Category Archives: general

Antibiotics for everyone!

Posted on April 13, 2013 by pharminpt

A report this week in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that, whether you knew it or not, lots (really, lots) of your patients are/were/will be taking antibiotics.1 Patients might not consider these medications relevant to their rehabilitation, but … Continue reading →

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NMEs of 2012

Posted on January 8, 2013 by pharminpt

Before much more of  2013 slips by, here’s a review of the newly-FDA approved drugs of 2012. More specifically, we’re talking about NMEs or “new molecular entities”, as opposed to old drugs repackaged for new indications or reformulated for new routes … Continue reading →

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Oh, the Medicines You’ll Take!

Posted on June 28, 2012 by pharminpt

An Update on Pediatric Drug Utilization Drugs aren’t just for grown ups, but it would appear that kids are being prescribed fewer medications than they used to be back in the day, all the way back in 2002.1 The data, published … Continue reading →

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Adverse drug events in the ICU – do they happen and do they matter?

Posted on June 22, 2012 by pharminpt

Physical Therapists in Intensive Care With all the talk lately about early mobilization in the ICU (a recent systematic review, Amy Pawlik’s standing room only presentation at CSM 2012), it’s evident that physical therapists and other rehabilitation professionals are only … Continue reading →

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Twelve trillion, four hundred forty billion…

Posted on January 12, 2012 by pharminpt

Does that number mean anything to you? Probably not, and that’s probably OK. But should it? Probably, and here’s why. That number is an estimate, a very rough estimate, of the number of medication doses, both prescription and over the … Continue reading →

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These are 10 you should know

Posted on May 5, 2011 by pharminpt

What medications are most commonly taken by patients in your practice? If you can’t name 5 of them, you might want to compile some data and figure out what’s in your top 10. Then, make sure clinicians in your practice … Continue reading →

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Your patients might not know what you think they do about their medications

Posted on March 24, 2011 by pharminpt

There’s an interesting and informative medical blog out there called Clinical Cases and Images: Casesblog that I follow in my RSS reader and it recently pointed me to a paper published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in 2006.[1] The … Continue reading →

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…pssssssst… your patients are on drugs.

Posted on January 5, 2011 by pharminpt

These are your patients: These are your patients on drugs: They look the same, don’t they? That’s because nearly all of your patients – young or old, athletes or critically ill – use some substance that changes their physiology. That … Continue reading →

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