Monika Rao Mandava

• University of Illinois Chicago

Background Switching therapies is common for patients with psoriasis. Objective To quantify real-world switching rates and characteristics among patients initiating biologics over 24 months. Methods Patients aged ≥18 years with ≥2 confirmed psoriasis diagnoses who initiated a new biologic were identified from a US-payer claims database (Merative®...

Background: The Illinois Naloxone Standing Order allows community pharmacists to dispense naloxone; however, this policy initiative may be underutilized. Objective: Our study aims to characterize naloxone dispensing barriers, overall and by pharmacy type, make recommendations that can inform future policies to improve naloxone access, and evalua...

Background Eligibility assessment of patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) is a complex yet vital component of pre-transplant evaluation. Psychosocial assessment tools have been modeled after those completed in solid organ transplantation but no studies have validated these tools in this po...

Background: Academic detailing (AD) is a tailored, interactive educational outreach intervention that may improve patient outcomes. Insight into the design of AD interventions and the extent to which they are effective can help inform future AD-based programmes. The objective of this scoping review was to characterize opioid-focused AD interventio...

Introduction Social distancing requirements during COVID-19 pose a challenge to conducting traditional academic detailing, which typically involves in-person peer education visits to improve patient outcomes. The main alternative is to conduct virtual academic detailing delivered through web-based technology, but this approach is fraught with many...