There Must Be a Better Way

There Has to Be a Better Way!

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Communicating drug benefits and risks effectively: there must be a better way.

Be a Better Way The information that patients receive about the drugs we prescribe for them is in a sorry state. Patients are barraged by direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising in virtually every medium except cell phone ring-tones. In a health care system that rewards quantity over quality, rushed clinical encounters with physicians and pharmacists leave too little time to review drug risks and ...

Evaluating drug effects in the post-Vioxx world: there must be a better way.

The drug approval process must determine efficacy validly, detect risks prudently, and do both in a timely and efficient way. Several high-profile medication withdrawals in recent years have refocused attention on the difficulty of the US healthcare system in meeting these goals. Rofecoxib (Vioxx, Merck) was taken off the market in September 2004 after 5 years of use by 20 million people, when ...

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Medication reconciliation: is there a better way?

Why do so many hospitals find the task of medication reconciliation so difficult? In part, it's because so many people are involved in tracking the medications a patient takes before, during and after a hospital stay. "There are so many folks in this marriage that it's difficult to manage," says Chris Snyder, D.O., chief medical information officer at Peninsula Regional Medical Center, Salisbur...