Articles about patient care

Global discussion and application of evidence based medicine

Evidence based medicine is an important component of healthcare and helps to improve patient care.  Accreditation standards for Colleges of Pharmacy require interprofessional education and knowledge of drug information.  This article discusses evidence based medicine in healthcare and an initiative to help engage students from different institutions to help enhance student knowledge of evidence based…

What I learned from reading the book “Are your prescriptions killing you” by Neel and Hogan

This review explores the book Are Your Prescriptions Killing you?  By Dr. Armon Neel, which discusses topics of over-prescribing in different patient populations. This book discusses topics such as polypharmacy and criticizes the “cookbook medicine” approach where doctors heavily rely on standard guidelines that are influenced by pharmaceutical companies. This review covers risk of commonly…