The Clinician - Hospice Pharmacy Newsletter

Volume 8, Issue 1

Diabetes Management Decisions in Hospice

Constipation: Pitfalls in Management for Hospice Patients

Volume 7, Issue 4

Review of the Proton-Pump Inhibitors (PPIs)

Volume 7, Issue 3

Guidelines for Covered Medications in Hospice Patients (Part 2)

Hepatic Encephalopathy in Hospice Patients: Shoud Rifaximin be Covered?

Volume 7, Issue 2

Guidelines for Covered Medications in Hospice Patients (Part 1)

Management of COPD in Hospice

Volume 7, Issue 1

Medication Management of COPD in Hospice

Resipratory Drugs: cost comparison

Volume 6, Issue 4

Dyspnea Management

ABH Topical Gel Ineffective?

Drug Shortage Problems

Volume 6, Issue 3

Fentanyl Nasal Spray:  Lazanda

Antidepressants Not Effective in Dementia Patients

REMS: Update on Opioid Risk Evaluation & Mitigation Strategies

Volume 6, Issue 2

Roflumilast: New Drug Review

End Stage Dementia and the Role of Drug Treatment

Volume 6, Issue 1

GnRH Analogs and Advanced Prostate Cancer

Volume 5, Issue4

Medical Marijuana and Hospice

Exalgo: old drug, new dosage-form

Pediatric Palliative Care, Part 3:  Palliative Symptom Management

Volume 5, Issue 3

Sublingual nitroglycerin: proper use

Volume 5, Issue 2

Pediatric Palliative Care, Part 2:  Pain Management

Volume 5, Issue 1

Pediatric Palliative Care, Part 1: Current Concepts in Drug Therapy

Morphine and Renal Impairment

Volume 4, Issue 4

Drug Disposal Guidelines (Latest FDA update)

Dementia Drugs Linked to Serious Adverse Events

Onsolis: a new fentanyl dosage-form

FDA’s Opioid Risk Evaluation & Mitigation Strategies (REMs)

Volume 4, Issue 3

FDA Reviews Acetaminophen Toxicity

Baclofen for Cancer Pain

New Drug: Tapentadol (Nucynta)

Plavix and PPI Drug Interaction (re-visited)

JCAHO’s National Patient Safety Goal on Anticoagulation:How does this Affect Hospice?

Volume 4, Issue 2

Drug Shortages: Morphine, Oxycodone, Hydromorphone

Statins Offer No Protection from Dementia

DEA Actions May Compromise Patients in SNFs

Volume 4, Issue 1

New On-line Education Course: Drugs, Delirium, and the Hospice Patient

Problems with Plavix and the PPI’s

Some New Drugs Approved in 2008

Subutex and Suboxone for Severe Pain

Discontinuing Drugs: Which Ones Need to be Taperred?