Treatment Guidelines & Articles

Use the following links to access treatment guidelines for several disease states.  It is a good idea to review the pertinent guidelines with your student before they start a new pharmaceutical care service involving that disease state.  For example, before your student starts a cholesterol screening service, you would want to review the ATP III treatment guidelines.  However, feel free to review as many guidelines as you can with your student because this serves as a great review for the student. 

Asthma Treatment Guidelines:  http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/asthma/asthgdln.htm

JNC VII (hypertension):  www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/hypertension/jnc7card.htm

ATP III (dyslipidemia):  http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/cholesterol/atp3xsum.pdf

Diabetes guidelines:  http://www.guideline.gov/summary/summary.aspx?doc_id=3172&nbr=2398&string=diabetes  or http://www.guideline.gov/summary/summary.aspx?doc_id=3414&nbr=2640&string=diabetes

Atrial Fibrillation Guidelines: http://www.acc.org/qualityandscience/clinical/guidelines/atrial_fib/pdfs/AF_Full_Text.pdf

Medication Therapy Management training:   Excellent MTM review article at http://www.accp.com/position/mtms.pdf includes sample fee schedules for different types of MTM services.  See http://www.nacdsfoundation.org/user-assets/Documents/PDF/MTM%20Model%20final.pdf for an article detailing what MTM is plus sample forms to be used in MTM services and http://www.nacdsfoundation.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=1044 for a CD-ROM used for training pharmacists.

CDC:  www.cdc.gov

American Diabetes Association:  www.diabetes.org

National Institutes of Health:  www.nih.gob

Drug Monographs:  www.rxlist.com

Grapefruit Juice Interactions:  www.powernetdesign.com/grapefruit

PubMed:  www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Pubmed

Foreign Language Translation:  www.altavista.com

The People's Pharmacy:  http://www.peoplespharmacy.org/index.asp