AS PHARMACY PRACTICE EVOLVES from a profession that primarily supervises medication distribution to one that provides services such as medication therapy management and disease prevention, one of the main questions that remains unanswered is, “how long will this transformation take?” Although no one can predict how fast it will happen or what path it will take, [...]
IN AN ERA OF ERODING 401(k) PLANS and disappearing pensions, pharmacists, like other professionals, are finding the prospect of retirement daunting. Those who once thought they would be able to retire at 60 are delaying their plans, opting to phase out of the workforce through part-time or consulting work, or planning to work full-time as long as [...]
THE DAYS AND WEEKS AFTER A KIDNEY TRANSPLANT are a critical time for patients. Many are already on complex medication regimens at the time of their procedure, yet will take even more agents afterward to prevent organ rejection and infection. When data revealed that 29 percent of kidney transplant patients at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) [...]
THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT OF 2010 provides a plethora of opportunities for pharmacists to optimize their patient-care services. As health systems and physicians, groups create accountable care organizations (Acos) to reach the performance measures laid out in the medicare Shared Savings Program, they are turning to pharmacists to fine-tune the management of chronic diseases, reduce hospital readmissions, and improve [...]
OVER THE YEARS, ASHP’s National Survey of Health-System Pharmacy Practice has evolved into a powerful tool to track pharmacy developments. The results of the survey, which monitors both micro- and macrotrends, help highlight changes that can feel almost glacial in pace but that are critical to the profession’s future. “Although we publish the overarching results of the survey in the American Journal of Health- System Pharmacy (AJHP) [...]
AS I WRITE THIS, the world is witnessing amazing changes in the Middle East. Citizens from Tunisia to Egypt–and now in Libya–are rising up, demanding an end to totalitarian regimes that have long suppressed their human rights. What has struck me as I’ve watched the news reports is just how organic the changes have been, how they started with ordinary citizens, [...]
WHILE HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS FACE a plethora of practice challenges every day, those challenges do not often make the national news. Yet the current struggle with drug shortages has started to do just that. Scores of articles have been published in major newspapers and websites about this crisis, most of them quoting ASHP, including in The Wall Street Journal, USA [...]
Full-text of articles in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy (AJHP) are now available via subscription on the Amazon Kindle e-reader. AJHP publishes peer-reviewed scientific papers on contemporary drug therapy and pharmacy practice innovations in hospitals and health systems. The journal joins several other prestigious publications on the Kindle, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Pediatrics, and The British Medical Journal. AJHP articles [...]
Ever wish for a place where you could get ideas on how to handle an issue in your practice, share your thoughts on what’s happening in the profession, or network with practitioners from around the country? All of those features and more are available in a new, private, online community, ASHP Connect, which will debut in April. ASHP Connect [...]
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