Hospital Pharmacy Europe

MARCH 18, 2025

Here, speaking to Gerry Hughes, she shares her insights on current clinical pharmacy challenges around expansion and integration of hospital pharmacists, and the exciting trajectory this branch of pharmacy is set to undertake in the years ahead. Over previous decades, there have been several inflection points in its progress.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

. | The cross-market deal has satisfied "all regulatory reviews" and will yield an integrated, academic nonprofit system comprised of 28 hospitals, according to a Wednesday announcement of the organizations' definitive agreement.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

However, despite the relative importance of QIs there were previously no universally accepted definition for use in research and practice, resulting in confusion amongst healthcare providers and researchers. Quality indicators redefined The literature review identified a total of 182 quality indicator definitions from 174 articles.

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STAT

OCTOBER 3, 2022

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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STAT

JANUARY 31, 2024

” said Ameet Sarpatwari, the assistant director of the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Ideally, he said, the FDA should be able to both stay on top of safety concerns and avoid unnecessarily restricting access to drugs. “Are we at the right balance?

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The Checkup by Singlecare

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Hosam Hmoud, MD , a cardiology fellow at Northwells Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, says semaglutide also has an important anti-inflammatory component that helps improve outcomes in patients with cardiovascular disease, such as heart failure, coronary artery disease (CAD), and stroke.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

RECOVERY (Randomised Evaluation of COVid-19 thERapY) trial is being conducted in NHS hospitals and has already demonstrated the benefits of dexamethasone as a treatment for COVID-19, showing the cheap steroid cut recovery times and reduced mortality.

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Pharmacy Is Right For Me

JULY 23, 2024

Growing up, I spent a lot of time in hospitals with my brother, who has a chronic illness. The Best Part: People My favorite part of pharmacy school is definitely the people. I’ve always been interested in healthcare. Their belief in my potential motivates me to push myself and strive for excellence.

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The Checkup by Singlecare

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Although amlodipine doesnt typically impact your heart rate, other antihypertensive medications can, according to Hosam Hmoud, MD, a cardiology fellow at Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, New York. Heart rate can vary, with some individuals having a higher resting heart rate and others a lower, says Dr. Rabii.

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pharmaphorum

APRIL 8, 2021

Brain fog is a commonly reported feature of ‘long COVID’ along with physical symptoms like extreme fatigue, chest tightness, severe headaches and limb pain, a syndrome that is not yet fully understood and still has no universally agreed definition.

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Pharmacy Is Right For Me

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Residents develop skills and competence in providing pharmaceutical care across diverse hospital settings, accelerating growth beyond entry-level experience. Navigating the Challenges Working in pediatrics is definitely challenging. A residency involves one to two years of paid postgraduate clinical training supervised by a preceptor.

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IDStewardship

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

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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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Nevertheless, while there was some preliminary data which suggested that the drug retained anti-viral activity against several COVID-19 variants, even among those who had been vaccinated, more definitive data were required. PANORAMIC was a huge, randomised trial, recruiting over 26,000 patients and assigning nearly 13,000 to lagevrio. .’

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Professor Andreas Reif is Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital, Frankfurt. He spoke to Hospital Pharmacy Europe about the management of treatment-resistant depression and innovations in the management of the condition. How is ‘treatment-resistant’ depression defined?

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European Pharmaceutical Review

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Nasal spray could help prevent depression relapse The post ECNP 2023: new esketamine NS safety data for depression appeared first on European Pharmaceutical Review.

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Omnicell

JANUARY 10, 2023

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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The Checkup by Singlecare

MARCH 12, 2024

What’s considered “normal” bowel movements and the definition of constipation and diarrhea differs from patient to patient, so the definition of alleviating those concerns varies as well. That’s for good reason, says Rishi Naik, MD, MSCI , gastroenterologist and assistant professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

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The deprescribing.org Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

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.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Oral antivirals are highly anticipated because they could be given to patients at home and prevent them developing more severe symptoms, reducing the burden on hospitals during the crisis. “Merck has shared these additional analyses with the FDA and they will be presented to the FDA’s Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee on Nov.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

JANUARY 26, 2023

The study’s primary efficacy endpoints were based on two definitions of RSV-lower respiratory tract disease with either two or three or more symptoms. The post mRNA-1345 effective against RSV-associated lower respiratory tract infections in older adults appeared first on Hospital Pharmacy Europe.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The term axial spondyloarthritis embraces two forms: those with radiographic and non-radiographic disease, i.e., where patients are symptomatic but have no evidence of definitive damage on pelvic radiographs. Efficacy and safety of bimekizumab in axial spondyloarthritis: results of two parallel phase 3 randomised controlled trials.

