Lynne Peeples
Just Round It: Hospital Cuts Costs With Drug Dose Rounding
#AHP2018: Dose rounding can help pharmacies control costs, especially for high-cost oncolytics.
DECEMBER 5, 2018
High Antibiotic Exposure May Raise Risk for Sepsis
Exposure to high-risk antibiotics, or to a large number of different antibiotics, during hospitalization may ...
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
Optimizing Nutrition for Intensive-Care Patients
San Antonio—When and how to feed a patient in the ICU are rarely straightforward decisions. A session at the ...
JULY 7, 2018
Tech Tweaks Sharpen Drug Error Detection
Several initiatives presented at the 2018 ASHP Summer Meetings, including tweaks to standard clinical decision ...
JULY 7, 2018
What FDA Is Finding During 503A Inspections
Phoenix—A comprehensive review of 483 forms identified some of the most common observations made by FDA ...
JUNE 20, 2018
Should You Pick a PICC?
An evidence-based tool for choosing the most appropriate vascular access device fills a former gap in guidance and ...
JUNE 12, 2018
Drug Shortages Fewer but More Dire, Experts Say
Las Vegas—Despite an overall decline in drug shortages, supply disruptions continue to pose a major challenge ...
MAY 15, 2018
Pharms, Patients May Benefit from New Rabies Prophylaxis
The FDA approved a higher potency formulation of human rabies immune globulin (RIG). Beginning in May, RIG will ...
APRIL 9, 2018
Meeting Drug Shortages, GI Fistulas and Other PN Challenges
Providing PN to adults with enterocutaneous fistulas or children with neurodevelopmental disorders—not to ...
APRIL 4, 2018
PRN Therapy for Opioids May Be a Problem
Minneapolis—Identifying first, second and third choices for as-needed, or pro re nata (PRN), orders of opioid ...
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
The Burden of Chronic Idiopathic Constipation
Minneapolis—Improved treatment options are needed to help patients with chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC) ...
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
Boosting Patient Safety in Real Time
Minneapolis—The rise of real-time health information technology may improve patient safety by helping ...
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
