The Importance of Electronic Health Record Access For Accurately Completing Drug Regimen Reviews.

To challenge the standard of practice by evaluating the identification of medication discrepancies found depending on type of access to an electronic health record (EHR). In other words, is there a difference in the number of discrepancies between a pharmacist with only access to the postacute long-term care (PALTC) EHR (ie, single-access pharmacist [SAP]) compared with a pharmacist with access to both the PALTC and hospital EHRs (ie, dual-access pharmacist DAP) In October 2018, the Improving Medicare PostAcute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act mandated admission drug review (DRR) upon admission to a postacute, long-term care (PALTC) facility.
This was a prospective study investigating the occurrence of medication therapy problems (MTP) identified by two different DRR processes; SAP versus DAP.

Pharmacy resident teaching in psychiatry and neurology for pharmacy programs in the United States.

Introduction: The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists' Postgraduate Year 1 and Year 2 Residency Accreditation Standards require that residents demonstrate effective teaching skills. The College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists' survey of pharmacy program curricula assessed resident teaching in psychiatry and neurology, however, results were not published. The objective of this article is to describe resident teaching in psychiatry and neurology curricula as reported by responses to the college's survey.