Awareness of a patient’s potential procedures and changes in nutritional intake enables the pharmacist to prevent hypoglycemic events by proactively adjusting the insulin regimen.
The focus of new agents for treating this malignancy has been on patients with relapsed or refractory disease, which carries a poor prognosis and short life expectancy.
Many patients with this life-threatening bacterial infection present with nonspecific symptoms that prompt a broad medical workup to rule out other potential sources of infection.
Most pharmacies that closed between 2009 and 2015 in the United States were independent drugstores in low-income urban areas with underserved populations.