Inside Best Practices for Hospital & Health-System Pharmacy: Positions and Guidance Documents of ASHP, find ASHP position statements and more than 70 guidance documents of varying scope that provide ongoing advice to practitioners and health-systems, to help improve the medication-use process, patient care and safety, patient outcomes, and quality of life.

Substantial content has been added or revised since the release of the last edition. New material in this edition covers formulary management, the role of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, pharmacy services to the emergency department, standards-based pharmacy practice, medication cost management, pharmacist-hospitalist collaboration, the roles and responsibilities of the pharmacy executive, use of bar-code technology, prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, and antithrombotic therapy in chronic atrial fibrillation.

Publishers: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)

Authors: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

Copyright: 2008

Pages: 632