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Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
  • 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 0.50 ANCC
  • 0.50 General CE – Attendance
  • 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Successfully implementing a Bayesian area under the curve over 24 hours:minimum inhibitory concentration (AUC:MIC) calculator integrated into the electronic health record (EHR) for therapeutic monitoring of vancomycin at a large, 12-hospital health system requires some heavy lifing. An initial, unsuccessful trial of a homegrown first-order equation calculator led us to an EHR-integrated Bayesian platform.
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
  • 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 0.50 ANCC
  • 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
  • 0.50 General CE – Attendance
  • 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
During fiscal year 2022, only about 19% of patients with serious illness who died received palliative care at the University of Missouri Health Care. In October 2022, executive leadership launched the Serious Illness and Advanced Disease project to connect seriously ill patients with palliative care earlier in their disease process. The project began as a pilot for patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; by February 2023, the percentage of such patients that received palliative care had increased from 49% to 74%. 
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
  • 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 0.50 ANCC
  • 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
  • 0.50 General CE – Attendance
  • 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Diabetes medications account for a large proportion of medication spend. Pharmacist-driven projects can offer opportunities to reduce costs and maximize clinical benefit. Penn State Health’s ambulatory quality pharmacists focused on the therapeutic duplication of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists and dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor medications. Learn about the drugs’ mechanisms of action and potential root causes of therapeutic duplication and how our targeted initiative enabled us to remove suboptimal therapy and often recommend alternatives for maximum clinical benefit.
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
  • 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 0.50 ANCC
  • 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
  • 0.50 General CE – Attendance
  • 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Clinical pharmacists play an important role in adding value in the inpatient setting. However, most productivity metrics for pharmacist staffing models are based on drug distribution metrics. SSM Health aims to capture metrics for the clinical value of the pharmacist. Pharmacy leaders worked to standardize the pharmacy practice model, which included using a rule-based clinical monitoring dashboard within the electronic medical record (EMR). The group also standardized documentation to maximize workflow efficiency.
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
  • 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 0.50 ANCC
  • 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
  • 0.50 General CE – Attendance
  • 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Patient populations at elevated risk of readmission do not always have the correct medications at time of discharge to continue their therapies, which can result in negative patient outcomes and lost revenue opportunities. Meds-to-beds programs deliver discharge medications to the patient’s bedside, eliminating a trip to a pharmacy and ensuring that the patient has the medications needed for a successful care transition after discharge. The meds-to-beds program has led to improvements in medical center readmission rates and patient experience. 
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
  • 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 0.50 ANCC
  • 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
  • 0.50 General CE – Attendance
  • 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
In 2020, Memorial Hermann (MH) Katy and MH Cypress began an initiative to address patients admitted for sickle cell pain crisis due to disease process and pain management challenges. They adapted best practices developed at MH Texas Medical Center: no intravenous (IV) diphenhydramine or promethazine, use of patient-controlled analgesia instead of IV narcotics, and shorter time to medication, both in the emergency department and inpatient units. It became evident that the challenges of implementing these best practices were common among MH community hospitals.
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
  • 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 0.50 ANCC
  • 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
  • 0.50 General CE – Attendance
  • 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
Delirium affects a large percentage of hospitalized patients and leads to higher length of stay (LOS), direct costs and mortality, as well as poor patient outcomes. Our organization implemented a set of national guidelines for the treatment and prevention of delirium. Previously, uptake and compliance was suboptimal, without any improvement in metrics. A quality improvement project was initiated to introduce an advanced practice nurse (APRN) consultation for hospitalized patients with delirium.
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
  • 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 0.50 ANCC
  • 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
  • 0.50 General CE – Attendance
  • 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
According to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, at least 300,000 hip fractures occur in the United States annually. The majority are in patients over 65 years of age.1 Developing delirium after hip fracture has shown to lead to poorer outcomes and increased mortality risk in elderly patients. It is not always feasible for a hospital to have a pain block team or have anesthesia on call 24/7 to provide pain blocks in the emergency department (ED).
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
  • 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 0.50 ANCC
  • 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
  • 0.50 General CE – Attendance
  • 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a surge in demand for blood transfusions, which led to increased hospitalizations and more critically ill patients. At the same time, the Red Cross reported a 25% decrease in the number of blood donors compared to the prepandemic level. These factors emphasized the importance of optimizing blood utilization practices to reduce waste and improve patient outcomes. Loyola University Medical Center developed an analytics dashboard that uses the electronic medical record and data from the Vizient Clinical Data Base to analyze blood utilization practices.
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 0.50 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
  • 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 0.50 ANCC
  • 0.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
  • 0.50 General CE – Attendance
  • 0.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
$0.00
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing preventable health disparities and highlighted the urgent need to eliminate them. Addressing disparities requires a multifaceted, data-driven approach that takes demographics into account. This project used the electronic health record (EHR) and data visualization tools to identify existing health disparities among demographic groups at Loyola Medicine and measure results of the hospital-level initiatives developed based on those findings. Our project led to several major organizationwide improvement initiatives.

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