Pharmacy Residency Projects - PGY-1, Royal Oak

A list of recently completed PGY-1 Residency Research Projects is outlined below:

• Impacting Patient Care with Improvement of Chemotherapy Education Materials
• Evaluation of Accuracy of Weight Estimation and Safety of Antithrombotic Dosing in the Emergency Center
• Evaluation of Basal, Bolus, and Correction Insulin in Non-Critically Ill Patients
• Evaluation of Clinical Outcomes with Monotherapy versus Combination Therapy in the Treatment of Clostridium difficile Infection
• Evaluation of a Decolonization Protocol in Cardiothoracic Surgery Patients
• A Pharmacy Directed Pain Management Initiative for Inpatients using Frequent As-Needed Opioid Pain Medications
• Prophylactic Antibiotic Use in Neurosurgical Patients with Ventriculostomy
• Evaluation of Total Parenteral Nutrition Infection Rates in SICU Patients
• An Evaluation of Patient Outcomes Associated with Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections after Implementation of a New Piperacillin-Tazobactam Dosing Strategy
• Evaluation of a Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia Management Protocol
• Haloperidol Safety and Treatment of Delirium in the Medical ICU
• Rituximab Tolerability when Given Before or After CHOP
• Evaluation of the use of a Warfarin Transition Tool from Inpatient to Outpatient
• Clinical Outcomes and Utilization of the Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome Protocol
• Clinical Outcomes and Safety of Colistimethate Therapy in Patients with Acinetobacter spp. Associated Infections
• Impact of the 4T's Scoring System and an IgG-specific ELISA on the Potential to Over-Diagnose HIT
• Tolerability of Carboplatin When Using Rounded Serum Creatinine Values
• Evaluation of Pharmacist Medication Order Review
• Intensive Insulin Therapy in Trauma Patients
• Evaluation of Pharmacist Medication Order Review
• Impact of JNC VII & ALLHAT on HCTZ Prescribing
• Evaluation of a Pharmacy Intervention Documentation Program
• Evaluation of the impact of ICU Sedation Guidelines
• Beta-blocked therapy in heart failure: Physician adherence to guidelines and readmission rates

Past Resident MUE's Presented at ASHP Midyear Meeting

• Evaluation of Dornase Alfa Use at an Academic, Community-Based Medical Center
• Evaluation of Inpatient Non-Formulary Tolvaptan Use in a Three-Hospital Health System
• Evaluation of Intravenous Acetylcysteine Use at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak
• Medication Use Evaluation of Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents
• Evaluation of Infliximab Utilization at an Academic, Acute-Care Facility
• Characterization of Parenteral Fentanyl Use in Adult Inpatients at a Tertiary Academic Medical Center