I’m very humbled and honored to have been selected to give this year’s John W. Webb Lecture. I would like to thank the ASHP Section of Pharmacy Practice Managers and Bill Gouveia and Dean Jack Reynolds of the School of Pharmacy at the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University for this honor. I’d also like to acknowledge the many individuals with whom I have had the pleasure to...

The current Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) guidelines recommend a vancomycin serum trough concentration of 15 to 20 mg/L in patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bloodstream infection (BSI). The objective of this study was to evaluate the mortality difference in MRSA BSI pre and post hospital-...

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) believes that medication safety is a fundamental responsibility of all members of the profession of pharmacy. For a medication safety program to succeed, however, it is essential that there be an innovative leader to set a vision and direction, identify opportunities to improve the medication-use system, and lead implementation of error-p...

In 1990, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) published its revised technical assistance bulletin (TAB) on handling cytotoxic and hazardous drugs. The information and recommendations contained in that document were current to June 1988. Continuing reports of workplace contamination and concerns for health care worker safety prompted the Occupational Safety and Health Adminis...

antibiotic guidelines have proven to be a simple and effective intervention to guide the choice of appropriate empiric antibiotic regimens. the goals of this study were to evaluate adherence to guidelines and streamlining of antibiotics. hospital records of hospitalized patients in infectious diseases ward imam khomeini hospital, tehran, iran, from may 2008 to september 2009 were reviewed. adhe...

Postgraduate year one (PGY1) and postgraduate year two (PGY2) residencies serve to develop pharmacists into skillful clinicians who provide advanced patient-centered care in various general and specialized areas of pharmacy practice. Pharmacy residencies are a minimum requirement for many clinical pharmacy positions, as well as for positions in academia. The role of clinical pharmacists typical...

Abstract Heat pumps are increasingly popular in individual buildings and could help to meet expectations of ambitious energy-environmental European goals until 2050. This paper presents the results energy simulations conducted TRNSYS for a single-family building depending on its location selected cities. For each city, air source heat pump (ASHP) was considered as an heating cooling building, t...

The American Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists’ (ASHP) policy process—especially during its annual policy week—forms the basis of ASHP’s advocacy efforts and outreach throughout the year. This policy process is targeted to those in positions that can affect the health of the nation. As the Chief Professional Officer for the Pharmacy Category in the U.S. Public Health Service, I have a respons...

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and the Society for Hospital Medicine (SHM) believe that the rapidly emerging hospitalist model of inpatient care offers new and significant opportunities to optimize patient care through collaboration among hospitalists, hospital pharmacists (hereinafter, “pharmacists”), and other health care providers. The emerging model of care allows ...