Drug Formulary Review articles from June 2009

Drug Formulary Review archives from June 2009

Special Report: Preparing for Pandemic.
June 1, 2009... Special Report: Preparing for Pandemic [Editor's note: Drug Formulary Review presents a look at how pharmacy disaster planning experts have handled the recent novel H1N1 influenza A crisis in a two-part series. In this issue, hospital...

Disaster planning pharmacy experts offer advice on preparing for next flu pandemic.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Disaster planning pharmacy experts offer advice on preparing for next flu pandemic If swine flu virus returns, some are ready Hospital pharmacies across North America had a real life disaster drill this spring when a new influenza...

Florida hospital's disaster drill prepared it well for flu.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Florida hospital's disaster drill prepared it well for flu Changes were in place when H1N1 arrived A well prepared hospital pharmacy can look an awful lot like a very smart hospital pharmacy. When the hospital pharmacy at Sarasota...

Technology tips: health system brought stakeholders together.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Health system brought stakeholders together Nurses walked in pharmacists' shoes One strategy for making certain hospital staff are ready and willing to work with new technology is to thoroughly involve them in the beginning phases of...

Reduce medication errors through following metrics.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Reduce medication errors through following metrics Pharmacy targets workflow issues Hospital pharmacists should learn how to develop metrics for charting a variety of processes, including switching to new technology, following...

Here's how to better manage oral antidiabetic drugs toxicity.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Here's how to better manage oral antidiabetic drugs toxicity Poison expert offers guidance Most of the medication overdoses reported to the national Association of Poison Control Centers are unintentional, and many are related to...

Drug News.
June 1, 2009... Chronic metoclopramide use linked to tardive dyskinesia The FDA notified health care professionals that manufacturers of metoclopramide, a drug used to treat gastrointestinal disorders, must add a boxed warning to their drug labels about...