Pharmacist transcribing of drug histories to drug charts: a UK study

Drug Interaction and Pharmacist

The topic of drug-drug interactions has received a great deal of recent attention from the regulatory, scientific, and health care communities worldwide. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, antibiotics and, in particular, rifampin are common precipitant drugs prescribed in primary care practice. Drugs with a narrow therapeutic range or low therapeutic index are more likely to be the objects f...

Added value of pharmacist-acquired drug histories in an orthopaedic ward.

In Belgian hospitals, drug histories of patients taken on admission are generally collected by medical trainees, physicians and nurses. As errors in drug histories may lead to medication errors and adverse drug events, we aimed at comparing the data obtained by a clinical pharmacist with those obtained by the nurses in a surgical orthopaedic ward. In this four months study, 50 patients, with a ...

Practice spotlight: drug safety pharmacist.

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Drug comparison charts. Detailed, objective, comparative drug information.

Putting charts together Several clinicians and resources provide information for the comparison charts. At the outset, physicians provide information and identify current questions and controversies. In a review of therapy, program staff sort through original clinical trials, evidence-based reviews, recent overviews, and clinical guidelines and sift through information from drug databases (Micr...