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The Guideline Development Group then finalises the recommendations and the National Collaboration Centre produces the final guideline. This is submitted to NICE to formally approve the guideline and issue the guidance to the NHS. [citation needed] To date NICE has produced more than 200 different guidelines. [27]
Drug utilization review refers to a review of prescribing, dispensing, administering and ingesting of medication. [1] This authorized, structured and ongoing review is related to pharmacy benefit managers. [2] Drug use/ utilization evaluation and medication utilization evaluations are the same as drug utilization review. [3]
[5] [6] A trial of community nurse prescribing took place and then the Secretary of State gave district nurses and health visitors prescribing powers from a Nuse Prescriber's Formulary in 1998. [7] By the 2010s, there were approximately 54,000 nurse and midwife prescribers in the UK. [3] [7]
A pharmacotherapy specialist is an individual who is specialized in administering and prescribing medication, and requires extensive academic knowledge in pharmacotherapy. [ 30 ] In the US, a pharmacist can gain Board Certification in the area of pharmacotherapy upon fulfilling eligibility requirements and passing a certification examination.
Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) is a program of the US Food and Drug Administration for the monitoring of medications with a high potential for serious adverse effects. REMS applies only to specific prescription drugs, but can apply to brand name or generic drugs. [1] The REMS program was formalized in 2007.
For prescription medications, the insert is technical, providing information for medical professionals about how to prescribe the drug. Package inserts for prescription drugs often include a separate document called a "patient package insert" with information written in plain language intended for the end-user—the person who will take the ...
Nursing documentation is the record of nursing care that is planned and delivered to individual clients by qualified nurses or other caregivers under the direction of a qualified nurse. It contains information in accordance with the steps of the nursing process .
Causes of medication errors include mistakes by the pharmacist incorrectly interpreting illegible handwriting or ambiguous nomenclature, and lapses in the prescriber's knowledge of desired dosage of a drug or undesired interactions between multiple drugs. Electronic prescribing has the potential to eliminate most of these types of errors.