Background Maintenance treatment with long‐acting beta 2‐agonists and inhaled corticosteroids
(LABA/ICS) can relieve asthma symptoms and reduce the frequency of exacerbations, …

Background The prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is increasing.
Patients with COPD are treated with a variety of inhaled medications. Previous studies …

This study aimed to determine whether progress in developing bleeding risk estimation
tools for patients on oral anticoagulant therapy has been made since 2006 when we last …

It was the objective of this article to qualitatively review and evaluate the clinical prediction
rules (CPRs) available for estimating bleeding risk in patients commencing warfarin therapy. …

The Pharmacist Guide to Implementing Pharmaceutical Care is intended as a comprehensive
reference for pharmacists who want to incorporate pharmaceutical care into their practice. …

Background Current guidelines recommend therapeutic drug monitoring as a critical
component of valproic acid (VPA) therapy. Due to high protein binding, the active unbound (free) …

Background Pharmacists often overlook drug interaction alerts because of limitations in
clinical decision support (CDS) software systems intended to detect evidence-based, clinically …

Nevirapine and efavirenz are nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors used in
antiretroviral regimens to treat HIV infection. Therapeutic drug monitoring in patients on …

Objectives To evaluate whether implementation of symptom‐triggered administration of a
benzodiazepine protocol reduces the severity (total cumulative dose), duration, and …

Background: To reduce medication discrepancies (unintended differences between a patient's
outpatient and inpatient medication regimens), Canadian institutions have implemented …