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Some studies suggest that drug screens rarely influence clinical interventions or disposition, but other authors support the use of routine drug screening in the ED. In addition to this dispute, the test itself is associated with problems that restrict its ability to provide real-time, clinically-relevant information and is often misunderstood by the ordering physician.
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Treatment of severe hypertension in today's busy emergency departments can be confusing and a large source of medical liability.
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Bendamustine hydrochloride for injection (Treanda®) was approved on March 20, 2008, for the treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
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Immunization awareness plays an important role in patient care; in fact, most adults are unaware that immunizations are not just for kids anymore. Therefore, it is the responsibility of health care providers to be knowledgeable about pertinent vaccines for their patient population.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues its transformation of how it pays ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) and hospitals for outpatient services, but each iteration of the four-year project nonetheless manages to raise a fresh round of objections.
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Hospital pharmacies often encounter obstacles in the budgeting process, particularly when it's difficult to obtain the necessary data or when a health care organization is having a difficult year financially.
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Ask any pharmacy director about presenting budgets to a hospital's top managers, and you'll hear that it wasn't easy, especially when the budget projects a major increase in costs.
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When working on the pharmacy department's budget, it's important to have the most accurate data available both within the health care organization and outside of it. It's also important to convince physicians of changing prescribing habits that might unnecessarily increase the pharmacy department's costs without adding to any improvements in patient care.
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When Shore Memorial Hospital of Somers Point, NJ, completed its three-year transition to adopting new electronic technologies, including a bar-code point-of-care system, there were numerous positive outcomes.
