News:

NT Landis

Healthy people report: progress toward year 2000 objectives, but some growing gaps
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1479-1480. [PDF]  

JL Miller

Task force 'grades' strategies for boosting vaccination rates
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1480. [PDF]  

Jane L. Miller

All-IPV schedule proposed for polio immunization in 2000
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1480. [PDF]  

Nancy Tarleton Landis

AHCPR charts health differences by race and ethnicity
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1480. [PDF]  

JL Miller

Guidelines for angina management released
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1482. [PDF]  

JL Miller

CDC issues recommendations on use of Lyme disease vaccine
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1484. [PDF]  

Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1484.  

NT Landis

NABP addresses pain management, confidentiality, Y2K preparedness. National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1486. [PDF]  

NT Landis

FTC zeroes in on Internet health fraud. Federal Trade Commission
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1489. [PDF]  

Upcoming Meetings
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1489. [PDF]  

NT Landis

Warnings needed about PVC, group tells FDA. Plasticizer not harmful, says Koop team
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1490. [PDF]  

Nancy Tarleton Landis

Rite Aid, GNC link to drugstore.com
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1490. [PDF]  

News Briefs
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1490-1496. [PDF]  

Articles:

M Kielty

Improving the prior-authorization process to the satisfaction of customers
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1499-1501. [PDF]  

GP Sachdev, KD Ohlrogge, and CL Johnson

Review of the Fifth American College of Chest Physicians Consensus Conference on Antithrombotic Therapy: outpatient management for adults
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1505-1514. [Abstract] [PDF]  

SP Amin, CD Mullins, BS Duncan, and L Blandford

Direct health care costs for treatment of diabetes mellitus and hypertension in an IPA-group-model HMO
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1515-1520. [Abstract] [PDF]  

KB Howard, K Blumenschein, and RP Rapp

Azithromycin versus erythromycin for community-acquired pneumonia: a cost-minimization analysis
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1521-1524. [Abstract] [PDF]  

RA Weideman, IH Bernstein, and WP McKinney

Pharmacist recognition of potential drug interactions
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1524-1529. [Abstract] [PDF]  

JD Cleary, PC Evans, AH Hikal, and SW Chapman

Administration of crushed extended-release pentoxifylline tablets: bioavailability and adverse effects
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1529-1534. [Abstract] [PDF]  

RW Baran, K Crumlish, H Patterson, J Shaw, WG Erwin, JD Wylie, and P Duong

Improving outcomes of community-dwelling older patients with diabetes through pharmacist counseling
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1535-1539. [PDF]  

LJ Moherman and MM Kolar

Complication rates for a telephone-based anticoagulation service
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1540-1542. [PDF]  

KL Shirley

Effect of an automated dispensing system on medication administration time
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1542-1545. [PDF]  

JF Connelly and KC Verzino

Distribution plan for immune globulin intravenous during a shortage
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1546-1548.  

M Gallagher

Home care pharmacist competency assessment program
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1549-1553. [PDF]  

SP Gelone and Kostman, JR

Hydroxyurea in the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus infection
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1554-1557. [PDF]  

LJ Cohen

Benefits of olanzapine as first-line schizophrenia therapy
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1559-1560.  

Current literature
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1574-1576. [PDF]  

Editorials:

JA Sellers

Medicare drug benefit
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1503. [PDF]  

Letters:

C Hammond

Finding drug link to reaction
Am J Health Syst Pharm 1999 56: 1558-1559. [PDF]  

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