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As hospital pharmacies grow and their volumes increase, it becomes essential to consider new technology that will enhance efficiency and improve safety.
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Barcode technology provides hospitals with efficiencies and the potential benefits of improved medication safety, but there can be problems with the technology due to workflow issues.
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Although hospital pharmacists and other staff have had some time to become accustomed to barcode technologies at many health care organizations, there continues to be a need to study how the process can be expanded and improved.
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A collaboration of pharmacists, physicians, psychologists, and other researchers have begun a study to see how hospital pharmacists, communicating with patients, community physicians, and pharmacies, might impact patient outcomes post-discharge.
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Of note, this publication is a review article and not original science. Because of its efficacy and convenience, DMPA has been used by millions of women in the United States and around the world.
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In this issue: Some women with DVT may stop warfarin after six months; Vytorin and cancer; preventing recurrent stroke; and FDA news.
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The American Heart Association reports that there are approximately 310,000 annual cases of out-of-hospital (OOH) cardiac arrest. In 20-38% of these persons, the initial rhythm is ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia (vfib/tach).
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In 2002, esteban et al reported the results of an ambitious study, enrolling a prospective cohort of consecutive adult patients in 361 ICUs in 20 countries who received mechanical ventilation for more than 12 hours during the month of March 1998.