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

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

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

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

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

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