ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE:In response to burgeoning drug costs,North Carolina (NC) Medicaid encouraged pharmacists and prescribers to develop collaborative programs to reduce drug …

Author Affiliations: Laboratory a high burden of illness cal decision making.8 of Clinical Investigation and forwhichmedicationsare The use of drugs with central nervous Clinical …

Effect of outpatient pharmacists’ non-dispensing roles on patient outcomes and prescribing patterns (Review) Nkansah N, Mostovetsky O, Yu C, Chheng T, Beney J, Bond CM, Bero L

Approximately one-third of drugs prescribed in the United States may be unneces-sary.1 Older adults use higher numbers of medications compared with younger age groups, primarily …

Methods: We performed a prospective observational study of randomly selected adults presenting to the emergency depart-ment over a 12-week period. Emergency department visits were …

1 Introduction Healthcare providers working with patients receiving pal-liative care are often faced with questions about the appropriateness of the continuation of drugs with preven-tative or …

ABSTRACT Background: The high cost and undesirable conse-quences of polypharmacy are well-recognized prob-lems among elderly long-term care (LTC) residents. Despite the …