Treatment of Seizures Associated with Lennox-Gastaut and Dravet Syndromes: A Focus on Cannabidiol Oral Solution.

Cannabidiol oral solution for seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut and Dravet syndromes.

Development of an innovative partnership between a health-system department of pharmacy and external community pharmacies.

PURPOSE: Our organization implemented a health-system pharmacy/community pharmacy transitions of care (TOC) program, developing a scalable model to improve care transitions from the health system to the community setting for shared patients. SUMMARY: In this report, we describe our organization's experiences in taking a purposeful approach to building and pilot testing a partnership between our department of pharmacy and 14 community pharmacies within a larger statewide network to improve TOC across care settings. We have been successful in partnering with our electronic health record (EHR) vendor to enhance access capabilities to allow for documentation by community pharmacists (external to the organization) to be included in the patient record as a note. The goal of the partnership with community pharmacies is to elevate TOC for patients, identify and resolve medication therapy problems that may occur post discharge and lead to poor outcomes, and improve continuity of care across practice settings. CONCLUSION: Our department of pharmacy has led a successful initiative to promote collaboration with local external community pharmacies. This program has led to innovative advancements in EHR capabilities, promoting transparency in the documentation of pharmacy services and making this documentation visible to all care team members.

Healthcare Equity and Leadership: Implementation of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training for Pharmacy Residents.

BackgroundPharmacy training programs infrequently include formal training in the areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Hence, the purpose of this report is to offer perspectives gained from the delivery of a DEI curriculum within a pharmacy residency program aimed at expanding experiential learning focused on DEI and health equity. Program Implementation: Pharmacy residents at an academic medical center were invited to participate in a longitudinal DEI/equity seminar series that was thoughtfully and strategically developed by a team of residents and program leadership based on a six-step process. Residents were offered 9 individual seminars covering 4 major focus areas to facilitate enhanced awareness, learning, and vulnerability. Participants were invited to provide evaluations of each seminar and the overall series. Program Assessment: A total of 41 residents (100%) participated in at least one of the 9 seminars that were offered and approximately 50% completed the post-series survey. Resident-perceived benefit of each individual session was consistently favorable. Additionally, greater than 70% of participants responded favorably when asked about the impact of each session on their awareness, resources provided, and ability to apply the learnings to their practice. Conclusion: Our inaugural experience with the integration of a DEI seminar series into a pharmacy residency program suggests that there is a clear benefit to including DEI/health equity into pharmacy residency training. This data may suggest that adoption of DEI-focused experiential training may increase cultural awareness and the availability of resources to better equip pharmacy residents in applying concepts of DEI into their practice.