Transitioning Pharmacogenomics into the Clinical Setting: Training Future Pharmacists

Transitioning Pharmacogenomics into the Clinical Setting: Training Future Pharmacists

Pharmacogenomics, once hailed as a futuristic approach to pharmacotherapy, has transitioned to clinical implementation. Although logistic and economic limitations to clinical pharmacogenomics are being superseded by external measures such as preemptive genotyping, implementation by clinicians has met resistance, partly due to a lack of education. Pharmacists, with extensive training in pharmaco...

Bringing clinical pharmacogenomics information to pharmacists: A qualitative study of information needs and resource requirements

INTRODUCTION As key experts in supporting medication-decision making, pharmacists are well-positioned to support the incorporation of pharmacogenomics into clinical care. However, there has been little study to date of pharmacists' information needs regarding pharmacogenomics. Understanding those needs is critical to design information resources that help pharmacists effectively apply pharmacog...

Psychiatric Pharmacogenomics: How to Integrate into Clinical Practice.

Pharmacogenomic testing can be integrated into modern mental health practices to help select psychotropic drugs for individuals who have failed first-line evidence-based treatments. This can be done by the process of "equipoise"-namely, balancing the weight of all available evidence. That evidence now includes not only diagnosis-specific treatment guidelines and "personalized" patient informati...

Design and evaluation of a pharmacogenomics information resource for pharmacists

Objective To develop and evaluate a pharmacogenomics information resource for pharmacists. Materials and Methods We built a pharmacogenomics information resource presenting Food and Drug Administration (FDA) drug product labelling information, refined it based on feedback from pharmacists, and conducted a comparative usability evaluation, measuring task completion time, task correctness and p...

Clinical training--back to the future.