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Episode 918: What Happens If You Give a Cephalosporin to a Patient With Moderate, Severe, or Unknown Beta-Lactam Allergy?

Pharmacy Joe

Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher The label of “penicillin allergic” usually sticks to a patient’s medical record forever. The trouble is that many recorded allergies are actually intolerances, such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.

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Long-Awaited Guidance on FDAMA 115: Confirmatory Evidence Finally Has Its Moment (to be Crossed Off the FDA’s Guidance To-Do List)

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

The new guidance is one of three policy documents dedicated to explaining FDA’s interpretation of this statutory authority and their approach to exercising scientific judgment in evaluating drug effectiveness. objective clinical outcomes in the context of detailed medical record collection). In these recent experiences (i.e.,

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How Prescribing Software is Taking the Pharmacy Industry by Storm

pharmacy mentor

PMR system – PMR systems are designed to provide comprehensive and up-to-date medication records for each patient and supports ​​better coordination with other healthcare providers. It also ensures that all relevant information is readily accessible, enabling pharmacists to make informed decisions and provide personalised care.

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Episode 641: How Pharmacists Can Improve Their Working Relationships With Physicians (and Nurses)

Pharmacy Joe

Don’t get me wrong – I’m not suggesting that you don’t document necessary pieces of information in the medical record, or that you don’t document your interventions. But for basic interventions like I just described, it makes the physician look good when they “fix up” orders based on your informal recommendations.

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Sentinel Events Should Result In A Blameless Society — Not Make The Employee The Scapegoat

The Happy PharmD

These documents focused on why the sentinel event occurred. In this particular case, the physician folded the medication order when he placed it in the nurse’s bin. The nurse transcribed the medication order on the patient’s (nurse’s) record system. Both the label and the product had to match the order before the product.