[Prescription of acetaminophen in five French hospitals: What are the practices?].

Aim: Acetaminophen is widely used in hospital settings and often considered as nontoxic. We conducted a multicentric study in order to evaluate its proper use.

Method: Prescriptions from five general hospitals were analyzed, according to dose adjustments required in renal or liver failure, weight or chronic alcoholism, determined using a literature review.

[Targeting high-risk drugs to optimize clinical pharmacists' intervention].

Objectives: By the Order of 6 April 2011, the pharmacist must validate all the prescriptions containing "high-risk drugs" or those of "patients at risk". To optimize this clinical pharmacy activity, we identified high-risk drugs.

Method: A list of high-risk drugs has been established using literature, pharmacists' interventions (PI) performed in our hospital and a survey sent to hospital pharmacists.

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Tyrosine-kinase inhibitors are recent therapy used in different neoplastic diseases. Dysthyroidism seems to be a class effect of these drugs with a potentially cross cumulative effect. We describe here the case of a man who first developed dysthyroidism with sunitinib, then a deep and permanent hypothyroidism when axitinib was introduced.

[Dysthyroidism with anti-VEGF treatment, a class effect? about one case report].

Tyrosine-kinase inhibitors are recent therapy used in different neoplastic diseases. Dysthyroidism seems to be a class effect of these drugs with a potentially cross cumulative effect. We describe here the case of a man who first developed dysthyroidism with sunitinib, then a deep and permanent hypothyroidism when axitinib was introduced.