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The Value of a Medically Integrated Pharmacy to Maximize Cost Avoidance and Reduce Waste of Oral Oncolytic Medications

Pharmacy Times

The National Institutes of Health reports that in 2012, $418 billion was wasted in the US due to suboptimal use of medications. Medically integrated pharmacy (MIP) interventions using data from a cost avoidance and waste tracker tool show: The net cost avoidance for the MIPs was $6,510,971.28 compared with $546,082.45

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Hospital pharmacist-led re-evaluation of medication errors: a pilot study

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

Karl-Johan Lindner and Marie Halvarsson, from the pharmacy at Västerås Hospital in Sweden, describe a new approach to improve the categorisation of medication errors that uses the skills of hospital pharmacists to reclassify reported incidents based on a given medication process. One million injections or infusions and 1.7

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Adherence to NICE criteria for initiation and continuation of treatment with a biologic in atopic dermatitis

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

Here we report on a retrospective study undertaken in a UK hospital to investigate adherence to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) criteria and guidance in treatment of atopic dermatitis with a biologic therapy. The hospital. Patient data were used in accordance with local NHS hospital policy.

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Understanding the evidence used in drug product withdrawals

European Pharmaceutical Review

Between 1999 and 2001, it supported 17 percent of withdrawals, between 2002 and 2011, it supported 26 percent of withdrawals and by 2012 to 2016, 80 percent of withdrawals were supported by observational studies (cohort, case-control, or other epidemiologic design). Meta-analyses contributed least frequently (31.4 As of October 2023, 62.93