Are you a hospital-based pharmacist? Question re: Respiratory Medications

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machellewilchesky@gmail.com - 11 Apr 2008 20:02 GMT

Hi

I'm an epidemiologist and have a question about which a hospital-
based pharmacist or pharmacologist would hopefully know the answer:

In patients hospitalised with COPD who are prescribed bronchodilator
+/ or corticosteroid medications.... Do they leave the hospital with
their new meds in hand or do they get a prescription which needs to be
filled upon their first day out of hospital?

If you'd like to answer me privately my email address is:
machelle.wilche...@mail.mcgill.ca

Thanks in advance!!

Machelle

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HankG - 12 Apr 2008 16:43 GMT

> Hi
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> If you'd like to answer me privately my email address is:
> machelle.wilche...@mail.mcgill.ca

Your email address failed.

HankG

> Thanks in advance!!
>
> Machelle

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machellewilchesky@gmail.com - 13 Apr 2008 14:04 GMT

> Your email address failed.
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> HankG

I'm not sure why my email address was obscured by the google groups
software..
in any case my email is:

machelle (dot) wilchesky @ mail (dot) mcgill (dot) ca

thanks

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Dr. Wayne Simon - 15 Apr 2008 01:44 GMT

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> thanks

New prescription to be filled by an outpatient pharmacy.

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machellewilchesky@gmail.com - 15 Apr 2008 12:09 GMT

> <machellewilche...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> New prescription to be filled by an outpatient pharmacy.

Thanks for responding:

A more precise question would be:
In your experience, do these COPD patients leave your hospital with
unused portions of their hospital-issued MDIs in-hand which would
delay their filling of their out-patient Rx?

thanks

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nemo_357@hotmail.com - 16 Apr 2008 17:11 GMT

On Apr 15, 7:09 am, "machellewilche...@gmail.com"
<machellewilche...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Apr 14, 8:44 pm, "Dr. Wayne Simon"
> A more precise question would be:
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> thanks-

In our particular case, they would NOT leave with any hospital
provided medication as it would not meet labeling requirements. They
would have, in hand, a supply of medication from our Outpatient
Department. We fill the discharge medications which are either picked
up by the nurse or delivered by a pharm tech.

The return email is invalid but I can be reached at
nick(at)pharmasyst(dot)com

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