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Features

'97 Government Affairs Overview: A Year of Challenge and Change
David K. Buerger
As major Medicare and Medicaid reforms, the rise of managed care, and intensifying crackdowns on health care fraud continued to reshape the health care landscape in 1997, ASCP emerged as a key player on several legislative and regulatory fronts.

Information Technology and System Integration in Long-Term Care
Donna West, Sheryl Szeinbach, and Spencer Harpe
New and developing information technologies hold tremendous promise for bridging the continuum of health care providers.

ASCP's 28th Annual Meeting Preview
Learn to survive and grow in the changing environment of health care by participating in ASCP's largest-ever annual meeting and exhibition in Philadelphia.

C O N T E N T S
September 1997/Volume 12,
Number 9

About the artist: Laura Stutzman is a professional illustrator whose work has appeared in a number of magazines and commercial publications. She is a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.

Clinical Reviews
Alternative Methods of Proton Pump Inhibitor Administration
Anthony Zimmermann, J. Ken Walters, Brian Katona, Paul Souney
The authors present a summary of administration of proton pump inhibitors and describe resulting clinical outcomes in patients who cannot swallow intact capsules or who have nasogastric, jejunal or other feeding tubes in place.

D E P A R T M E N T S
Bylines
R. Tim Webster

Letters
Conflicting Information Adds Confusion to the Drug Disposal Question

Health Trends

ASCP Reports
ASCP Offers Document Retrieval Service

Calendar

Consultant Pharmacist Forum

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Why South Dakota's Medicaid Waiver Request Was Rejected

Federal Perspectives

Helpful Ideas
Time Management Tips

Late Additions
The Birth of a Certification Exam