Failure clinical

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Discuss how the eight P s of marketing may be similar/different from the scenario used in this chapter and a pharmacist implementing a heart failure clinic. 

Cynthia approaches the cardiologists in her clinic with an idea that she could start a heart failure clinic to provide additional education and monitoring for these patients. While the physicians would oversee the clinic, she could conduct monthly educational seminars about heart failure for patients, order and assess laboratory tests, and order medications and adjust dosages under physician-approved protocols. 

Given the HMO s patient load, Cynthia figures that she would have to spend 50 percent of her time with the heart failure clinic. Because the pharmacy is always busy, the HMO would have to hire an additional part-time pharmacist to take care of her dispensing duties. 

Table 27-3. Characteristics of HMO Heart Failure Patients Prior to the Start of the Heart Failure Clinic...

Cynthia forges ahead and starts her heart failure clinic. She successfully enrolls 250 patients in her service over the course of 1 year. At the end of the year, she conducts her cost-benefit analysis and asks the HMO for the same information that she collected at baseline (see Table 27-4). 

Table 27-5. Changes in Clinical Outcomes of Heart Failure Clinic Patients After 1 Year...

Once a successful value-added service has been developed, it becomes easier to develop a new service in the future. The skills necessary to evaluate the outcomes of a service can be leveraged to start a new service. Perhaps a similar service with a different disease state would be a good next step. Be careful when thinking of starting new projects that are not directly similar to the one you have implemented. For instance, the skills gained with the heart failure clinic may not apply directly to starting a compounding specialty or wound care clinic. 

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HD is the most common method used to treat advanced and permanent kidney failure. Clinically, it is considered the default therapy that is utilized in the increasing numbers of patients unsuitable for other modalities of PD and kidney transplantation. Operationally, it involves connecting the patient to a hemodialyzer into which their blood flows. After filtration to remove the wastes and extra fluids, the cleansed blood is returned to the patient. It is stfll a complicated and inconvenient therapy requiring a coordinated effort from a healthcare team that includes the patient, nephrologist, dialysis nurse, dialysis technician, dietitian, and others. 

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Hepatitis A infection usually results in an acute, self-limited disease that rarely leads to fulminant hepatic failure. The clinical features of acute hepatitis A are summarized in Table 40-1. After an average incubation period of 28 days, with a range of 15 to 50 days, symptomatic individuals will experience an abrupt onset of anorexia, nausea, vomiting, malaise, fever, headache, and right upper quadrant abdominal pain. Patients with underlying liver disease such as chronic hepatitis C infection are more likely to develop fulminant hepatic failure. Clinical symptoms also vary with age. Children younger than 6 years old are usually asymptomatic or have a mild influenzalike illness without clinical jaundice. In conhast, more than 70% of infected adults and older children display the characteristic clinical syndrome of acute hepatitis with elevated hepatic transaminase levels and jaundice. ... 

Acute allergic interstitial nephritis is the underlying cause for up to 3% of all cases of acute renal failure. Clinical manifestations of AIN typically present about 14 days after initiation of therapy and include fever, maculopapular rash, eosinophilia, pyuria, hematuria, proteinuria, and oliguria. 

REVERSE (33) 2008 610 NYHA Ml, LVEF <40%, QRS >120 msec Double-blind, parallel At 12 months No significant difference in heart failure clinical composite response endpoint... 

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Intermediate care unit failure, clinically weaning success ... 

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