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To facilitate decision-making and priority-setting related to Alberta's Pharmacogenomics (PGx) testing implementation strategy by identifying gene-drug pairs with the highest potential impact on prescribing practices in Alberta.

Annual drug dispensing data for Alberta from 2012 to 2016 for 57 medications with PGx-based prescribing guidelines were obtained, along with population estimates and demographics (age and ethnicity). Frequencies of actionable PGx genotypes by ethnicity were obtained from the Pharmacogenomics Knowledgebase (PharmGKB). Annual dispensing activity for each of the 57 medications was calculated for the full population (all ages) and children/youth (0-19 years). Alberta ethnicity data were cross-referenced with genetic frequency data for each of the main ethnic groups from PharmGKB to estimate the proportion of individuals with actionable genotypes. Actionable genotype proportions and drug dispensing frequencies were collectively used to identify high impact gene-drug pairs.

We found (ptation of our approach may facilitate the process of evidence-based PGx testing implementation in other jurisdictions.
Perioperative anxiety can negatively impact patient satisfaction and can complicate outpatient dermatologic procedures.

Evaluate adverse events associated with oral midazolam as a perioperative anxiolytic during dermatologic surgery and assess whether an enhanced monitoring approach is associated with an increased detection rate.

Five hundred cases (250 before and after change in monitoring) where patients were administered oral midazolam between July 2015 and May 2017 were retrospectively reviewed. The number of procedures, type of procedures, dose in milligrams, number of doses, major and minor adverse events, and vital signs were recorded.

The difference in number of treatment sites, types of procedures, and total dose administered was not significant. There were minor but significant differences in the mean change in blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, and Richmond Agitation and Sedation Scale score before and after the procedure but not oxygen saturation. These vital sign changes were not clinically significant. There were zero major adverse events in both groups. There were 2 patients who became transiently hypoxic.

Oral midazolam administration was not associated with major adverse events including in the more intensively monitored group. This supports its use as an anxiolytic for outpatient dermatologic procedures.
Oral midazolam administration was not associated with major adverse events including in the more intensively monitored group. This supports its use as an anxiolytic for outpatient dermatologic procedures.
Despite the recent advances in the treatment of vitiligo, results are still largely unsatisfactory and many patients show either weak or no response to treatment. Few clinical trials have investigated the use of trichloroacetic acid (TCA) to induce repigmentation in stable vitiligo.

To evaluate the efficacy and safety of TCA, in different concentrations, for the treatment of stable localized vitiligo.

The study included 100 patients with acral/nonacral stable vitiligo. Trichloroacetic acid was applied, as a monotherapy, to the vitiliginous patches at different concentrations according to the treated site every 2 weeks until complete repigmentation or for a maximum of 6 treatment sessions. Follow-up was done every month for 6 months to detect any recurrence.

Eyelid vitiligo showed the highest response to TCA treatment (excellent response in 80% of cases), followed by the face, trunk, and extremities. Lower response rates were noticed in the hands and feet vitiligo. Adverse effects were transient and insignificant in few patients.

Trichloroacetic acid seems to be a potential, cost-effective, well-tolerated therapeutic option for the treatment of vitiligo in the adults and pediatric populations.
Trichloroacetic acid seems to be a potential, cost-effective, well-tolerated therapeutic option for the treatment of vitiligo in the adults and pediatric populations.
Dermatologic surgery services are largely absent in Africa and in Afro-Caribbean counties. In the USA, studies of people of African ancestry have demonstrated health care gaps, but there are no data for Africa nor a Afro-Caribbean country. NE 52-QQ57 purchase Dermatology surgery has been largely absent from global health because there are few data to demonstrate the need. We sought to determine skin cancer tumor types, and local knowledge and perception in an Afro-Caribbean country.

We sought to determine whether there exist knowledge gaps and whether a dermatology surgery medical missions program would improve the health of Afro-Caribbean people.

First, we conducted a survey of knowledge and behaviors related to skin cancer. Second, we analyzed the number and types of tumors treated during a multi-year surgical dermatology project.

In the survey, 62% did not know what melanoma was. Eighty-one percent did not think skin cancer is preventable. Of 163 surgical specimens, 64 were malignancies with 91% related to UV exposure.

There is a need for a skin cancer treatment and education program in a country of mostly African-ancestry people.
There is a need for a skin cancer treatment and education program in a country of mostly African-ancestry people.For noncancerous conditions, such as hysterectomy, a minimally invasive approach to gynecologic surgery has well-documented advantages-including faster return to normal activities, decreased length of stay, and better quality of life-compared with an abdominal approach. Although the quality of data for robot-assisted surgery is still low to moderate, the use of robot-assisted surgery has rapidly increased since its approval, which highlights the need to develop effective and thoughtful strategies for its implementation. Reporting of adverse events currently is voluntary and nonstandardized; therefore, the true rate of complications is not known. Adoption of new surgical techniques should be driven by what is best for the patient and by evidence-based medicine, rather than external pressures. Although training in robot-assisted surgery increasingly is incorporated into obstetric and gynecologic residency programs, exposure to and training with robotic devices varies nationally. Obstetrician-gynecologists not previously trained in robot-assisted surgery can acquire the necessary skills through independent robot-assisted training programs and through courses offered and accredited by organizations such as the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons, the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists, the Society of Gynecologic Oncology, and the American Urogynecologic Society.
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