The impact of a heart failure management protocol based on a hospital-community pharmacist collaboration.

Background: Heart failure has a high readmission rate, but interventions by multiple professionals are effective. Although there is growing interest in the management of heart failure by community pharmacists in Japan, no effective method has been developed. We created and verified the effectiveness of a novel heart failure management protocol that community pharmacists could utilize.

Prognosis in patients with non-small cell lung cancer who received erlotinib treatment and subsequent dose reduction due to skin rash.

Background: Severe skin rash as toxicity of erlotinib has been reported in relation to better response and survival. However, some patients require dose reduction due to skin toxicities, and their prognosis remains uncertain. We retrospectively evaluated the clinical course of non-small cell lung cancer patients receiving erlotinib at a reduced dose because of skin rash.