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Nurse referrals to pharmacy

American Nurse

For example, incorporating nursing referrals to pharmacists as part of routine patient care can help reduce polypharmacy, pharmacy and healthcare costs, and adverse drug–drug reactions. doi:10.1136/bmj.m865 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Association ; 2021. Backhouse A, Ogunlayi F.

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Why COVID-19 patients who could most benefit from Paxlovid still aren’t getting it

American Nurse

Those who are receiving information more passively have no idea whether it’s important or harmful,” said Michael Barnett, a primary care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard, who led the JAMA Network study. The FDA is unable to comment,” spokesperson Chanapa Tantibanchachai said.

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