Drug Formulary Review Archives – July 1, 2007
July 1, 2007
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Hospitals moving to collaborative drug therapy management
Some 50% of hospitals responding to a survey have some pharmacists engaged in collaborative drug therapy management (CDTM). -
ED interventions can save lives and dollars
The most commonly documented interventions made by pharmacists caring for emergency department patients included provision of drug information, dosage adjustment recommendations, responses to questions from nursing staff, formulary interchanges, and suggestions on initiating drug therapy, researchers found. -
Drug-related hospitalizations: A preventable problem?
Studies in the U.S. estimate that adverse drug events account for up to 28% of emergency department visits and 25% of ambulatory care encounters and that up to 70% of these visits are preventable. -
Telepharmacy helps to improve pharmacy services
A 25-bed critical access hospital that wanted to improve pharmacy services through use of automated dispensing machines and remote pharmacist review of orders found telepharmacy could help it achieve its objectives, a researcher found. -
News Briefs: Web site gives system pharmacy best practices
A new web site developed by the Health Systems Pharmacy Executive Alliance identifies best practices for improving health system pharmacy operations and recommendations for adopting the practices. -
New FDA Approvals
FDA recently announced these approvals: Schwartz Bioscience's Neupro (rotigotine transdermal system), a skin patch designed to treat symptoms of early Parkinson's disease. -
Drug Criteria & Outcomes: Suffer the children: Preventing medication errors in pediatric patients
Pediatric patients can be particularly vulnerable to medication errors, but tragedies like that described on a recent national news program can be averted if the factors that lead to such errors are understood and addressed by pharmacists and their clinical partners. -
Drug Criteria & Outcomes: Drugs that harm bugs and the liver?
Antibiotics are one of the most abundantly prescribed medications in both the outpatient and inpatient settings. From treating a simple infection to a life-threatening one, antibiotics decrease morbidity and mortality in every patient population.