Real time health records reduce clinical errors, enhance time with patients
... user-driven, with input from the nurses, doctors, pharmacists and technicians who will implement it, Dr. Goldstein emphasizes. "Our mandate is to make life easier for our staff, who have increasingly high workloads and expectations for evidence-based decision-making but less time to do it."...Sutter Health announces plan to deploy Bridge MedPoint error-prevention system
...here's a national shortage of nurses, but hospital pharmacists are also in demand. MedPoint will help us continue to attract pharmacists savvy enough to choose a hospital that's invested in the best medication safety technology on the ma...Can longer consultations really save time and resources?
... say the authors. The potential exists to redeploy pharmacists into general practices to review patients and supervise drugs, making best use of their knowledge and developing skills. This would free up general practitioners and enable them to extend consultations and improve the depth and breadth of care, they ...Eastern Washington hospitals deploy new Bridge technology to enhance patient safety
...int at the other PSEW hospitals," says Davis. "Our pharmacists are pleased with the system," says Sacred Heart Di...rth, PharmD, RPh, "because it will give nurses and pharmacists more time to devote to patients. MedPoint automatically generates an electronic Medication Administr...One-on-one with pharmacists gives patients medication advantage
...bjects come to a pharmacy, the pharmacists came to the participants' churches. ... The study participants met with pharmacists or pharmacy interns - the latter were student pharmacists - for an hour-long "br...Smoking cessation success equally good with over-the-counter or prescription nicotine replacement
...rescription success rates. Training physicians and pharmacists on proper prescribing and counseling may promote cessation and proper use of effective treatments, says Shiffman. However, given increasing pressures on doctors time, achieving widespread cessation through them seems unlikely. Requiring a prescript...Medical education lacks emphasis on adverse drug reactions, Georgetown research finds
...sults of studies revealing that involving clinical pharmacists as part of the health care team results in improvements in health care outcome, fewer than 50% of internal medicine residents are exposed to this expertise and culture, the study reported. The majority of respondents to the study survey indicated a ...Generic vs. name brand medications
...ic pharmaceuticals and the legal issues of whether pharmacists should dispense generics. Also involved in the project are Frank Ascione, professor of social and administrative sciences and associate dean for academic affairs; Caroline Gaither, associate professor, social and administrative sciences; and Lynda We...'Handwriting challenged' doctors to take penmanship class at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
...e how many calls our doctors' offices receive from pharmacists who cannot read their prescriptions. After the class, we will do follow up to see if the numbers have decreased. At Cedars-Sinai, we have a whole network of interdisciplinary committees that work to improve, not just maintain, our already high leve...Psychologist finds low-cost methods to prevent pharmacy mistakes
... mistakes made in the final order. "Normally, when pharmacists are doing their work, they don't get a lot of feed...l is to develop a pharmacy simulator where working pharmacists could come and work the same way airline pilots use flight simulators....Conference to examine nutritional supplements, medicinal herbs for managing health problems
...s, nurse practitioners, physician's assistants and pharmacists who need to understand the origins and effects of ...ion and testing and practical issues for patients, pharmacists and clinicians. Speakers include Dr. Z.J. Chen of Carolina Acupuncture and Natural Healing, Dr. Amy ...UCSF professor receives Pharmaceutical Scientist of the Year Award
...ague, The Netherlands, in 1912 and brings together pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists from around the world to share research knowledge. The meeting in Barcelona, Spain is the 59th World Pharmacy Congress and runs from Sept. 5-10. Giacomini was presented the scientist of the year award at the meeting's o...Study Confirms Safety Of Common Heart Drug
...rge urban hospital." "Over the years physicians, pharmacists and nurses have worked together andlearned a lot more about the drug so we can tailor dosing more specificallytoward a particular patient," says study lead-author Dr. Kristin M. Williamson,adjunct assistant professor at UNC's School of Pharmacy. "And...Hypertension: Getting Pharmacists Involved Can Help
Teaming physicians with pharmacists who counsel patients and makemedication recommenda.... "A team approach between physicians and pharmacists may have positiveeffects even in high-risk minorities in whom control of hypertension isespecially d...Prescription Counseling Necessary For Hospital Patients
...cy. Schommer said hospital pharmacists are often pressed for time,...rugs. "Currently, hospital pharmacists aren't legally bound tooffer information to patients," Schommer said. He adde......literature that is readily availableto physicians, pharmacists and students, Maher quickly discovered Wh... "To this day, if you ask 1,000 physicians or pharmacists if phentermineis an MAO inhibitor, they will say no. This information was buried. It neversurfaced a...Clinical Pharmacists Improve Outcomes Of Heart Failure Patients
...he Duke researchers said the broad use of clinical pharmacists in themanagement of heart failure appears to save ...researchteam, said he believes the use of clinical pharmacists "will ultimately prove tobe cost-effective in the long run. The average cost per hospitalization fo...