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2024 IDstewardship Year End Review

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It is likely our newsletter will remain a key communication for reaching the IDstewardship community.Not knowing what 2025 will hold, it is likely unpredictable events in our future will further guide what activities we engage in this year. Steven Smoke, Pharm.D., It is likely there will be greater activity on Bluesky and less activity on X.

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STAT+: DaVita faces another probe over ties to kidney care charity

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attorney general is specifically looking at “communications with AKF, documents relating to donations to the AKF, and communications with patients, providers, and insurers regarding the AKF.” ” The probe covers everything from January 2016 to the present day.

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Five Lessons Learned About Antimicrobial Stewardship Metrics

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Along this line of thought, I have also learned to be gentle with how I communicate my lack of confidence in data that is shared with me. It is critical to recognizethat the data source and system it is filtered through will determinethe quality of the data. It is first important to be grateful to receive information from your colleague.

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EMA issues guidance amidst European medicine shortage

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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published recommendations to increase communication and planning efforts in a bid stop the current medicine shortages becoming even worse. The EMA set up a task force in 2016 in light of issues concerning medicine availability and supply chain.

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Creative agency woolley pau regains independence after buyout

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Shorthose, Christian Dawson and Dean Woolley bought out the agency, which was had previously been acquired by healthcare communications company gyro in 2007 and then in 2016 by digital marketing company Dentsu Aegis Network. Ed Shorthose, managing director, said the move “felt right on every level”.

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A decade of driving medicines optimisation innovation in clinical pharmacy

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2 In early 2016, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety published the Northern Ireland Medicines Optimisation Quality Framework 3 to enhance health outcomes by ensuring that medicines deliver the best possible results whenever they are prescribed, dispensed or administered. March 2016 [Accessed April 2025].

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Astellas doubles down on partnership and buys bioelectronics firm iota

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Bioelectronics is a field that has been investigated by Google’s life sciences division Verily, which co-founded Galvani Bioelectronics with GlaxoSmithKline in 2016. iota’s technology uses ultrasound as a power source and means of communication. iota’s technology uses ultrasound as a power source and means of communication.