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STAT+: Biden administration ignores calls to bolster hospital price transparency

STAT

The federal government will not modify regulations that dictate how hospitals publish their prices for consumers, ignoring pleas from patient advocates who have said hospitals still are not fully complying with the 3-year-old law. The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed an annual rule that sets payment rates for hospitals.

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Top tips for effective digital transformation and closed loop medicines management

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

S erious adverse drug events are unfortunately common in hospitals and can occur across all stages of the medication delivery process. In todays healthcare landscape, hospital pharmacists face a multitude of challenges that impact patient care, including operational inefficiencies, workforce shortages and compromised medication safety.

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Optimising hospital discharge encouraged in new repeat prescribing toolkit

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

New national guidance on repeat prescribing has been published in a bid to improve consistency and patient safety – and supporting hospital discharge with digital solutions and optimising use of the Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) forms a key part of this.

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Top 10 Journal Articles To Read During Your Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Rotation

IDStewardship

Memorizing 45+ page document is certainly not a reasonable expectation, but one can certainly walk away with an awareness of general concepts and themes which are relevant. Article 5: A Baker’s Dozen of Top Antimicrobial Stewardship Intervention Publications for Hospitalized Patients in 2021 Find it here.

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Pharmacy services in emergency departments: a comprehensive approach to improve patient care

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

In 2008, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists published a document outlining the activities that pharmacy services in EDs should provide, which was subsequently updated in 2021. Therefore, they should be included in the hospital’s emergency preparedness plans.

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Alnylam gets NICE backing for porphyria therapy Givlaari

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It can be given to patients who have the most debilitating form AHP, with four or more severe attacks a year, according to a final appraisal document from NICE, which reverses an earlier position that the drug should not be made available by the NHS. — British Porphyria Association (@BPA_Porphyria) October 21, 2021.

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Developing the EU’s first intestinal microbiota-based biologic

European Pharmaceutical Review

This randomised, open label-controlled multicentre clinical trial was conducted across 21 sites in Spain from 2021 to 2023. European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases: 2021 update on the treatment guidance document for Clostridioides difficile infection in adults. 2021; 27 (2): S1-S21.