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As hospitals nationwide seek ways to reduce their readmission rates and improve quality, they are having to make improvements with fewer resources.
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When the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Charleston, SC, prepared to switch to computerized provider order entry (CPOE), one of the first steps for the staff focused on discharge planning was to revise the discharge order set.
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A new study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine highlights the problem of hospital patients being unaware of their own medications.
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Hospitals that serve populations that traditionally have difficulty affording primary care now are seeing their indigent populations swell as the recession has hit those with hard luck even harder.
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When hospitals expand to outpatient clinics that focus on chronic disease management, it is an ideal opportunity for pharmacists to fulfill a major role.
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When a chief goal is to build the pharmacy department's value within a health care system, one of the primary roles pharmacy directors play is that of communicator.
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Pharmacies in larger health care systems can broaden their own mission and save the health system money by taking on roles that typically are handled through outside vendor contracts.
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It's been over a decade since experts were invited to write specialty guidelines regarding preventing medication errors with antineoplastic agents. And now the guidelines are dated, and experts have been working on an update that includes the impact of new technology.
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When hospital pharmacists push for increased pharmacist involvement in clinical care, the goal often is to improve the quality of care and cut rehospitalizations and related costs.
