Archive for September, 2011

ASHP Driving National Effort to Manage Drug Shortages Crisis

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]
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Sep 23, 2011
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Enacting Collaborative Drug Therapy Management Legislation

Bumps along the Road, Success at the End

GLORIA SACHDEV, PHARM.D., calls her seven-month odyssey to win passage of an Indiana state law that expands collaborative drug therapy ... [read more]
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Sep 23, 2011
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24/7 Care via Remote Order Entry

LSU Innovates to Expedite Medication Processing

THE JOINT COMMISSION AND ASHP strongly recommend that, when feasible, hospitals provide 24-hour pharmacy review of medication orders. But for the ... [read more]
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Sep 23, 2011
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Pharmacists Answer Call to Serve in Wake of Storms

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]
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Sep 23, 2011
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Cleveland Clinic Hospitals Lead Way on Quality-of-Care Measures

STARTING IN OCTOBER 2012, Medicare will reimburse hospitals based on quality-of-care measures, including how closely hospitals follow best clinical ... [read more]
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Sep 23, 2011
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Creating an Anticoagulation Service in a Community Pharmacy

THE MEDICAL LITERATURE is filled with examples of how anticoagulation services managed by pharmacists help reduce the number of ... [read more]
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Sep 23, 2011
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From the CEO

Upcoming ASHP Events Focus on Innovation in Pharmacy Practice
  
Dear Colleagues, This past year was like no other. The challenges that our country has and continues to face are […] ... [read more]
March 17, 2021

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