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Therapeutics Education Collaboration

AUGUST 17, 2024

So have a listen as it may decrease your risk but it will definitely increase your understanding. 2023.32793 3) Lipid levels in patients hospitalized with coronary artery disease: an analysis of 136,905 hospitalizations in Get With The Guidelines Am Heart J 2009;157:111-7.e2 2023;6(9):e2332793. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.32793

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

MAY 22, 2023

However, previous studies of spironolactone for acne have been very small and there was no definitive proof that it actually worked.’ The post Study confirms spironolactone safe and effective for treating acne in women appeared first on Hospital Pharmacy Europe.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

MARCH 16, 2023

The study presented at ACC/WCC tried to answer this question and researchers used information from data held in the UK Biobank and identified individuals meeting their their definition of a KD diet, i.e., no more than 25% of total daily calories from carbohydrates and more than 45% from fat.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The same resistant infection can have drastically different consequences in humans and animals, depending on whether it is acquired in hospital or outside of it, in a high-income country or a low-income one.”. “There are also challenges related to the complex adaptive nature of the problem.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

MAY 2, 2024

First author Professor Pascal Demoly, professor of pulmonology and head of department at the University Hospital of Montpellier, France, and co-authors said that they found a 36% reduction overall in the risk of new asthma events in patients treated with SLIT-liquid compared with controls.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

APRIL 12, 2023

of the population depending on whether the definition includes wheezing or ever wheeze. BMJ Open Respir Res 2023 The post Healthy sleep pattern reduces risk of developing asthma appeared first on Hospital Pharmacy Europe. Asthma is a chronic respiratory inflammatory disease and which globally, has been estimated to affect between 9.8

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

It is being given in hospitals and clinics for the treatment of mental health, neurological and pain disorders outside the FDA-approved indications. This partnership with Vitruvias prepares the way for a definitive agreement under which PharmaTher will handle the regulation, production and supply of Ketarx.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 5, 2021

The prospect of overwhelming hospital ICU capacity was the primary driver of lockdowns, as governments sought to “flatten the curve” and manage infections. Certain countries were also forced to respond by building new capacity-dedicated facilities for severe COVID-19 patients, like the largely unused “Nightingale” hospitals in the UK.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In a letter to The Daily Telegraph newspaper with AZ’s head of biopharma R&D Mene Pangalos, Soriot write that the UK is only a few weeks away from having a definitive answer on whether two doses of COVID-19 vaccines can provide “continued, protective immunity.”

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The Checkup by Singlecare

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

You can definitely recover from strep throat without antibiotics,” says Marc J. Grella, MD , a pediatrician at Massachusetts General Hospital. Here we speak with healthcare providers about when medication is needed, some natural ways to soothe your symptoms, and what to know about the risks of antibiotics for strep throat.

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 30, 2021

For example, the company recently launched Rare Answers , a system of innovative and sustainable tools that are designed to help shorten the diagnostic journey for children with a rare disease – developed in collaboration with leading children’s hospitals and technology and data science companies.

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IDStewardship

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I am definitely planning on doing this for a long time. I am always looking for topics and looking for guests so if you have any potential topics, you can always reach out via social media or via e-mail but definitely share the podcast and let them know that it is out there (information above).

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

This enriched phenotypic data is enhancing our understanding of disease variants and delivering insights that can help to empower hospitals to provide the best possible early treatment and care decisions. When a condition is not known, treatment often necessitates specialist staff, hospital space and equipment.

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The Checkup by Singlecare

AUGUST 29, 2024

“Famotidine is a medication used to treat heartburn (acid reflux),” says Kecia Gaither, MD , double board-certified OB-GYN and maternal-fetal medicine, director of Perinatal Services/Maternal Fetal Medicine at NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln in the Bronx. “It It functions to reduce the amount of stomach acid that is produced.”

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European Pharmaceutical Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

For instance, there is no definition in the proposed Directive of when a medicinal product is to be considered launched. Neither proposal includes a definition of what constitutes unmet medical need. However, Article 81.2

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