This inviting landscape, "White Horse," was rendered in acrylics by Bishop MacCawley, a resident of the Leisure World retirement community in Silver Spring, Maryland. INTEGRATING QUALITY MEASURES INTO LONG-TERM CARE Mary Daschner As more health care purchasers demand solid proof of value, quality measurement is rapidly becoming a must in long-term care. The author looks at the evolution of performance benchmarking, its many benefits, and the tools that can help pharmacists be key players in the quality measurement game.
Kenneth N. Barker Three years ago, a coalition of ASCP and other leading pharmacy organizations set out to explore issues and concerns surrounding the rapid evolution of automated dispensing and transaction data management systems. The coalition's far-ranging White Paper reviews the current state of the art in pharmacy automation, with insights and guidance on issues such as quality assurance, pharmacists' oversight role, and barriers to wider implementation of automated technologies. |
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