Kevin A Clauson

..Social media may offer a means to engage students, facilitate collaborative learning, and tailor educational delivery for diverse learning styles...

..To assess the impact of an audience response system (ARS) on student engagement at a multi-campus college of pharmacy...

..Pharmacy-focused journals that are available in open-access (OA), freely accessible, hybrid, or traditional formats were identified...

..Clinical decision support tools (CDSTs) on personal digital assistants (PDAs) and online databases assist healthcare practitioners who make decisions about dietary supplements...

..Core and supplemental drug information databases available for use with personal digital assistants (PDAs) were evaluated...

..With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, user-edited online resources such as Wikipedia are increasingly tapped for information. However, there is little research on the quality of health information found in Wikipedia...

..The aim of our study was to investigate the perceptions of pharmaceutical sales representatives by nurse prescribers...

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..The characteristics of pharmacist blogs were examined...

..05). Barriers had a negative influence (p = 0.01). The model employed here can help explain pharmacist adoption and integration of e-prescribing...

..To describe benefits and adverse effects associated with the consumption of energy drinks...

..The dietary supplement willow bark, also known simply as willow, contains salicylates that may present a safety risk to people. Current regulations do not require willow bark to include any cautions on its label...

..To assess the content of dietary supplement databases used for clinical decision support...

..To evaluate personal digital assistant (PDA) drug information databases used to support clinical decision-making, and to compare the performance of PDA databases with their online versions...

..They may also help address the disparity in drug information and pharmacology education between nurses...

..The purpose of this study was to evaluate clinical decision support tools for drug information by systematically comparing the most commonly used online drug information databases...

..However, there is a dearth of information on the abilities of CDSTs, such as drug information databases. This study evaluated online drug information databases when answering infectious disease-specific queries...

..Overall, participants believed DTCA plays a useful role in health self-management; however, a considerable percentage thought that the cost outweighs the benefits...

..To examine community pharmacists' use of language-access services (LASs) in the United States...

..Practitioners should monitor identified populations likely to consume these loosely regulated beverages...

..4% for GERD and 40% for SAD, reported that a change in therapy occurred as a direct result of these discussions. Televised DTCA for these two drug classes can have a significant impact on patient-initiated prescription requests...

..To review the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Hispanics in the US and highlight the modalities most likely to be unfamiliar to healthcare practitioners...

..g. smartphones), can provide healthcare providers with convenient access to paediatric medicines information at point of care. However, to date no systematic evaluation of the content in these CDSTs has been conducted...

..The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinically relevant safety information included on labeling in a nationally representative sample of SJW products from the USA...

..The development of a residency interviewing preparatory seminar (RIPS) is described...

..While money spent on herbs and herbal products was generally minimal, study participants had a disconcerting level of confidence in the safety and efficacy of herbal products...

..The rapid emergence and exploding usage of social media (also called Web 2.0) present pharmacists with new professional, ethical and time management challenges...

..An evaluation of these products demonstrates a general lack of efficacy and safety data. Thus, in the ten years since the passage of DSHEA, the dietary supplement industry remains controversial and a concern for consumer safety...

..Safety concerns regarding the use of dietary supplements are further exacerbated by a suboptimal level of patient disclosure and provider inquiry...