Clik here to view.
…pssssssst… your patients are on drugs.
These are your patients: These are your patients on drugs: They look the same, don’t they? That’s because nearly all of your patients – young or old, athletes or critically ill – use some substance...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Your patients might not know what you think they do about their medications
There’s an interesting and informative medical blog out there called Clinical Cases and Images: Casesblog that I follow in my RSS reader and it recently pointed me to a paper published in the Archives...
View ArticleClik here to view.
These are 10 you should know
What medications are most commonly taken by patients in your practice? If you can’t name 5 of them, you might want to compile some data and figure out what’s in your top 10. Then, make sure clinicians...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Twelve trillion, four hundred forty billion…
© Pharmacopoeia, The British Museum Does that number mean anything to you? Probably not, and that’s probably OK. But should it? Probably, and here’s why. That number is an estimate, a very rough...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Adverse drug events in the ICU – do they happen and do they matter?
Physical Therapists in Intensive Care With all the talk lately about early mobilization in the ICU (a recent systematic review, Amy Pawlik’s standing room only presentation at CSM 2012), it’s evident...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Oh, the Medicines You’ll Take!
An Update on Pediatric Drug Utilization Drugs aren’t just for grown ups, but it would appear that kids are being prescribed fewer medications than they used to be back in the day, all the way back in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NMEs of 2012
Before much more of 2013 slips by, here’s a review of the newly-FDA approved drugs of 2012. More specifically, we’re talking about NMEs or “new molecular entities”, as opposed to old drugs repackaged...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Antibiotics for everyone!
A report this week in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that, whether you knew it or not, lots (really, lots) of your patients are/were/will be taking antibiotics.1 Patients might not...
View Article
