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An Illinois hospital has shown that it can save considerable money and improve safety and quality outcomes by having pharmacists cover its emergency department (ED).
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Five or 10 years ago, few pharmacists would have been able to gain experience as an emergency department pharmacist, even if they had thought about that field as a specialty. But times are changing.
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The key to the new health care reform bill is understanding how it attempts to reform the way health care is delivered, pharmacist experts say.
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Mercy Health Center of Oklahoma City, OK, uses this pharmacy fall prevention policy as part of its successful falls prevention program. The policy is reprinted with permission from Burl Beasley, RPh, MPH, medication safety coordinator for the health center.
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As increasing numbers of hospitals add bariatric surgery to their services, it's an opportunity for hospital pharmacists to become point people in developing patient education processes and materials.
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Zinc and vitamin C for pressure ulcers?; Dutasteride reduces prostate cancer risk; New short-course topical treatment for actinic keratoses; After bariatric surgery: The role of exercise; What aspect of HTN produces toxicity?; Depression and sleep disturbance
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An open-label, randomized, controlled trial of early vs. delayed initiation of HAART was conducted in 642 patients with active TB and HIV infection in Durban, South Africa.
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A prospective, observational study of patients 18 years of age and older treated with goal-directed therapy of sepsis in the ED was conducted at a large county hospital in North Carolina.
