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Hospital pharmacies sometimes accept new technology without having a say over its design and ability to fit into the hospital's workflow. Instead, staff will develop work-arounds and find cumbersome ways to make the new systems work.
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All hospitals need to form some sort of antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP), and lack of funding should not be a deterrent, experts say.
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Hospital pharmacies need to continually weigh the scales between risks of medication errors and costs of more vigilant medication distribution monitoring.
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Hospital pharmacies can stretch staffing hours and budgets with the use of highly motivated student interns and residents. But these extra hands and minds are best utilized if the pharmacy director develops a well-thought-out student education program.
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The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) jointly surveyed health care systems about their use of pharmacoeconomics data in drug formulary decisions and other activities.
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In June 2010, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) issued a national alert for serious medication errors (NAN).
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Autochthonous transmission of dengue virus infection has been detected in Florida.
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In this before-and-after study of more than 275,000 patients admitted to a Swedish hospital before-and-after implementation of a medical emergency team, in-hospital cardiac arrests decreased and overall in-hospital mortality fell by 10% in the two years following the team's implementation.
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There is no difference in rates of treatment failure, death, or readmission for COPD between patients treated with oral or intravenous steroids for exacerbation of COPD, but the IV route may be associated with increased cost and length of stay.
