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How Pharmacy Curricula Should Adjust to Abortion Legislature
Curricula should require comprehensive training for providing contraceptive care, helping students perform duties confidently and competently.
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Interventions for Heart Failure Should Span Care Continuum
Comprehensive in-hospital planning, postdischarge follow-up, ongoing support are key.
Employee Retention Begins With Recruitment
Health systems must address drivers of attrition, turnover.
Provide Education to Caregivers and Patients With Dementia
Strong interprofessional team helps ensure safe transitions and minimize adverse events, medication errors
Pharmacists Can Help Reduce COPD-Related Readmissions
Variety of interventions improves morbidity, mortality, associated costs for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder.
Deprescribing Helps Optimize Medication Use
Frequent reassessments of therapy regimens address polypharmacy, particularly for older patients.
GOLD Guidelines Provide Recommendations on Managing COPD
Pivotal resource helps health care professionals diagnose, manage, and prevent this group of lung diseases.
SGLT2 Inhibitors Are Shown to Reduce HF Death and Hospitalization
Empagliflozin also was associated with Improvement in quality of life and greater reduction in body weight.
Pharmacists Can Help Slow the Opioid Crisis
Patient education, naloxone training, and monitoring programs make a difference.
Integrating Pharmacists Into Care Teams Is Crucial
Tapping their specific skill sets and training can help serve patients more effectively, although challenges exist.
COVID-19 Impact Will Continue to Dominate in 2022
Trends to watch include increased spending on drugs and treatments, expansion of pharmacists' role, and ongoing interest in home infusion therapy.
Pharmacists Can Help Treat Post-Intensive Care Syndrome
Managing transitions of care is vital to discontinue use of unnecessary drugs and minimize medication errors.
Pain Management in the ICU Is Complex
Finding the right medication or drug combination for individual patients is critical.
How Nonopioids Can Be Used More In ICUs
A Multimodal Analgesic Approach Can Improve the Quality of Analgesia and Reduce Adverse Effects.
Manage Acute Pain in Those Using Opioids
Pharmacists play a vital role in managing regimens and ensuring proper compliance.
Develop a Collaborative Pain Management Strategy
A comprehensive approach requires that patients play an active role in determining medication and nonpharmacologic treatments.
Managing Cancer Pain