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Investigation launched into alleged animal welfare violations at Neuralink

pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 7, 2022

We only know Animal 20’s story because we sued @UCDavis for the medical records & are still engaged in a lawsuit to get access to photos and videos of these experiments. Without proper context, information from medical records and study data can be misleading.”. — Physicians Committee (@PCRM) November 30, 2022.

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When Worlds Collide: The Theory of Real-World Evidence Meets Reality

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

MAY 13, 2024

There is ample data collected on them during this 24/7 monitoring period such as case notes, contemporaneous patient medical records, and patient tapes. Every use of ESD is recorded, as is every behavior that falls within the intended use. Patients that use ESD undergo continuous 24/7 monitoring.

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Pharmacy Is Right For Me

APRIL 4, 2023

In addition to learning more about unique pathways on-site, you can also understand more about the career paths of these pharmacists here on our blog. Another unique aspect of this model is that all interprofessional team members can access and document within a universal electronic medical record (EPIC).

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When Should a 510(k) Include Clinical Data?

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

OCTOBER 18, 2023

electronic health records, claims). These include: results of pre- and post-market clinical investigation(s) of the device (i.e.,

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Episode 749: Three reasons why 1 clinical pharmacist on the unit = 2 in the office

Pharmacy Joe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

If I’m trying to determine whether venous thromboembolism prophylaxis is appropriate, it is much faster and accurate to see the sequential compression stockings (SCDs) on the patient’s legs than it is to search the medical record for documentation that SCDs were applied.

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Episode 749: Three reasons why 1 clinical pharmacist on the unit = 2 in the office

Pharmacy Joe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

If I’m trying to determine whether venous thromboembolism prophylaxis is appropriate, it is much faster and accurate to see the sequential compression stockings (SCDs) on the patient’s legs than it is to search the medical record for documentation that SCDs were applied.

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Lots of FDA Guidance, But Few Drug Manufacturing “Remote Interactive Evaluations” (We Would Call Them “Virtual Inspections”)

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Admittedly, BiMo inspections (into items like adequacy of bioequivalence data, consistency of clinical trial data with medical records, and compliance with clinical trial protocols) lend themselves better to an RIE than assessing manufacturing compliance with regulatory requirements.

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Pride and Visibility: Perspective from a New Grad RN

InCrowd

JUNE 12, 2023

After taking report, I noticed the legal name attached to her medical record was not consistent with what I perceived as her gender expression. I had a patient in the ICU who was recovering from a serious infection.

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Personalized Medicine Requires a New Approach to Quality Control

Syner-G

JULY 7, 2023

As we continue to learn even more about individuals through genome sequencing and the integration of that data into medical records, personalized medicine has the potential to revolutionize the field.

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Episode 837: Don’t Let IV Medications Shift A Patient Out of Ketosis

Pharmacy Joe

JULY 23, 2023

The main purpose of an institutional protocol is to develop awareness and provide education to clinicians about how to care for patients on a ketogenic diet.

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Episode 837: Don’t Let IV Medications Shift A Patient Out of Ketosis

Pharmacy Joe

JULY 23, 2023

The main purpose of an institutional protocol is to develop awareness and provide education to clinicians about how to care for patients on a ketogenic diet.

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Success Guidelines For Pharma Contract Inside Sales Forces

PharmaKinnex

APRIL 18, 2022

Inside sales teams supply services, such as research, digital marketing, direct mail campaigns, electronic medical record marketing & advertising, etc. Success Guidelines For Pharma Contract Inside Sales Forces April 18, 2022. The benefits of which provide pharma companies with flexibility and scalability.

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7. Reflections on a Career in Pharmacy and Medicine with Dr. Steven Berk

The Physician Pharmacist

OCTOBER 27, 2023

⚡️ For more resources to get started, check out some of our other blog post content! The MCAT: Everything You Need To Know How Hard is Medical School Can you work while in Medical School? I mean, a lot of the doctors moaned and groaned about the electronic medical record, but I was an advocate, right from the beginning.

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Business strategy and forecasting: How generics pharma can befriend them?

Express Pharma

APRIL 12, 2023

New, niche and underserved markets may be spotted by analysing information from social media, demographics, electronic medical records and other sources of data.

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How clinical pharmacists can save lives and employer costs

HealthPartners

AUGUST 23, 2022

Learn more about HealthPartners medication therapy management services. The post How clinical pharmacists can save lives and employer costs appeared first on Plan Blog. I'm grateful for the chance to do this work."

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Decision Making Has Always Been In My DNA — Regardless If I Have The Right To Make The Call

The Happy PharmD

AUGUST 4, 2023

These departments include neurology, speech & audiology, admitting, medical records, dental clinic, etc. Then when it’s their turn, they get directions and a pass to visit their patient. There are also those visitors that have appointments at one of the hospital’s departments. It’s my job to assist them.

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Episode 641: How Pharmacists Can Improve Their Working Relationships With Physicians (and Nurses)

Pharmacy Joe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Don’t get me wrong – I’m not suggesting that you don’t document necessary pieces of information in the medical record, or that you don’t document your interventions. But for basic interventions like I just described, it makes the physician look good when they “fix up” orders based on your informal recommendations.

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Female Providers, A Unique Perspective: Part 2

InCrowd

JULY 14, 2022

2 This has allowed us to better adapt to changes in both the electronic medical record, and pivot to the “new normal” of the ongoing pandemic including telemedicine visits, zoom meetings, and team projects done through online platforms.

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Sentinel Events Should Result In A Blameless Society — Not Make The Employee The Scapegoat

The Happy PharmD

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In this particular case, the physician folded the medication order when he placed it in the nurse’s bin. The nurse transcribed the medication order on the patient’s (nurse’s) record system. The medication record system containing all the medications that the patient was taking was called the “kardex”.

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Guidance on Standardizing Terminology and Collection: Another Step in FDA’s Path to Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Clinical Trials

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Livornese — Last week FDA issued a new draft guidance titled Collection of Race and Ethnicity Data in Clinical Trials and Clinical Studies for FDA-Regulated Medical Products. The Draft Guidance emphasizes that study team should not answer the questions based on observation or even on existing medical records.

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Episode 696: Is your micro lab hiding susceptibility data from you?

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 16, 2022

Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher When a hospital microbiology laboratory performs antimicrobial susceptibility testing using microdilution or disk diffusion methods, not all of the results are presented to clinicians in the medical record. Let me know in the comments below.

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Episode 918: What Happens If You Give a Cephalosporin to a Patient With Moderate, Severe, or Unknown Beta-Lactam Allergy?

Pharmacy Joe

MAY 1, 2024

Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher The label of “penicillin allergic” usually sticks to a patient’s medical record forever. The trouble is that many recorded allergies are actually intolerances, such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.

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Pharma Marketing Solutions That Help Address Whitespace

PharmaKinnex

APRIL 13, 2022

Electronic Medical Record, or EMR, are digital versions of the paper charts in clinician offices, clinics, and hospitals. Pharmaceutical companies can take the benefits of electronic medical records one step further by reaching the prescribers with banner ads, popup ads, and suggested products through their EMR platforms.

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Episode 799: Can the Tisdale Risk Score be used to identify ICU patients at risk of QTc prolongation?

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 12, 2023

An advantage of this scoring system is that it uses clinical values that are easily obtained from the medical record and it is practical to perform. The authors of a recent study published in Pharmacotherapy sought to evaluate the usefulness of the TRS in a medical ICU.

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Episode 661: Fentanyl Patch Safety in Hospitals

Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Documentation within the medical record. In 2017 the authors developed and implemented a procedure requiring an opioid status verification by a pharmacist for all fentanyl patch orders. This 3-step procedure includes: 1. Determination of indication 2. Review of prior opioid use 3.

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Episode 786: One Simple Intervention to Raise ED Sepsis Identification and Bundle Compliance

Pharmacy Joe

JANUARY 25, 2023

The pre-huddle period provided notification of possible sepsis to providers within the electronic medical record using an alert system. After implementing the huddle process the authors compared 80 post-huddle patients with 21 pre-huddle patients. Between the two groups, code sepsis was activated 91.3%

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Episode 786: One Simple Intervention to Raise ED Sepsis Identification and Bundle Compliance

Pharmacy Joe

JANUARY 25, 2023

The pre-huddle period provided notification of possible sepsis to providers within the electronic medical record using an alert system. After implementing the huddle process the authors compared 80 post-huddle patients with 21 pre-huddle patients. Between the two groups, code sepsis was activated 91.3%

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Episode 523: Why did the vancomycin guidelines make the switch to AUC/MIC based dosing?

Pharmacy Joe

JULY 19, 2020

In addition, the availability of first-order pharmacokinetic calculators, possibly even embedded in the electronic medical record and bayesian dosing methods that can guide AUC/MIC dosing are now readily available.

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Long-Awaited Guidance on FDAMA 115: Confirmatory Evidence Finally Has Its Moment (to be Crossed Off the FDA’s Guidance To-Do List)

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Several of these approvals, including examples in which we were directly involved—Relyvrio for ALS and Skyclarys for Friedreich’s Ataxia—expanded upon the examples FDA previously provided to illustrate their interpretation of the single study plus confirmatory evidence statutory standard (see our earlier blog posts here and here ).

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Investigation launched into alleged animal welfare violations at Neuralink

When Worlds Collide: The Theory of Real-World Evidence Meets Reality

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Connecting with Patients at Home

When Should a 510(k) Include Clinical Data?

Episode 749: Three reasons why 1 clinical pharmacist on the unit = 2 in the office

Episode 749: Three reasons why 1 clinical pharmacist on the unit = 2 in the office

Lots of FDA Guidance, But Few Drug Manufacturing “Remote Interactive Evaluations” (We Would Call Them “Virtual Inspections”)

Pride and Visibility: Perspective from a New Grad RN

Personalized Medicine Requires a New Approach to Quality Control

Episode 837: Don’t Let IV Medications Shift A Patient Out of Ketosis

Episode 837: Don’t Let IV Medications Shift A Patient Out of Ketosis

Success Guidelines For Pharma Contract Inside Sales Forces

7. Reflections on a Career in Pharmacy and Medicine with Dr. Steven Berk

Business strategy and forecasting: How generics pharma can befriend them?

How clinical pharmacists can save lives and employer costs

Decision Making Has Always Been In My DNA — Regardless If I Have The Right To Make The Call

Episode 641: How Pharmacists Can Improve Their Working Relationships With Physicians (and Nurses)

Female Providers, A Unique Perspective: Part 2

Sentinel Events Should Result In A Blameless Society — Not Make The Employee The Scapegoat

Guidance on Standardizing Terminology and Collection: Another Step in FDA’s Path to Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Clinical Trials

Episode 696: Is your micro lab hiding susceptibility data from you?

Episode 918: What Happens If You Give a Cephalosporin to a Patient With Moderate, Severe, or Unknown Beta-Lactam Allergy?

Pharma Marketing Solutions That Help Address Whitespace

Episode 799: Can the Tisdale Risk Score be used to identify ICU patients at risk of QTc prolongation?

Episode 661: Fentanyl Patch Safety in Hospitals

Episode 786: One Simple Intervention to Raise ED Sepsis Identification and Bundle Compliance

Episode 786: One Simple Intervention to Raise ED Sepsis Identification and Bundle Compliance

Episode 523: Why did the vancomycin guidelines make the switch to AUC/MIC based dosing?

Long-Awaited Guidance on FDAMA 115: Confirmatory Evidence Finally Has Its Moment (to be Crossed Off the FDA’s Guidance To-Do List)

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