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Patients who are discharged to the hospital with home care on Fridays are more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within a week than patients discharged on other days of the week, according to Elizabeth E. Hogue, Esq., a Washington DC-based attorney specializing in health care issues.
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When Donna Zazworsky, RN, MS, CCM, FAAN, vice president of community health and continuum care for Carondelet Health Network in Tucson, AZ, ran a community case management program for high-risk congestive heart failure patients, she was surprised to discover that many of the patients did not understand their diagnosis or their discharge instructions.
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One direct way to improve hospital medication safety is to have pharmacists involved in taking medication histories at admission and medication reconciliation from admission to discharge, one hospital has learned.
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Adjusting drug dosage for patients with chronic kidney disease is a core function of clinical pharmacy practice, but deciding on best practices in doing so can be complicated.
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Community hospitals can implement an effective and successful sepsis bundle program despite some initial obstacles, including obtaining buy-in from physicians, a Plano, TX, hospital has shown.
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Pharmacist involvement in medication reconciliation is so crucial to patient safety that one 450-plus-bed Wisconsin hospital invested considerable staff resources to make this a smooth process from admission through discharge.
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Pharmacy directors of small hospitals might think that offering medication therapy management (MTM) services is a little out of their reach. But at least one 25-bed hospital has proven that this is a short-sighted view.
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Pharmacy practice both in the community and in hospitals continues to change and evolve with some trends increasing as a result of the 2009 recession, a national pharmacy workforce survey finds.
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Hospital pharmacists have a variety of options now for the estimation of renal function for the purpose of drug dose adjustment, and it's sometimes difficult to decide the best approach.