Pharmacists are the custodians and dispensers of medications and are faced with the task of assessing prescriptions and making decisions about the allocation of these products. This paper seeks to 1) highlight some of the ethical challenges of dispensing hydroxychloroquine by pharmacists during the CO...
Palliative Medicine Clinical Pharmacist Specialist and PGY2 Pain Management & Palliative Care Residency Program Director at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, James Cancer Hospital, shares insights into palliative care and common challenges faced by pharmacists treating patients with complicat...
Yet, the lack of educational and professional preparedness and insufficient financial and human resources, regarded as necessary to meet the needs of a stigmatised client group, formed barriers for effective service delivery. Conclusions In order to support pharmacists and drug-store workers in ...
Testing in pilots the stepped-care approach before any extension, as in England [49], would help to overcome some of the challenges faced by the policy. In Australia, where the program was rolled out nationally without testing, there was not enough evidence of the improvement of patients’ ou...
Zahra Mahmoudjafari, PharmD, MBA, BCOP, FHOPA, and a panel of pharmacists explore pharmacist roles in myelofibrosis care, treatment challenges, patient outcomes, and pharmacist responsibilities within interdisciplinary teams.
This was exacerbated by a lack of adequate numbers of pharmacists and pharmacist’s assistants who could not be recruited because of lack of funds. Furthermore, the information that needed to be captured on DHIS had to be manually delivered first to the district offices for processing prior to...
Healthcare providers and pharmacists can use these APIs to automate prescription submission to ensure quick access to clinical data and patient health records stored in EHR systems. By connecting cloud healthcare APIs, these solutions can facilitate data sharing between healthcare organizations and pharma...
Healthcare professionals include doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, therapists (such as physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech therapists), medical laboratory scientists, radiologists, and other allied health professionals. Answer and ...
Legislative and regulatory activity is also required to address the challenges faced by suppliers, distributors, and providers due to drug and product shortages. Specifically, the FDA should: • Allow the outsourcing of 503B compounders to continue producing drugs based on specific criteria, such as...
URSP has expanded to include all patients of the health system in multiple therapeutic areas, such as cardiology, dermatology, gastroenterology, hepatology, neurology, oncology, pulmonology, and rheumatology, and is now staffed by 18 pharmacists and 23 pharmacy technicians. Each patient is assigned a...