background: as a major responsibility, health authorities must control rational prescription of drugs (rud). a way to analyze the regional status of drug prescription is the who’s recommended indices. the purpose of the study was to determine the status of drug prescriptions in pharmacies of healthcare centers under the authority of tehran university of medical sciences based on the who indices...

147. An antibiotic stewardship program in the emergency department decreased piperacillin-tazobactam use and increased guideline-concordant antibiotic prescribing for uncomplicated cystitis Michelle Haas, MD; Bryan Knepper, MPH, MSc; Kevin Kaucher, PharmD; Kati Shihadeh, PharmD; Jeffrey Sankoff, MD; Timothy Jenkins, MD; Medicine/ Infectious Diseases, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO; Me...

1 Department of Pharmacy Administration, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. 2 Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. 3 Department of Veterans Affairs, Pharmacy Benefits Management Strategic Healthcare Group, Hines, IL. 4 Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Veterans Health Adm...

1 Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C. USA 2 Department of Pharmacy Sciences, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE. USA 3 National Center for Natural Products Research, and Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Mississippi, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of...

Implementing Pharmacy Informatics in College Curricula: The AACP Technology in Pharmacy Education and Learning Special Interest Group Ross E. Vanderbush, PharmD, H. Glenn Anderson, Jr, PharmD, William K. Fant, PharmD, Brad S. Fujisaki, BS, Patrick M. Malone, PharmD, Paul L. Price, PharmD, Maria C. Pruchnicki, PharmD, Teresa L. Sterling, PharmD, Kara D. Weatherman, PharmD, Karl G. Williams, BS P...

209. Results of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Intervention Involving Surgical Subspecialty Patients Kati Shihadeh, PharmD; Michelle Haas, MD; Philip Mehler, MD; Marcia Eustaquio, MD; Timothy Jenkins, MD; University of Colorado Skagg’s School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aurora, CO; Acute Care Pharmacy, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO; Medicine/Infectious Diseases, Denver Hea...

Stinging Nettle Cream for Osteoarthritis Keith Rayburn, MD, is a physician in the Department of Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, California. Eric Fleischbein, PharmD, is a pharmacist in the Department of Pharmacy Services, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Jessica Song, PharmD, is a pharmacist in the Department of Pharmacy Services, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, and ...

Keith Rayburn, MD, is a physician in the Department of Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, California. Eric Fleischbein, PharmD, is a pharmacist in the Department of Pharmacy Services, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Jessica Song, PharmD, is a pharmacist in the Department of Pharmacy Services, Santa Clara VaUey Medical Center, and an instructor at the University ofthe Paci...

1Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy, Clinical Translational Science Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 3Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pi...

777. Combination Vancomycin/Cefazolin (VAN/CFZ) for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Bloodstream Infections (BSI) Trang D. Trinh, Pharm.D.; Evan J. Zasowski, PharmD, BCPS; Abdalhamid M. Lagnf, M.P.H.; Sahil Bhatia, B.S.; Sorabh Dhar, MD; Ryan Mynatt, PharmD; Jason M. Pogue, PharmD and Michael J. Rybak, PharmD, MPH, PhD; Anti-Infective Research Laboratory, Department of Pharmac...