Drug Formulary Review Archives – August 1, 2009
August 1, 2009
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Including pharmacists in hospital rounds receives high endorsement
[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.] -
Here's how one hospital prepared for decentralized pharmacy change
In some ways, recent technological changes and breakthroughs have laid the foundation for a decentralized hospital pharmacy. -
Help staff transition when decentralizing pharmacy
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. -
ASHP's new pharmacy practice model initiative anticipates future
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. -
When developing a medication-use program, follow these tips
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. -
LactMed database offered free to pharmacists, physicians, and others
If a peer-reviewed study is published with outcomes involving lactating women and the impact of medications on their infants, then it is included in the LactMed database, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine.