ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

MARCH 29, 2023

Children 29 days or older with fever from a documented viral source can be managed according to their clinical presentation and can go outside the algorithm. This requires a documented positive viral swab and not just a presentation consistent with a viral syndrome. What should be done if the viral panel is positive ?

Hospitals 360

Hospitals Documentation Inpatient Immunity 360

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 27, 2024

Episode 908: Finally, All the VTE Recommendations In One Document! This meant that any unchanged guidance statements from the 2012 9th edition were still considered to be part of the guidelines, but were not reprinted in the 2016 document. appeared first on Pharmacy Joe.

Documentation 52

Documentation Inpatient 52

Pharmacy Joe

MAY 1, 2024

A total of 184 patients met the criteria of presenting to the ED and being admitted for bacterial infection, having a reported beta-lactam allergy history that was moderate, severe, or unknown in nature, and who did not have a documented history of beta-lactam tolerance. He experienced a rash to the piperacillin-tazobactam as an inpatient.

Inpatient 98

Inpatient Medical Records Documentation Labelling 98

Pharmacy Joe

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Clindamycin is given a strong recommendation by the IDSA to be added to penicillin for treatment of documented group A streptococcal necrotizing fasciitis. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Inpatient 97

Inpatient Documentation 97

Pharmacy Joe

APRIL 26, 2023

There were no infusion-related reactions including phlebitis or IV site reactions that were documented. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharma cist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Inpatient 105

Inpatient Documentation 105

Pharmacy Joe

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher If you navigate to the page on the website for the Institute for Safe Medication Practices that once hosted the document titled “Oral Dosage Forms That Should Not Be Crushed” you will instead find a notice that the list has been removed from the ISMP website.

Dosage 111

Dosage Inpatient Packaging Documentation 111

pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The burden was chiefly driven by direct costs like medicinal products, inpatient and outpatient hospital visits and home healthcare, as well as mortality costs, calculated at $130,000 per year lost. The highest burden was posed by metabolic diseases and neurological disorders, which were both upwards of $300,000 PPPY.

Inpatient 98

Inpatient Documentation Diabetes Hospitals 98

Board Vitals - Pharmacist

JULY 19, 2022

While job searching, it is important to note that all hospitals have different educational requirements for NPs, therefore, this post is documenting the “typical” jobs for nurse practitioners. Inpatient and Outpatient Consult Services. Emergency Medicine. Nothing defines the term “acute” like emergency medicine (EM).

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Hospitals Documentation 52

pharmaphorum

AUGUST 11, 2022

CMS recently finalized its proposal to include the score in its Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program featured in the 2023 Inpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule. What is the Global Malnutrition Composite Score?

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Inpatient Documentation 52

Pharmacy Joe

AUGUST 25, 2024

Louis just published a prospective before-after pilot and feasibility trial of an educational initiative aimed at instituting reliable ED sedation depth documentation and reducing the proportion of deeply sedated patients. The final analysis of the study population included 415 patients across 3 medical centers. post-intervention.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Hospitals Documentation 52

Pharmacy Joe

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The authors ackowledge the limitations of such a document including a relatively small number of people providing input and the risk of persuasive voices influencing group thinking. To access my free download area with 20 different resources to help you in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/free.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Documentation 52

Pharmacy Joe

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The authors ackowledge the limitations of such a document including a relatively small number of people providing input and the risk of persuasive voices influencing group thinking. To access my free download area with 20 different resources to help you in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/free.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Documentation 52

Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In about one-fifth of the aPTTs results there was documented interference by the lab. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– This cohort of patients had 531 aPTTs drawn collectively.

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Hospitals Documentation 52

Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The current guidance in the Pfizer document states: Limited inventory released direct and to wholesalers/distributors in part or full when available. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Hospitals Documentation 52

Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The current guidance in the Pfizer document states: Limited inventory released direct and to wholesalers/distributors in part or full when available. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Hospitals Documentation 52

Pharmacy Joe

APRIL 26, 2023

There were no infusion-related reactions including phlebitis or IV site reactions that were documented. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharma cist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Inpatient 52

Inpatient Documentation 52

Pharmacy Joe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– To access my free download area with 20 different resources to help you in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/free.

Pharmacy Technician 52

Pharmacy Technician Communication Inpatient Documentation 52

Pharmacy Joe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– To access my free download area with 20 different resources to help you in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/free.

Pharmacy Technician 52

Pharmacy Technician Communication Inpatient Documentation 52

Pharmacy Joe

JUNE 5, 2022

No patient in the study cohort required treatment for extravasation, and the bedside team taking care of each patient never documented an extravasation event. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Documentation 40

Documentation Hospitals Inpatient 40

Pharmacy Joe

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The exception regarding haloperidol and lorazepam is not generalizable as elsewhere in the same document the authors state: Do not give with or within 1 hour of any BZD given risk for respiratory suppresion The article in this episode is a selection from my Hospital Pharmacy Academys weekly literature digest.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Inpatient Documentation Labelling 52

Board Vitals - Pharmacist

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The benefits offered by advanced level practitioners to practice is well documented as well. between 2012 and 2015. The study said, “Most of these specialists were advanced practitioners, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, delivering post-acute care.” or lower.”

