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Significant Knowledge Gap Exists in Patient Awareness of Psoriatic Disease

Drug Topics

This led researchers to explore a specific region of the world in order to better document patients’ understanding of the disease. The prevalence of psoriasis in the Gulf countries is not well-documented; however, recent studies suggested that psoriasis affects 0.5%-5.3%

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Piloting the PQA Specialty Pharmacy Turnaround Time Quality Measure

PQA

The use of specialty medicine has grown rapidly in recent decades, fueling parallel growth in the number of specialty pharmacies that serve patients who are prescribed specialty medications. Results of this work were published in the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy in October 2022.

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Celebrating PQA in 2024!

PQA

Today, we published the 2024 PQA Annual Report, which documents our progress towards our strategic goals. Successfully piloting pharmacy measure concepts focused on blood pressure and A1c improvement and control. Successfully piloting PQA’s endorsed measure focused on specialty pharmacy turnaround time.

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Five for Friday March 8: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

PQA

Ensuring the quality of medication use is critically important for rare disease patients, payers, clinicians, specialty pharmacies and everyone with a role in the care process. If you have questions or would like to be involved, email us at Communications@PQAalliance.org. prior to the PQA Leadership Summit.

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Participate in the Measure Development Process in 2023

PQA

The Specialty Pharmacy Abandonment Rate TEP will define a measure around primary abandonment rate of specialty pharmacy prescriptions. The Health Equity TEP will review how PQA measures can be a tool to foster health equity by producing recommendations related to stratification for quality measures.

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Corticophobia Can Significantly Impact AD Management Strategies

Drug Topics

TCSs are the first-line anti-inflammatory treatment and their effectiveness and safety have been well documented.” The next step consists of treatment with topical anti-inflammatory therapies. Above all other medication classes and formulations, TCSs have been deemed as the most important pharmacotherapy in the treatment of AD.

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Research Suggests Vitamin D Deficiency Is a Risk Factor for Autism

Pharmacy Times

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) impacts social communication, behavior, and daily functioning. SHOW MORE Discover how vitamin D supplementation may reduce Autism Spectrum Disorder symptoms and improve overall functioning in children with ASD. 4 Despite promising findings, evidence remains mixed.