Archive for February 2013
Pharmacists Addressing Hospital Readmissions
Did you know that one in five Medicare patients is readmitted within thirty days of a hospital discharge? Two key factors contributing to patients being readmitted are patient failure to fill prescriptions post hospital discharge and medication misadventures resulting from patients being unprepared to manage the medications at home. Historically, there has been very little integration…
Read MoreMedication Therapy Management: What is it?
Medication related problems and medication mismanagement result in an estimated 1.5 million preventable adverse events each year. Pharmacists, the medication experts, are uniquely positioned to proactively identify the potential medication related problems, mismanagement issues and medication errors through their involvement in medication therapy management (MTM) programs. MTM describes the broad range of health care services…
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