{"title":"A continuous quality improvement program for phenytoin i.v.","authors":"D Matanin, D Cutrell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The P & T Committee at Latrobe (Pa.) Area Hospital conducted a drug use review of i.v. phenytoin, which lead to revised guidelines for the use of i.v. loading doses of this agent. The reasons for the study, its results, and the actions taken are presented below.</p>","PeriodicalId":76912,"journal":{"name":"Hospital formulary","volume":"29 3","pages":"212-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21004033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medication noncompliance: an issue to consider in the drug selection process.","authors":"J A Feldman, P L DeTullio","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patient medication noncompliance is a major public health problem that represents a significant cost to our health care system. Health care professionals--through counseling programs, and the pharmaceutical industry--through various improvements in drug products, have helped to improve medication noncompliance. Yet, additional research needs to be conducted on noncompliant behavior and into methods to improve it. All health care professionals, particularly those involved in selecting and guiding drug therapy decisions, need to be made aware of the costs to the health care system that result from noncompliance.</p>","PeriodicalId":76912,"journal":{"name":"Hospital formulary","volume":"29 3","pages":"204-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21004032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1993 new drug approvals.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76912,"journal":{"name":"Hospital formulary","volume":"29 2","pages":"152-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to develop a successful DUE (drug usage evaluation) program: experience of a teaching medical center.","authors":"M O Cheung","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A drug usage evaluation (DUE) program was successfully implemented in a busy teaching medical center within 12 months of adding a full-time coordinator. The success of this program was due largely to its approval by hospital administration, the recruitment of a pharmacist with the necessary background, and the creation of a structure and process that encouraged participation by leaders of the medical staff. Although the primary objective of hiring the coordinator was to meet Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations requirements for accreditation, another achievement was confirmed cost savings. Techniques used in selecting DUE subjects and the steps taken in implementing and managing the program are presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":76912,"journal":{"name":"Hospital formulary","volume":"29 2","pages":"137-9, 142-3, 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Universal coverage, drug issues: how do competing health care reform bills compare?","authors":"B Gatty","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76912,"journal":{"name":"Hospital formulary","volume":"29 2","pages":"158, 157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The JCAHO Agenda for Change: what changes in pharmacy and P & T activities do you need to prepare for in 1994?","authors":"E C Doherty","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has made serious strides toward a more meaningful accreditation process through the development of the \"Agenda for Change.\" New, functionally oriented standards began to appear in the Accreditation Manual for Hospitals (AMH) in 1993. The greater effect of functionally oriented standards is occurring with the introduction of the 1994 AMH and will continue with the introduction of additional new standards in 1995. Discussed in this article are the JCAHO standards that are being introduced in 1994. These include further development of the director's responsibilities and medication use standards as well as new standards involving the assessment of patients and the management of information. Medication use indicators--which will become a required part of the accreditation process in 1996--are also presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":76912,"journal":{"name":"Hospital formulary","volume":"29 1","pages":"54-6, 58-60, 64 passim"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How might cost effectiveness, quality of life, and outcomes data be used by government regulators?","authors":"B Gatty","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76912,"journal":{"name":"Hospital formulary","volume":"29 1","pages":"70, 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changes in P & T Committee function, role of pharmacists under managed care, and more.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76912,"journal":{"name":"Hospital formulary","volume":"28 12","pages":"963, 967-8, 970"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21055147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drug usage evaluation: clarithromycin as sequential therapy.","authors":"C L Dempsey, T C Kaley, J Zenkel","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A drug usage evaluation (DUE) of the new macrolide antibiotic clarithromycin was conducted at Christ Hospital and Medical Center, an 824-bed community teaching hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois. The purpose of this DUE was to determine whether clarithromycin was being used as early sequential therapy following other parenteral antimicrobials as recommended by the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.</p>","PeriodicalId":76912,"journal":{"name":"Hospital formulary","volume":"28 12","pages":"999-1001"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinton's breakthrough drug committee: will it stifle new drug development?","authors":"B Gatty","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76912,"journal":{"name":"Hospital formulary","volume":"28 11","pages":"946, 945"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}