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STAT+: Epic overhauls popular sepsis algorithm criticized for faulty alarms

STAT

Corporate documents obtained by STAT show that Epic is now recommending that its model be trained on a hospital’s own data before clinical use, a major shift aimed at ensuring its predictions are relevant to the actual patient population a hospital treats.

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Hospital pharmacist-led re-evaluation of medication errors: a pilot study

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

Karl-Johan Lindner and Marie Halvarsson, from the pharmacy at Västerås Hospital in Sweden, describe a new approach to improve the categorisation of medication errors that uses the skills of hospital pharmacists to reclassify reported incidents based on a given medication process. One million injections or infusions and 1.7

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Why Is Nobody Using Your Guidelines? – Insights On Designing Useful Guidelines For Infectious Diseases

IDStewardship

which has to do with antimicrobial stewardship programs in hospitals. One great thing The Joint Commission includes in their update is element of performance 10 (which is new) and requires hospitals to allocate financial resources for staffing and information technology to support the antibiotic stewardship program.

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Study finds cardiac day ward pharmacists can optimise medication management

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

In a quality improvement project evaluating the role of clinical pharmacists in cardiac day wards , researchers sought to explore the extent to which pharmacists could optimise medicine management and facilitate implementation and communication of any medication changes at hospital discharge to primary care physicians. MRPs per patient.

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The 20 Key Moments in the 340B Program's 30-Year History

Omnicell

Interestingly, the 340B law was actually included in a veterans healthcare bill (the Veterans Health Care Act) that also established a separate drug pricing program for veterans hospitals. It also raised the DSH payment cap for some rural and small urban hospitals to 12%. 340B providers expressed significant concern.

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Professional Standards for Homecare Services updated by RPS

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

Originally published in 2013 , the standards aim to ensure consistent, high-quality care for patients receiving medicines and associated services in their own homes that would previously have been supplied in hospitals. The post Professional Standards for Homecare Services updated by RPS appeared first on Hospital Pharmacy Europe.

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Interview #6: Hospital admission as an opportunity for deprescribing?

The deprescribing.org Blog

Recently the Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy (CJHP) published an article where the question “Should hospital admission be used as an opportunity for deprescribing in older adults?” Access to what is described as a “controlled” environment definitely sets the stage for success. was fiercely debated.