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Winter Haven Hospital in Winter Haven, FL, developed several protocols involving the pharmacy's involvement with anticoagulation therapy, including protocols specific to enoxaparin and heparin.
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Hospital pharmacists need to think like research investigators before recommending medication changes to hospital formularies or prescribing best practices. Each answer to a clinical question should be based on the strongest possible evidence, an expert says.
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Before hospital pharmacists make medication change recommendations to their hospitals' pharmacy and therapeutics (P&T) committees, they need to do a thorough evaluation of the literature.
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Winter Haven Hospital in Winter Haven, FL, targeted deep vein thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis as a goal, targeting this project to prevent readmissions related to DVT.
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Pharmacists are uniquely qualified to monitor direct thrombin-inhibitor (DTI) drug therapy and should consider working with physicians and hospital leaders to improve patient outcomes by developing such a program.
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Hospital pharmacies can enhance staff's satisfaction and improve their knowledge base by providing mentoring and professional development activities throughout their career progression.
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A North Carolina hospital pharmacy recently demonstrated the importance of having a good performance improvement (PI) strategy readily available when the pharmacy had to act quickly in February due to an IV heparin shortage.
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From the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) perspective, the saying "ignorance is bliss" does not apply when it comes to a patient's status.
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Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services web site. https://questions.cms.hhs.gov.
