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CDC Emphasizes Opioid Guideline is Voluntary and Should Support, Not Supplant, Patient Care

The FDA Law Blog

In addition, the guideline has been misapplied to cancer and palliative care patients, and there have been rapid opioid tapers without patient collaboration, rigid application of opioid dosage thresholds, application of opioid use for pain to opioid use disorder treatment, insurer and pharmacy duration limits, patient dismissals and abandonment.

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How Pharmacists Can Use Artificial Intelligence To Advance Their Practice: Insights From ChatGPT

IDStewardship

Patient Education and Adherence : AI chatbots or virtual assistants can be developed to provide patients with on-demand information about their medications, dosages, potential side effects, and adherence strategies. This empowers patients to make informed decisions and fosters better medication adherence.

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Connecting with Patients at Home

Pharmacy Is Right For Me

This empowers care providers with critical patient information. It also improves care coordination and eliminates communication gaps. It involves the training of community paramedics in performing some aspects of medication reconciliation. This patient received a 30-day supply of insulin before discharge.

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Leveraging Technology to Optimize Medication Therapy Management (MTM) Services

Digital Pharmacist

This complexity could involve taking medications with specific timing or dosage requirements, dealing with potential drug interactions, or experiencing side effects. Pharmacy Program: Some pharmacies offer MTM services through patient care programs they have created to assist patients with complex medication regimens.

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5 reasons you should become a pharmacy technician

The Checkup by Singlecare

Pharmacies would crumble without the assistance of pharmacy techs in managing inventory, interacting with patients, and assisting pharmacists with dispensing medications safely and accurately. These highly trained professionals help drive patient care and ensure the pharmacy operates smoothly.

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12 Medications With Off-Label Uses

BuzzRx

Off-label drugs are approved drugs prescribed for an indication, a patient population, a dose, or a dosage form that has not been approved through the usual FDA approval process. Given in a dosage form that is not FDA-approved. We will also list some common examples of off-label drug use. What is off-label drug use?

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Antimicrobial Stewardship in Turkey – A Clinical Pharmacist’s Perspective

IDStewardship

We demonstrated that a pharmacist-driven antifungal stewardship program improved the quality of antifungal therapy and patient care in an institution where the use of systemic antifungals is restricted to the approval of ID physicians. For my doctoral thesis, we formed an antifungal stewardship team. The publication can be found here.

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