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Look out in the waiting room of your clinic. How many patients are waiting to be seen by a provider to be tested for a sexually transmitted infection (STI)?
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Wondering how to get prevention messages to adolescents? Public health officials are looking at new approaches such as text messaging on cell phones and Internet social networking sites to reach, educate, and engage teens regarding their sexual and reproductive health.
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What is included in your practice during a first prenatal visit? If syphilis screening is not on the list, be sure to add it. Following a systematic review of current evidence, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has just reaffirmed its 2004 recommendation that clinicians screen all pregnant women for syphilis infection.
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In some ways, recent technological changes and breakthroughs have laid the foundation for a decentralized hospital pharmacy.
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The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) of Bethesda, MD, has launched a pharmacy practice model initiative to open discussion about pharmacists' role in patient care in health care organizations.
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[Editor's note: This is the first part of a series of articles about the major changes underway in hospital pharmacy practice in the 21st century, including a cover story in this issue about how the model of hospital pharmacists participating in patient care teams and rounds is promoted by President Barack Obama as an "island of excellence." Other stories include a look at how one hospital prepared for a transition to a decentralized pharmacy and suggestions on how to prepare staff for the change. In the September issue of Drug Formulary Review, there will be additional stories about how a hospital with long-term planning for transition to clinical pharmacy care has become a model for the industry and how pharmacists may best be part of medical management therapy.]
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When health care institutions decide to decentralize their pharmacies or increase their pharmacists' involvement in patient care, not everyone will be happy with the change.
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Hospital pharmacists who would like to be driving force behind their organization's medication-use evaluation (MUE) program first should focus on selecting a topic that is both timely and relevant clinically, an expert advises.
