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    An Interprofessional Clinical Integrations Pilot Program: Integrating Third-Year PharmD Students into Family Medicine Clinics

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    Purpose: Pilot an interprofessional student placement model by entrusting Doctor of Pharmacy students to deliver value-added patient engagement within interprofessional clinical environments. Background: Beginning in January 2016, pharmacy education standards mandate students actively engage in early patient care experiences with interprofessional teams, thus necessitating new models by which students collaborate with providers in the provision of patient care. Intervention: Between May and August 2016, two family medicine clinics are incorporating 65 third-year pharmacy students into shared medical patient care visits during an interprofessional-provider introductory pharmacy practice experience (IP Provider IPPE) pilot program. Students engage with patients and clinicians by providing value-added interventions such as answering drug information questions, conducting medication history reviews, identifying medication-related problems, and providing medication counseling. Students attend clinic for two consecutive 8-hour shifts after completing a 2-hour pre-clinic orientation. Students return to clinic for two additional hours to orient and hand-off to the next oncoming student. Students’ interprofessional professionalism will be evaluated by the provider using a standardized rubric. Preliminary Results: Students’ experience and performance during the IP Provider IPPE pilot will be described during the presentation. Preliminary feedback from both providers and students indicate this model is mutually beneficial and satisfying for both students and providers. Students are describing frequent opportunities to engage in shared direct-patient care with assigned interprofessional preceptors. Relevance: This pilot demonstrates an effective strategy of expanding interprofessional student training by creating partnerships between practitioners and interprofessional students which are valued-added. We intend to use this strategy to expand clinical interprofessional training to all professions within our interprofessional education program. Future investigation: We will be investigating the reliability of our interprofessional professionalism rubric used to assess students during interprofessional clinical experiences. The value of the interprofessional student’s role within the practitioner team when engaging with patients will also be investigated. Learning objectives: 1) Describe a model for maximizing and sustaining student engagement within an interprofessional clinical practice site 2) Identify opportunities to align roles and responsibilities of interprofessional students which may contribute value to patient care provided by other health profession

    Family History and Breast Cancer Hormone Receptor Status in a Spanish Cohort

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    Breast cancer is a heterogenous disease that impacts racial/ethnic groups differently. Differences in genetic composition, lifestyles, reproductive factors, or environmental exposures may contribute to the differential presentation of breast cancer among Hispanic women.A population-based study was conducted in the city of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. A total of 645 women diagnosed with operable invasive breast cancer between 1992 and 2005 participated in the study. Data on demographics, breast cancer risk factors, and clinico-pathological characteristics of the tumors were collected. Hormone receptor negative tumors were compared with hormone receptor postive tumors on their clinico-pathological characteristics as well as risk factor profiles.Among the 645 breast cancer patients, 78% were estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) or progesterone receptor-positive (PR+), and 22% were ER−&PR−. Women with a family history of breast cancer were more likely to have ER−&PR− tumors than women without a family history (Odds ratio, 1.43; 95% confidence interval, 0.91–2.26). This association was limited to cancers diagnosed before age 50 (Odds ratio, 2.79; 95% confidence interval, 1.34–5.81).An increased proportion of ER−&PR− breast cancer was observed among younger Spanish women with a family history of the disease

    Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) RNA loads in peripheral blood correlates with disease severity in mice

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    <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) infection is usually restricted to the respiratory epithelium. Few studies have documented the presence of RSV in the systemic circulation, however there is no consistent information whether virus detection in the blood correlates with disease severity.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Balb/c mice were inoculated with live RSV, heat-inactivated RSV or medium. A subset of RSV-infected mice was treated with anti-RSV antibody 72 h post-inoculation. RSV RNA loads were measured by PCR in peripheral blood from day 1-21 post-inoculation and were correlated with upper and lower respiratory tract viral loads, the systemic cytokine response, lung inflammation and pulmonary function. Immunohistochemical staining was used to define the localization of RSV antigens in the respiratory tract and peripheral blood.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>RSV RNA loads were detected in peripheral blood from day 1 to 14 post-inoculation, peaked on day 5 and significantly correlated with nasal and lung RSV loads, airway obstruction, and blood CCL2 and CXCL1 expression. Treatment with anti-RSV antibody reduced blood RSV RNA loads and improved airway obstruction. Immunostaining identified RSV antigens in alveolar macrophages and peripheral blood monocytes.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>RSV RNA was detected in peripheral blood upon infection with live RSV, followed a time-course parallel to viral loads assessed in the respiratory tract and was significantly correlated with RSV-induced airway disease.</p

    A search for the decay modes B+/- to h+/- tau l

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    We present a search for the lepton flavor violating decay modes B+/- to h+/- tau l (h= K,pi; l= e,mu) using the BaBar data sample, which corresponds to 472 million BBbar pairs. The search uses events where one B meson is fully reconstructed in one of several hadronic final states. Using the momenta of the reconstructed B, h, and l candidates, we are able to fully determine the tau four-momentum. The resulting tau candidate mass is our main discriminant against combinatorial background. We see no evidence for B+/- to h+/- tau l decays and set a 90% confidence level upper limit on each branching fraction at the level of a few times 10^-5.Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.

    Search for the decay modes D^0 → e^+e^-, D^0 → μ^+μ^-, and D^0 → e^±μ∓

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    We present searches for the rare decay modes D^0→e^+e^-, D^0→μ^+μ^-, and D^0→e^±μ^∓ in continuum e^+e^-→cc events recorded by the BABAR detector in a data sample that corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 468  fb^(-1). These decays are highly Glashow–Iliopoulos–Maiani suppressed but may be enhanced in several extensions of the standard model. Our observed event yields are consistent with the expected backgrounds. An excess is seen in the D^0→μ^+μ^- channel, although the observed yield is consistent with an upward background fluctuation at the 5% level. Using the Feldman–Cousins method, we set the following 90% confidence level intervals on the branching fractions: B(D^0→e^+e^-)<1.7×10^(-7), B(D^0→μ^+μ^-) within [0.6,8.1]×10^(-7), and B(D^0→e^±μ^∓)<3.3×10^(-7)

    Evidence for an excess of B -> D(*) Tau Nu decays

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    Based on the full BaBar data sample, we report improved measurements of the ratios R(D(*)) = B(B -> D(*) Tau Nu)/B(B -> D(*) l Nu), where l is either e or mu. These ratios are sensitive to new physics contributions in the form of a charged Higgs boson. We measure R(D) = 0.440 +- 0.058 +- 0.042 and R(D*) = 0.332 +- 0.024 +- 0.018, which exceed the Standard Model expectations by 2.0 sigma and 2.7 sigma, respectively. Taken together, our results disagree with these expectations at the 3.4 sigma level. This excess cannot be explained by a charged Higgs boson in the type II two-Higgs-doublet model. We also report the observation of the decay B -> D Tau Nu, with a significance of 6.8 sigma.Comment: Expanded section on systematics, text corrections, improved the format of Figure 2 and included the effect of the change of the Tau polarization due to the charged Higg
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