OBJECTIVES To determine whether participation in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy (UIC-COP) Pathways to Pharmacy, an early urban pipeline program, motivated underrepresented minority students to pursue a prepharmacy curriculum in college and choose pharmacy as a career. METHODS Over a 4-year period, underrepresented minority high school students participated in a comp...

The purpose of this study was to assess the efficiency of hospital pharmacy services and to determine the environmental factors affecting pharmacy service efficiency. The technical efficiency of a hospital pharmacy was assessed to evaluate the hospital's ability to use pharmacy manpower in order to produce the maximum output of the pharmacy service. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was used as a...

This study investigated pharmacists' and pharmacy assistants' current weight management recommendations to consumers across Australian community pharmacies using a mailed questionnaire. Two questionnaires were developed, one for pharmacists and one for pharmacy assistants, each divided into five sections. One pharmacist and pharmacy assistant questionnaire were mailed in November 2011 to a syst...

People’s Republic of China has a long history of accounting and accounting reforms. This study focuses on “whether China should continue its IFRS-based domestic accounting standards or full convergence with the IFRS is more appropriate”? Both quantitative and qualitative approaches are applied to answer the research question of this work. Binary choice model has been used in the statistical ana...

Abstra t. Early risk predi tion involves three di erent aspe ts to be onsidered when an automati lassi er is implemented for this task: a) support for lassi ation with partial information read up to di erent time steps, b) support for dealing with unbalan ed data sets and ) a poli y to de ide when a do ument ould be lassi ed as belonging to the relevant lass with a reasonable on den e. In this ...

Most juridical systems contain the principle that an act is only unlawful if the agent conducting the act has a `guilty mind' (`mens rea'). Different law systems distinguish di erent modes of mens rea. For instance, American law distinguishes between `knowingly' performing a criminal act, `recklessness', `strict liability', etc. I will show we can formalize several of these categories. The form...

conclusions geographic accessibility of pharmacies at night and on holidays has to be addressed by provincial health policymakers. materials and methods the analysis was based on straight-line distance measurements. we considered 150, 300, 450, 600, and 750 m for pedestrians, and 1, 2, and 3 km for driving accessibility as the acceptable distances. we calculated the number and percentage of hou...

background: community pharmacies are considered as ideal settings to provide cardiovascular risk screening (crs). however, little is known about pharmacists’ views on providing such services in developing countries including iran. in the present study, we evaluated the pharmacists’ attitudes and perceived barriers to providing crs services. methods: in a cross-sectional study, a questionnaire i...

1Program in Pharmacogenetics, Department of Pharmacology, and 2Medical Scientist Program, School of Biomedical Science, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus; 3Department of Pharmacy Practice, University of Illinois at Chicago; 4Department of Pharmacy Practice and Center for Pharmacogenomics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville; and 5Dorothy Davis Heart an...