( TRHC ) (NASDAQ:TRHC) today announced the organizations have partnered to provide TRHC s market-leading Bayesian Dosing platform, DoseMeRx™, to pharmacy professionals in small and rural hospitals. TRHC s DoseMeRx is the most efficient and cost-effective means for small and rural hospitals to comply with the revised guideline for monitoring vancomycin in the treatment of serious methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections.
In March 2020, the consensus vancomycin dosing guidelines from four leading pharmacy and infectious diseases professional societies – ASHP, Infectious Disease Society of America, Pediatric Infectious Disease Society, and Society of Infectious Disease Pharmacists – were published online in the
American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy (AJHP). One of the biggest changes was the recommendation to move away from trough-based dosing to Area Under the Curve (AUC)-based monitoring and dosing of vancomycin in adults and children who have su
This article was originally published December 16, 2020
on PSQH by Megan Maddox, PharmD, BCPS, CDE
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from the HCPro book Medication Reconciliation: Practical Strategies and Tools for Compliance. Learn more at https://hcmarketplace.com/medication-reconciliation-practical-strategies-tools-for-compliance.
With the widespread implementation of the electronic medical record (EMR) and the ability to trigger that reconciliation gets completed at various stages of a patient’s healthcare encounter, the focus of medication reconciliation has now turned to how to collect the most accurate and updated medication list on our patients on admission or during clinic visits.
In addition, organizations are focusing on opportunities to ensure patients are being discharged with the medication list the provider intended. What has been identified over the past decade by healthcare organizations working on med rec is a patient’s medication list is ever changing a
Could the invisible enemy be at the door again?
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By Magnus Onyibe
At a point, the second wave of the dreaded coronavirus pandemic seemed so farfetched. But with the number of cases of covid-19 pandemic carriers ramping up as reflected by the increase in the count of people testing positive for a disease that was thought to be on its way out, Coronavirus has once again crossed our defense line and infiltrated our ranks like the invisible enemy that it truly is.
The above reality is based on the alarm recently raised by the trio of Secretary to The Federal Government, SGF, Boss Mustafa, minister of health , Osagie Ehanire and Nigerian Center for Disease Control, NCDC, director general , Chikwe lheakwazu.