by GV Team | Oct 25, 2018 | Drug Information, Patient Safety, Reducing Readmissions, Resources, Senior Health
When people get prescriptions for medications, they assume the products they’re taking are correct and should help them feel better. However, statistics indicate medication errors happen during 3.8 million hospital admissions and 3.3 million outpatient visits every...
by GV Team | Oct 12, 2018 | Drug Information, Resources, Senior Health
Article by Jill Drury, PharmD, Pharmacy Times Brown-bag consults can be essential educational and safety tools to measure and ensure quality care. By asking patients to bring in all their current medications, including OTC, mail-order, specialty, and herbal products,...
by GV Team | Sep 28, 2018 | Drug Information, Patient Safety, Resources, Senior Health
Article by National Institute on Aging “Clinicians were more likely to reduce the number and dose of opioid drugs they prescribed when they learned that one of their patients had died from a controlled substance overdose than those clinicians who were not...
by GV Team | Sep 21, 2018 | Drug Information, Patient Safety, Reducing Readmissions, Resources, Senior Health
Article by Shashi N. Kapadia, MD, MS, The Joint Commission Journal “Dedicated antimicrobial stewardship software was present at each of the programs and was used for generating alerts for stewardship personnel to identify opportunities for intervention,...
by GV Team | Sep 20, 2018 | Drug Information, Patient Safety, Resources, Senior Health
Article by Kathleen Fifield, AARP “Designed to “fill in the gaps” about whether daily low-dose aspirin has benefits for healthy adults over 70 — an age group left unaddressed in existing medical guidelines, a major new study published in the New England Journal...
by GV Team | Sep 13, 2018 | Drug Information, Patient Safety, Resources, Senior Health
Article by Pharmacy Times “Amid an evolving health care landscape, pharmacists’ growing role in administering influenza and other vaccines can provide them with new opportunities to enhance their business and improve patient health. Pharmacists’ scope of...
