RX Note

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

However, a significant number of dedicated pharmacists work diligently in inpatient settings, ensuring accurate medication dispensing to hospitalized patients. Having transitioned from outpatient to inpatient pharmacy, I personally prefer the latter due to its reduced patient-related stress. mcg/kg/hour?

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STAT

JANUARY 17, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO — More than a dozen of the country’s large not-for-profit hospital systems descended on this year’s J.P. “Growth is really important to us,” said Rob McMurray, CFO of ChristianaCare, a hospital system headquartered in Delaware that has $2.6

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STAT

OCTOBER 17, 2024

UnitedHealth Group, Humana, and CVS Health targeted denials among older adults who were requesting care in nursing homes, inpatient rehab hospitals, and long-term hospitals.

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STAT

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Hospitals that decide to convert to a new type of rural provider won’t have to report quality metrics next year, but they also won’t qualify for a popular drug discount program — a likely dealbreaker for some. These facilities will run emergency rooms, but not inpatient care. 1, 2023 for facilities that opt in.

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STAT

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Montana is signaling it might step away from an innovative way of setting the prices its public employee health plan pays hospitals for services, an approach that has saved the state millions of dollars and become a model for health plans nationwide.

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have announced plans to build a new free-standing inpatient hospital for adult cancer care in Boston, breaking the cancer hospital’s almost 30-year relationship with Brigham and Women’s in a move executives said will reshape oncology care in the region.

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STAT

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Starting this year, private Medicare plans have to cover their members’ hospitalizations at the higher inpatient rate if their doctors predict they’ll have to stay beyond two midnights. For patients with MA plans, it could mean better access and smaller out-of-pocket costs after a hospitalization.

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STAT

JULY 19, 2024

The first time I saw Maya (not her real name) huddled under blankets in a hospital bed in 2013, she had been to dozens of inpatient detox programs and residential treatment centers since she had begun using heroin two decades earlier. After every release, she returned to heroin use, usually within days.

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EMCrit Project

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Consequently, a single person will often be responsible for both inpatient ICU management as well as inpatient pulmonary consultation. In many countries, pulmonary and critical care are commonly bundled together. Honestly, I have some doubts about whether this is an ideal system.

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Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 19, 2024

Hospital pharmacists can play an important role in advocating for, designing, and implementing various policies to optimize care.

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Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 11, 2024

In this episode, I’ll discuss the association between number of learners trained per year and rates of burnout among inpatient pharmacists. Episode 903: Does the Number of Learners Trained Per Year Influence the Chances of an Inpatient Pharmacist Experiencing Burning Out?

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Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 11, 2024

In this episode, I’ll discuss the association between number of learners trained per year and rates of burnout among inpatient pharmacists. The majority of survey participants worked in ambulatory care, with about one-fourth working an inpatient role and one-seventh working an infrastructure role.

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STAT

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Clinical floors will be designed to accommodate inpatient recovery, surgery, and imaging technology, services typically spread across multiple floors. AI and predictive tools will help plan care and hospital operations, and surface escalating risks and emergent clinical problems. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT

JANUARY 12, 2023

It’s a complex procedure with a lot of serious side effects that must be closely monitored, so it’s typically provided at hospitals in the inpatient setting, sometimes outpatient, and almost never in doctor offices. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 29, 2023

In this episode, I’ll discuss an article about timing of amiodarone for out-of-hospital, shock-refractory cardiac arrest. In the early group, patients who received amiodarone has statistically signficantly higher rates of survival to hospital admission, survival to discharge, and functional survival when compared to placebo.

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STAT

MAY 20, 2024

Even assuming that all of these hospitals voluntarily report their greenhouse gas emissions, they constitute a trivial amount of one of the world’s largest sources of such emissions, making up nearly 9% of total annual U.S. What HHS proposed for addressing the climate crisis is a regulatory illusion intended to accomplish nothing.

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Board Vitals - Pharmacist

JANUARY 4, 2024

Are you ready for your Hospital Medicine MOC Board Exam? After you’re done, see how many of our Hospital Medicine board review questions you answered correctly and brush up on those that you might have gotten wrong. A 67-year-old man who was admitted for a fever of unknown etiology develops shingles during this hospital admission.

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RX Note

AUGUST 4, 2023

What can I expect once I entered hospital provisional registered pharmacist training? In most hospitals, you first introduction to your workplace is through an induction period during which you are shown many different areas and meet many new people. What is the career pathway of a government hospital pharmacist?

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STAT

JULY 20, 2023

On an August Thursday in 2021, deep into the pandemic, two Massachusetts General Hospital doctors stood gowned, gloved, bootied up and ready in a retrofitted lounge on the 21st floor of Phillips House,  a 20-single-room, inpatient area with sweeping views of Boston, the Charles River and neighboring Cambridge. Just after 3 p.m.

