SCLC (more active, but more responsive, but not durable) Usualy treatments for SCLC (more active, resonsive to traditional) cisplatin, etoposide, irino...

Con of tertiary literature? lag time for updates; interpretation is dependent on author opinion; often incomplete Tertiary literature works that summarize, discuss, criticize, etc., the primary literature - guidelines, texts, ACCESS pharmacy Secondary literature index of abstract primary and teriary literature found in journals, provides a rapid method to search for primary literature - Medline, PubMed Evidence-based medicine? The conscientious explicity and judicio...

Bias in study design Systematic , nonrandom variation in study methodology and/or data collection process that results in an incorrect estimate of association between exposure and outcome affecting the true value of the result Ex of bias: - Selection bias: systematic selection of subjects that leads to an imbalance or an advantage in favor of one cohort over the other, leading to an error in the selection, or sampling of individuals for a clinical study -observational or information bias...

Define internal validity Is the study design legit to come to its conclusions? Define external validity can you generalize the study results outside teh study setting? What is the benefit of a case resport/case series (note, not a study) allows hypothesis generation (quinolong Qt) What is an observational study dsign? What is a drawback o fthis method? Does not involve investigator intervention, only observation; these studies investigate associations, not causes ...

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