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Hospitalized elderly patients too often have falls, delirium, and other health issues that are caused by medications that should not have been prescribed to them, experts and research suggest.
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Hospital pharmacists, physicians, and others hopefully soon will have new hypertension and cholesterol guidelines available to inform hospital formulary and clinical practice decisions.
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New research suggests that hospitals and clinical pharmacists might improve safety if they change policies regarding the use of extended-duration enoxaparin thromboprophylaxis in acutely ill patients.
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Pharmacy leaders who have trained to learn microsystem design will first select an area, such as medication safety, that needs to be improved.
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Hospital pharmacies can improve their own systems and promote pharmacists for hospital system leadership positions by using a microsystem design process to improve their care delivery.
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Some very common and some seemingly innocuous medications can have a very deleterious impact on older patients.
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Calling patients after hospital discharge is a good quality improvement and patient satisfaction strategy, but it is often difficult to implement because of resource restraints.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on April 13 released the 2009 National Healthcare Quality Report and the National Healthcare Disparities Report, which are used by a variety of health care stakeholders to evaluate quality and access to care.