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Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In this episode, I’ll discuss what an inpatient pharmacist needs to know about the outpatient CDC opioid guidelines. This means that you can’t simply use one style of opioid dosing while the patient is in the hospital and instantly change to something else when the patient goes home.

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STAT

MARCH 13, 2023

When NaviHealth began building a business around using algorithms to scrutinize the care of older patients a decade ago, one of the country’s largest chains of inpatient rehab and long-term care hospitals was among the first to invest.

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RX Note

MARCH 27, 2023

Hospital Pharmacy Prior to the liberalisation, all pharmacists were required to complete PRP training at government hospitals, which could involve a long wait for placement. I still remember it was about an 8-month wait before I started my PRP training at a government hospital. Do you mind retails sale job?

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Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 29, 2023

In this episode, I’ll discuss an article about timing of amiodarone for out-of-hospital, shock-refractory cardiac arrest. In the early group, patients who received amiodarone has statistically signficantly higher rates of survival to hospital admission, survival to discharge, and functional survival when compared to placebo.

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Pharmacy Times

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Outpatient models are emerging as feasible alternatives to traditional inpatient care, offering potential benefits such as reduced hospitalization, improved social well-being, and cost savings.

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Pharmacy Joe

AUGUST 2, 2023

Episode 840: A Rare Disease Resource Every Hospital Pharmacist Should Know About Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher There exists a large number of rare diseases that any given hospital pharmacist might encounter once in their practice, if at all.

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Pharmacy Joe

AUGUST 2, 2023

Episode 840: A Rare Disease Resource Every Hospital Pharmacist Should Know About Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher There exists a large number of rare diseases that any given hospital pharmacist might encounter once in their practice, if at all.

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Pharmacy Joe

JUNE 7, 2023

In this episode, I’ll discuss torsemide vs furosemide for symptoms and quality of life among patients hospitalized for heart failure. Episode 824: Torsemide vs Furosemide – Which Is Better For Symptoms and Quality of Life Among Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure? appeared first on Pharmacy Joe.

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Proxsys Rx

APRIL 4, 2024

According to a report by The American Hospital Association , the number of Americans with chronic medical conditions will grow by a projected 9% between 2020 and 2030, an increase of 14 million people. Moreover, it’s estimated that nearly 90% of all large hospitals are already operating their own specialty pharmacies.

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Pharmacy Joe

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

In this episode, I’ll discuss the continuation of newly prescribed gabapentin for acute pain management after hospital discharge. A group of authors recently published a retrospective cohort study characterizing the use of newly prescribed gabapentin in hospital inpatients. Episode 961: Is that gabapentin just temporary?

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Pharmacy Times

APRIL 21, 2023

All-cause inpatient mortality or discharge to hospice was lower for patients who received dexamethasone within 48 hours of either admission or escalation in oxygen support.

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Pharmacy Joe

JUNE 5, 2024

Nearly 800 patients at 5 hospitals were included in the analysis. The primary outcome was all-cause in-hospital mortality, and secondary outcomes were cardiovascular in-hospital mortality and unfavorable neurological outcome. Furthermore, the odds ratio for cardiovascular in-hospital mortality was 5.5 for epinephrine.

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Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

On hospital day 12, the patient crushed and nasally inhaled his prescribed and hospital-dispensed 150 mg bupropion tablet. As the patient improved on hospital day 22 the methylprednisolone was tapered down to 60 mg every 12 hours, then on hospital day 24 it was decreased to 60 mg every day for 4 days, then it was discontinued.

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Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In this episode, I’ll discuss new orders for fentanyl patches in the hospital setting. Episode 661: Fentanyl Patch Safety in Hospitals Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher Transdermal fentanyl patches are contraindicated in the treatment of acute pain or in patients who are not opioid tolerant.

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Putting Patients First Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The NHC commends CMS for its continued efforts to expand the transparency of hospital pricing and to increase access to diagnostic tools in the 2024 OPPS. For instance, one study published in January 2023 found various transparency levels for commercial prices across hospitals. Our specific comments are included below.

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Pharmacy Times

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Cardioprotective antihyperglycemic agents are underutilized for inpatient care in heart failure patients. Lack of use can lead to preventable patient deaths and hospital readmissions.

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Pharmacy Times

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The increased costs for patients with recurrent hyperkalemia were driven by the increased inpatient medical cost of additional time spent in the hospital following recurrence.

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Proxsys Rx

AUGUST 22, 2023

According to a report by The American Hospital Association , the number of Americans with chronic medical conditions will grow by a projected 9% between 2020 and 2030, an increase of 14 million people. Moreover, it’s estimated that nearly 90% of all large hospitals are already operating their own specialty pharmacies.

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