Pharmacy Benefit Management

Additionally, my graduate project and practical work in the Medicinal Chemistry Department in the final year of B.Sc. Pharmacy taught me how to behave in a laboratory, including key areas such as health and safety and a basis for good laboratory practice. This project was about design, chemical synthesis, and biological evaluation of small molecules as anti-proliferative…

1. Introduction The disparities in hypertension prevalence in various racial or ethnic groups exist since 1960, being highest in the non-Hispanic African-American adults . Apart from having higher prevalence of hypertension, this group reportedly has poor blood pressure control as compared to non-Hispanic whites , and poor adherence . One of the theories used to explain medication adherence behavior in patients with hypertension is Bandura’s Self-efficacy theory. Self-efficacy is the person’s…

Medication errors happen all the time, unfortunately. “According to a 2006 Institute of Medicine report, at least 1.5 million preventable medication-related adverse events occur in the Unites States every year, but the true number could be much higher” (Adams, S. C., Federwisch, M., & Ramos, H., 2014). The last straw in medication administration is the nurse. It is so important for the nurse to be very observant when administering medications, so that errors do not occur and lead to further…

Introduction In recent news Turing Pharmaceuticals has been on the news for raising the price on their medicine at skyrocketing costs. One in particular, is a medicine known as Daraprim which cost only $13.50 per tablet, saw an increased on its cost overnight by $736.50 dollars per tablet after being bought by Turing Pharmaceuticals. Daraprim is used in curing a parasitic infection that can be life threatening if left untreated.Turing Pharmaceuticals has obtain other older medicines and…

"Sometimes, you don’t choose a profession, it chooses you" ("Walk Through Time"). That’s how I ended studying a pharmacy degree. Rather than saying it was a well-elaborated decision, I would say I felt genuine fascinated the first day I walked to the drop-off window of my nearest CVS pharmacy. People will always ask me why I have so well defined to be a pharmacist or why would I choose a pharmacy profession over many others options. That would be the easiest question I’d find in my PCAT exam!…

prescribing medicine but also take charge of the effectiveness of drug in every perspective, which include the medication safety. It is very critical for the pharmacists to acknowledge the benefits and drawbacks of the medication and improve in order to produce the better medication such as maximizing drug benefit, minimizing drug risk and increasing effectiveness of cost.3 Hence, this continuous improvement will reduce the medication error or adverse drug events and increase medication…

the medications prescribed for patients contribute to the best possible health outcome” (ACCP). Clinical pharmacists typically work in a hospitals, outpatient clinic and nursing homes (ACCP). Nuclear Pharmacy is similar to Clinical pharmacy, as they do not have much patient interaction. Nuclear pharmacy careers are mostly in hospitals and imaging facilities. “Nuclear pharmacists are responsible for measuring and delivering the radioactive materials which are used in digital imaging (MRI, CT,…

“Beliefs Create Reality” This is the easiest explanation for the placebo effect. Traditionally, placebo effect had been considered as a psychological trait related to neurosis and gullibility, but modern researches show it is a physiological phenomenon. More specifically, the neurotransmitter dopamine is released by placebo treatment and turn on the switch of the body’s innate ability to heal itself. 1) Furthermore, the placebo effect in 2005 was about twice as more powerful than it was in the…

ADAPTIBILITY OF THE MODEL FOR THE MEDICAL SECTOR: 4P’s of Marketing Mix 4P’s of marketing mix has great application in the pharmaceutical sector. The pharmaceutical companies use the marketing mix for their pricing, promotion and supply process. Let’s consider the examples of few pharmaceutical companies. Now look at the example of marketing strategy of Pfizer Company. PRODUCT Pfizer is one of the world’s largest Parma companies which manufacture the pharmaceuticals and the health…

Being a certified pharmacy technician for over eight years; I admire and appreciate the work of my pharmacists. Always striving to learn more, I continue to acquire knowledge of the profession through the eyes of the pharmacists and as a result continue to teach myself what medications do and how they work in the body to help our patients. It is because of this fascination of the profession of pharmacy that I decided it was time to acquire my Doctor of Pharmacy degree. Getting to this point was…