Best Practices for Hospital & Health-system Pharmacy Position & Guidance Documents of ASHP

ASHP position statements and more than 70 guidance documents of varying scope provide ongoing advice to managers and practitioners to help improve the medication-use process, patient care and safety, and patient outcomes and quality of life. New material in this edition covers managing drug product shortages, cessation of tobacco use, therapeutic monitoring of vancomycin in adult patients, antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and control, safe use of automated dispensing devices, and the health-system pharmacist's role in national health care quality initiatives.