Hospital Pharmacist
Vol 14 pp33-72 No 2
February 2007

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Comment   34

Appraising evidence — a core skill at all levels of practice 34
By Catherine Duggan, BPharm, PhD, MRPharmS
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News   37-38

News summary  37-38
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-Medicines management must be “top priority” in mental health
-Most preventable admissions caused by just four drug groups
-Mandatory registration of technicians delayed
-Drugs affect outcome more than behaviour
-Improved handling of drug shortages needed

Special feature: Statistical analysis   39-51

Life-long learning

Analysing data — choosing appropriate statistical methods 39-44
There are many different statistical tests that can be used to analyse data. When reporting results it is important that the tests used are appropriate for the type of data that have been collected. This article, the first in a special feature on statistics, describes the different types of data and the tests used to analyse them
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Interpreting data — assessing study results and reports 47-51
Interpreting the results of clinical trials is often difficult, and pharmacists should be able to establish whether the techniques used are appropriate for the data presented. This article, the second in a special feature, provides guidance on interpreting some of the methods commonly seen in scientific papers
Hospital Pharmacist   2007;14:47-51
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Careers   52-54

Careers

A career as … a paediatric HIV pharmacist 52-54
By Deepak Patel, MRPharmS
More than 1,000 children in the UK are infected with HIV. This article describes the contributions of a paediatric HIV pharmacist in caring for these patients
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Meetings   55-57

American Society of Health-system Pharmacists
Pharmacy intervention improves medicine adherence in the elderly 55-57
Coverage of this year’s ASHP meeting continues with reports about pharmacy interventions that can be made on both sides of the Atlantic. Christine Clark and Hannah Pike report
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Papers   58-64

Risk assessment of parenteral product preparation across secondary care acute trusts in the north of England 58-64
By Linda Hardy, BSc, MRPharmS, and Liz Mellor, MPharm, MRPharmS
OBJECTIVE — To assess the extent of, and the risks posed by, the preparation of parenteral products in secondary care acute trusts in the north of England
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Case study   65-67

Metronidazole causes an unexpected rise in INR in anticoagulated patients even after warfarin has been stopped 65-67
By Antonella P. Tonna, MSc, MRPharmS, David Scott, PhD, MRPharmS, David Keeling, MD, FRCP, and Ivan Tonna , MSc, MRCP
Interaction between metronidazole and warfarin is thought to potentiate the anticoagulant effect of warfarin. In this article, the authors propose mechanisms for this interaction, based on three case studies
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Focus on technicians   68

Focus on technicians

What’s new at the CPPE? 68
By Paula Higginson, MRPharmS, Matthew Shaw, MRPharmS, and Christopher Cutts, MRPharmS
Support for pharmacy technicians undertaking CPD is provided by the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education. This article describes some recent initiatives
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Life-long learning   69-70

Life-long learning

QUESTIONS: Statistical analysis 69-70
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ANSWERS: Procurement 69
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