DURING HIS LONG CAREER AS A PHARMACIST, RICHARD CARVOTTA, R.PH., M.B.A., has never experienced anything quite like the prescription drug shortages ... [read more]
GLORIA SACHDEV, PHARM.D., calls her seven-month odyssey to win passage of an Indiana state law that expands collaborative drug therapy ... [read more]
THE JOINT COMMISSION AND ASHP strongly recommend that, when feasible, hospitals provide 24-hour pharmacy review of medication orders. But for the ... [read more]
NONE OF THE PATIENTS WORE SHOES. Yet they would have to cross rain-soaked hallways strewn with broken glass, shards of concrete, and twisted ... [read more]
STARTING IN OCTOBER 2012, Medicare will reimburse hospitals based on quality-of-care measures, including how closely hospitals follow best clinical ... [read more]
THE MEDICAL LITERATURE is filled with examples of how anticoagulation services managed by pharmacists help reduce the number of ... [read more]