Rachel Lutz

There is greater need for comprehensive medication management (CMM) delivered by board-certified psychiatric pharmacists on the health care team.

Because there are similarities in the symptoms of bipolar disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, differentiating between the 2 psychiatric conditions can be challenging for clinicians.

Prescribing methods for a newer atrial fibrillation agent require more monitoring to improve patient safety in community hospitals.

Implementing interdisciplinary care reduces anesthetic exposures and related costs for pediatric patients with complex respiratory and gastrointestinal disorders.

Although children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder often experience decreased appetite and sleep disturbances during methylphenidate treatment, a study published in the Journal of Research in Pharmacy Practice indicates that those adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are mostly mild and not serious.

By educating nurses, counseling physicians, and providing feedback on inhalation technique, pharmacists can reduce issues related to salbutamol treatment for asthma and bronchitis.

Despite having adequate knowledge on cardiovascular risk factors, pharmacists and other health care professionals showed significant increases in systemic arterial hypertension and excessive weight gain across a 20-year study.

Pharmacists can positively impact patient outcomes in a variety of areas.

Pharmacists can help limit negative treatment outcomes among patients with HIV.

Pharmacist collaboration with physicians during a national shortage of intravenous trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole may have helped mitigate negative treatment outcomes among HIV-infected patients with Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia.

Improved care for HIV-infected patients within the Kaiser Permanente system has essentially reversed their previously reported increased heart attack risk.

Supplementation with alkaline potassium salts aids bone health and reduces osteoporosis risk.

Although retail pharmacists in California are permitted to sell nonprescription syringes under legislative efforts to prevent HIV transmission among injection drug users (IDUs), recent research uncovered that many pharmacies still limit syringe access.

Pharmacists play an important role in ensuring optimal patient outcomes within accountable care organizations.

Community pharmacists can identify and educate patients at high risk for acute kidney injury related to use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

Pharmacists' antibiotic dispensing practices are improved through multifaceted educational interventions.

Thoughts influence the mood swings of patients with bipolar disorder.

Most caregivers cannot make informed decisions about OTC painkillers based on information provided in the products' labels and inserts.

Half of health care professionals surveyed in a recent study were unaware of the role pharmacists play in nuclear medicine departments.

Although metformin is a proven first-line diabetes medication, many patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) are discouraged from taking the drug due to inappropriate FDA labeling.

Pharmacists with the shortest length of service and no specialties less likely to cooperate with physicians.

Pharmacists find monitoring medication adherence difficult due to time constraints and other barriers.

Study finds enhanced efforts needed to motivate staff to participate in health promotion activities.

Stimulant-treated adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder who switch to atypical antipsychotics show significantly greater drug augmentation, health care resource utilization, and costs compared with their counterparts who switch to nonantipsychotics.

A research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics uncovered a gap between observed practice and guideline recommendations in medication prescribing for pediatric pharyngitis.

A report published in JAMA Internal Medicine questions the benefits of medications prescribed to elderly patients with dementia.

Patients with bronchial asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease fare best with metered dose inhalers that have spacer devices.

Significant problems found in how health officials communicate with patients and caretakers.

Even intermittent heroin abuse can worsen human immunodeficiency virus infections.

Pediatric osteomyelitis patients who receive oral antibiotics after discharge do not fare any worse than children treated intravenously.