Tackling racial disparities among health care providers can help improve disparities faced by patients.
Indications for adalimumab include ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn disease, chronic plaque psoriasis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and ulcerative colitis.
It is the role of the pharmacist to ensure patients are adequately counseled on the adverse effects and potential harms of codeine.
The opportunity to provide non-invasive colorectal cancer screening and education to patients is undoubtedly a role that pharmacists can fill.
The most common medication errors seen in LTC facilities include dispensing errors, delay in delivery, and expired inventory.
There are several important policy issues that could impact pharmacists’ ability to positively affect the quality of care for patients through the use of pharmacy performance measures.
Extravasation is defined as the inadvertent leakage of a vesicant from the vein into the surrounding tissue.
Rebyota is a live biotherapeutic product that is unfamiliar to many pharmacists and other health care providers with different steps in the eventual administration process.
Chronic hypertension during pregnancy increases the risk of poor pregnancy and birth outcomes.
This study highlights one benefit of the integrated health system specialty pharmacy model for patients who are prescribed acalabrutinib.
A specialty pharmacy can effectively dispense, monitor, and follow-up with transplant patients who are maintained on the standard triple-drug immunosuppression regimen.
Students should prepare to be preceptors early in their pharmacy school careers.
With many different classes of medications used in the treatment of major depressive disorder, pharmacists can have a significant impact on patients' lives, from counseling on medications to assisting with finding the right medication.
In a collaboration using a neutral zone, organizations do not have access to each other’s data, but will instead have access to insights gathered by pooling their data together with other organizations for analysis by artificial intelligence technology.
The FDA has approved elacestrant (Orserdu) for the treatment of postmenopausal women or adult men with estrogen receptor–positive (ER+), HER2-negative, ESR1-mutated advanced or metastatic breast cancer with disease progression following at least 1 line of endocrine therapy.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of managing infections properly globally and the need for stewardship networks among partners.
Many pharmacy professionals feel discouraged, underutilized, and undervalued, but the support staff often saves the day.
Financial assistance platforms improve patient outcomes and the pharmacy bottom line.
Given the increasing value of patient satisfaction in determining the quality of care in the hospital reimbursement model, research is flourishing with a focus on identifying the factors that could positively influence patient satisfaction outcomes.
Commonly known as “relationship addiction,” co-dependency involves emotional, spiritual, physical, or mental enmeshment with a loved one.
Without a constitutional right to abortion, mail order pharmacy providers need to consider both the federal requirements and various state laws in how they approach the dispensing of mifepristone across state lines.
Although some pharmacy employees have left the profession, others have stayed but changed direction.
Real-world metrics demonstrate that using health-system specialty pharmacies (HSSPs) means everyone wins: health systems, clinicians, and patients.
The role of monoclonal antibodies in minimizing COVID-19–related complications remains important to assess.
The number of medical visits carried out via telehealth grew from 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 million in 2020.
Pharmacists play an important role in providing education and support with adherence to PrEP in populations with a high risk for HIV infection.