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...
by GV Team | Aug 23, 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 | Aug 17, 2018 | Drug Information, Resources, Senior Health
Article by AARP “Like VHS tapes and road atlases, doctors’ prescription pads are fast becoming a thing of the past. In fact, e-prescribing is now the primary way physicians are writing and sending prescriptions to pharmacies to be filled, via computers or...
by GV Team | Aug 9, 2018 | Drug Information, Messages from CEO
Article by AHRQ The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has announced a free, 12-month national project for LTC facilities to receive antibiotic use guidelines, expert coaching, online education, improvement tools, and patient education materials. The...
by GV Team | Aug 2, 2018 | Drug Information, Patient Safety, Senior Health
Article by Dena Bunis, AARP. “An overwhelming majority of Americans 50 and older support limiting the number of opioid pills patients are prescribed at one time, according to a new University of Michigan/AARP survey. Fewer than half of those responding to the...
