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March 2024

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Volume 30, Issue 3

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Practice & Trends

Safeguarding the filling process using automated dispensing technology

Medication Safety

Safeguarding the filling process using automated dispensing technology

Recently, paroxetine 20 mg tablets were found in a prescription bottle along with the prescribed promethazine 25 mg tablets. Upon investigation, it was determined that multiple bottles of paroxetine had been added to the automated dispensing technology’s (e.g., vialdispensing robot) cell containing promethazine 25 mg.

Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Horsham, PA

The knowledge requirement in a case alleging False Claims Act violations

On The Docket

The knowledge requirement in a case alleging False Claims Act violations

In the July 2023 issue of Pharmacy Today, I summarized a pharmacy case from the Supreme Court of the United States in which the court ruled that the knowledge requirement in the federal False Claims Act (FCA) refers to “actual knowledge and subjective beliefs—not to what an objectively reasonable person may have known and believed.”

David B. Brushwood, BSPharm, JD

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GLP-1 agonists are changing the landscape of achieving optimum weight
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GLP-1 agonists are changing the landscape of achieving optimum weight

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People are increasingly using GLP-1 receptor agonists such as semaglutide to help facilitate their journey to weight loss and improved health, with a 40-fold increase in semaglutide use over the past 5 years.

Kristin Wiisanen PharmD, FAPhA, FCCP, Pharmacy Today editor in chief

Addressing second victim syndrome
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Association Perspective

Addressing second victim syndrome

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Six weeks ago, I had never heard of second victim syndrome (SVS). Then my phone rang, and I’ve been forever changed by the conversation.
 
Michael D. Hogue PharmD, FAPhA, FNAP, FFIP Executive vice president and CEO of APhA
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Bulletin Today

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CDC’s adult immunization schedule for 2024, which was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on January 12, 2024, includes updates for several vaccines, such as those for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), meningitis, mpox, and COVID-19.

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Drugs & Diseases

Managing motion sickness

OTCs Today

Managing motion sickness

Motion sickness can occur when riding in a car, train, airplane, boat, or even an amusement park ride. When your brain gets conflicting information from your eyes, inner ear, and body, the resulting confusion can cause dizziness, nausea, and vomiting.

Mary Warner

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Health Systems

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CPE

Pharmacist and CHW collaborations to bridge gaps in patient care
CPE

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Pharmacist and CHW collaborations to bridge gaps in patient care

The traditional health care model requires the patient to seek care by coming to the health system (e.g., office, hospital, pharmacy, etc.). Health care providers often do not represent or have the lived experiences of the communities they serve, which can lead to overt and implicit bias within the health care system. These structural and political determinants of health further reinforce relationships that contribute to a problematic power dynamic that exacerbates long-standing health disparities primarily for communities who are underserved, notably Black, Indigenous, and people of color populations.

Jasmine D. Gonzalvo, PharmD, CDCES, FADCES

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