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5 Ways To Celebrate Antibiotic Awareness Week 2024

IDStewardship

This article discusses ways to celebrate the annual observance of antibiotic awareness week 2024. In 2024 USAAW and WAAW is November 18th through 25th. The problems with antibiotic resistance do not reside in a hospital or a single country alone but are pervasive throughout global societies. Written by: Timothy P.

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Methadone Dispensing at Discharge Can Help Shorten Hospital Stays for Patients with OUD

Drug Topics

A posted presented at ASHP 2024 examined if improved access to methadone could decrease hospital length of stay and readmission rates.

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SGLT2i Reduces Hospitalizations, Mortality in Patients With Heart Failure

Drug Topics

The Heart Failure Society of America 2024 Annual Meeting featured presentations exploring the benefits of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) for patients with heart failure.

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STAT+: Latest updates to hospital price transparency rules aim to make the data more useful

STAT

The new year ushered in a final slate of updates to the federal rules for how hospitals have to disclose their prices, and experts are optimistic the changes will make the data more helpful in identifying less expensive providers.   1 was the deadline for hospitals to make the changes to their files.  

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STAT+: UnitedHealth continues making stealthy deals, pushing deeper into medical care as scrutiny mounts

STAT

  The sprawling conglomerate — which owns a major health insurance company, physician practices, a pharmacy benefit manager, and numerous other firms — acquired or created more than 250 subsidiaries in 2024. And just like in 2023, UnitedHealth has prioritized outpatient surgery centers. 

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High volume, high value hospital transactions kick off 2024

Fierce Healthcare

Hospitals and health systems have kicked off the calendar year with a flurry of merger and acquisition deals reflecting several different strategic trends driving providers in 2024. |

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The hospital pharmacy landscape in 2024

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

Tiene Bauters, PharmD PhD, Pharmacy Department , Ghent University Hospital in Belgium, offers her take on what’s hot on the horizon for hospital pharmacy in 2024. These will undoubtedly present great opportunities for hospital pharmacists and their teams.

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