Nursing Homes 52

Nursing Homes Hospitals Inpatient Documentation 52

Pharmacy Joe

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

If you like this post, check outmy book A Pharmacists Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– To get immediate access go to pharmacyjoe.com/academy.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Inpatient Documentation 52

Pharmacy Joe

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher If you navigate to the page on the website for the Institute for Safe Medication Practices that once hosted the document titled “Oral Dosage Forms That Should Not Be Crushed” you will instead find a notice that the list has been removed from the ISMP website.

Dosage 52

Dosage Inpatient Packaging Documentation 52

Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 27, 2023

In an email to Pharmaceutical Technology , he further described the therapy as “the most important advance for treatment of TTP since the documentation of effectiveness of plasma exchange in 1991”. A refund up to 12 inpatient doses will also be offered for patients whose disease worsens while receiving treatment.

Documentation 52

Documentation Immunity Immunization Inpatient 52

Pharmacy Joe

JANUARY 10, 2021

This data, together with the dose-related risk of GI bleeding from ketorolac documented in the prescribing information , has caused me to abandon using the 30 and 60 mg doses of ketorolac in my practice. This is yet another study demonstrating that the analgesic ceiling dose of ketorolac is 10 mg.

Clinical Pharmacology 40

Clinical Pharmacology Inpatient Dosage Documentation 40

Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Documentation within the medical record. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– This 3-step procedure includes: 1. Determination of indication 2. Review of prior opioid use 3.

Hospitals 40

Hospitals Medical Records Inpatient Documentation 40

Pharmacy Joe

APRIL 27, 2022

Louis just published a prospective before-after pilot and feasibility trial of an educational initiative aimed at instituting reliable ED sedation depth documentation and reducing the proportion of deeply sedated patients. The final analysis of the study population included 415 patients across 3 medical centers. post-intervention.

Inpatient 40

Inpatient Hospitals Documentation 40

Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In about one-fifth of the aPTTs results there was documented interference by the lab. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– This cohort of patients had 531 aPTTs drawn collectively.

Inpatient 40

Inpatient Hospitals Documentation 40

ID Stewardship

DECEMBER 13, 2024

It may be derived from work completed inthe microbiology lab, unitsdispensed from the pharmacy, administrations performed by nurses, expenditures produced from drug purchases, documentation within any area of the electronic medical record, extraction from supplemental tools or data warehouses, and so much more.

Communication 90

Communication Medical Records Inpatient Documentation 90

Pharmacy Joe

APRIL 16, 2025

The definition of good or excellent hemostasis was based on the Sarode criteria (Table 3 of this document ) which has been used in most other studies looking at the effectiveness of andexanet or PCCs. The primary safety outcome was the occurrence of a thrombotic event during their hospital stay.

Hospitals 40

Hospitals Inpatient Documentation 40

pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The FDA may still approve the drug – its reviewer had called some elements of the data persuasive in a briefing document – but even if it does getting payers to stump up for a drug with shaky data could be a challenge, despite the lack of Alzheimer’s therapies. million, around the same level as the same period of 2019.

Inpatient 45

Inpatient Documentation 45

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.

Medical Records 52

Medical Records Inpatient Documentation Communication 52

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.

Medical Records 52

Medical Records Inpatient Documentation Communication 52

Integra X Files

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Medicare pays much better but covers fewer residents and only for short periods of time, usually following inpatient hospitalization. The document for calculating the score is derived from the Minimum Data Set (MDS). Drugs are included in this payment and the drug payment component is found in the NTA calculation.

Nursing Homes 52

Nursing Homes Inpatient Documentation Immunity 52

Pharmacy Joe

JUNE 21, 2020

There were no infusion-related reactions including phlebitis or IV site reactions that were documented. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharma cist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Inpatient 40

Inpatient Documentation 40

RX Note

JUNE 21, 2023

In the UK, the unification of the prescription and the administration meant this document need to remain on the hospital ward and required the pharmacist to visit the ward to order medicines. Any special dosing of drugs may also be supported with reasons written on drug charts so that pharmacists at inpatient can take note.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Patient Counseling Inpatient Dosage 52

Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Both the prescriber and pharmacist were required to document the source of the patient’s U-500 insulin dose in the electronic record, as well as which device the patient used to draw their U-500 insulin dose at home (U-100 insulin syringe, TB syringes, etc).

Hospitals 40

Hospitals Communication Inpatient Documentation 40