Overcoming trainee inertia

Automated glycemic pattern analysis: overcoming diabetes clinical inertia.

The OneTouch® Verio™ IQ Meter with PatternAlert™ Technology has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as the first self-glucose monitor that can automatically determine glycemic patterns [high and low pre-meal blood glucose (BG)] for health care providers (HCPs) and patients. In this issue of Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, Katz and coauthors demonstrate that this d...

Overcoming clinical inertia in the management of hypertension.

Overcoming inertia: achieving more-rapid transformation of pharmacy practice.

I’m very humbled and honored to have been selected to give this year’s John W. Webb Lecture. I would like to thank the ASHP Section of Pharmacy Practice Managers and Bill Gouveia and Dean Jack Reynolds of the School of Pharmacy at the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University for this honor. I’d also like to acknowledge the many individuals with whom I have had the pleasure to...

SRNT Trainee Network Spotlight: Trainee Network Advisory Board.

Dr Kurti completed her PhD in psychology at the University of Florida, Gainesville, in 2014. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vermont. Dr Kurti’s recent accomplishments in tobacco science include publishing the first laboratory-based assessment of a combined exercise plus contingency management approach to reducing cigarette smoking. Dr Kurti became interested in toba...

Nonadherence, clinical inertia, or therapeutic inertia?

in which certain therapies have adequate, even overwhelming if not unequivocal, evidence of effectiveness.5 Clinical inertia occurs, for example, when the patient fails to attain a biomarker goal (e.g., blood pressure less than 140/90 millimeters of mercury [mm Hg]) due at least in part to failure to intensify pharmacotherapy through upward dosing and/or addition of drugs to the therapeutic reg...