Pharmacy News & Articles

1 New Oral Anticoagulants: Comparative Pharmacology with Vitamin K Antagonists Clinical Pharmacokinetics, February 11, 2013

2 Application of the STOPP/START criteria: a systematic review of the prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing in older adults, and evidence of clinical, humanistic and economic impact Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, April 10, 2013    Review Article

3 A systematic review and meta-analysis of pharmacist-led fee-for-services medication review British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, April 24, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine    Review Article

4 Clinical Update on the Management of Atrial Fibrillation Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy, April 9, 2013

5 Role of the Pharmacist in Achieving Performance Measures to Improve the Prevention and Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy, April 9, 2013

6 Purchasing medications online safely American Pharmacists Association News, April 5, 2013    Free full text

7 Review of Economics and Cost-Effectiveness Analyses of Anticoagulant Therapy for Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation in the US Annals of Pharmacotherapy, April 22, 2013    Review Article

8 Antiarrhythmic Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation U.S. Pharmacist, February 21, 2013    Free full text    Review Article

9 Cumulative Burden of Oral Corticosteroid Adverse Effects and the Economic Implications of Corticosteroid Use in Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Clinical Therapeutics, April 26, 2013

10 Comparative benefits of statins in the primary and secondary prevention of major coronary events and all-cause mortality: a network meta-analysis of placebo-controlled and active-comparator trials European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, March 7, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine    Review Article

11 Association between adherence to concomitant proton pump inhibitor therapy in current NSAID users and upper gastrointestinal complications European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, April 18, 2013

12 Cost-effectiveness of efavirenz vs rilpivirine in HIV patients initiating first-line combination antiretroviral therapy Journal of Medical Economics , April 11, 2013

13 The employee absenteeism costs of inflammatory bowel disease: evidence from us national survey data Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, April 16, 2013    Review Article

14 A Possible New Option for Migraine Management: Agomelatine Clinical Neuropharmacology, April 3, 2013

15 Sensory Organ Pain: Eye, Ear, Oral, Dental, and Throat Pain U.S. Pharmacist, April 9, 2013    Free full text

16 A Comparison of Heart Rate Changes Associated with Levalbuterol and Racemic Albuterol in Pediatric Cardiology Patients Annals of Pharmacotherapy, April 26, 2013    Review Article

17 Statin Use and Risk of Atrial Fibrillation or Flutter: A Population-based Case-Control Study American Journal of Therapeutics, April 10, 2013

18 Moving Oral Contraceptives Over-the-Counter as a Strategy to Reduce Unintended Pregnancy Annals of Internal Medicine, March 26, 2013    Review Article

19 Usefulness of a selective neutrophil elastase inhibitor, sivelestat, in acute lung injury patients with sepsis Drug Design, Development and Therapy, April 18, 2013    Free full text

20 Statins decrease all-cause mortality only in CKD patients not requiring dialysis therapy - a meta-analysis of 11 randomized controlled trials involving 21,295 participants Pharmacological Research , April 3, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine