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Management of Chemotherapy-Induced Neutropenia: Opportunities for Pharmacist Involvement This article reviews the clinical data on the use of myeloid growth factors in preventing chemotherapy-induced and febrile neutropenia in the context of recent updates to national guidelines and highlights specific pharmacist-led performance improvement initiatives that promote appropriate usage of myeloid growth factors. Lew M. Iacovelli and Brandy L. Persson

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Evaluation of Pharmacist-Managed Education of Medical Residents This article discusses the impact of pharmacist-provided education on medical residents’ understanding of treatment options and guidelines of common disease states. Anne Marie Liles and Kristi Kelly

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Improving Heparin Safety: A Multidisciplinary Invited Conference More than 40 anticoagulation experts, practitioners, and medication safety leaders met in San Diego, California on March 13-14, 2008 to identify issues and solutions for improving the safe use of heparin. Carl Peterson, Charles W. Ham, and Tim Vanderveen

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Nutrition Support Pharmacist Warfarin resistance and enteral tube feeding: an old problem with a new solution Roland N. Dickerson

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