ASHP guidelines on the pharmacist's role in immunization.

ASHP statement on the pharmacist's role in antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and control.

ASHP statement on the pharmacist's role in substance abuse prevention, education, and assistance.

The American Society of Health- System Pharmacists (ASHP) believes that pharmacists have the unique knowledge, skills, and responsibilities for assuming an important role in substance abuse prevention, education, and assistance. Pharmacists, as health care providers, should be actively involved in reducing the negative effects that substance abuse has on society, health systems, and the pharmac...

ASHP statement on the health-system pharmacist's role in national health care quality initiatives.

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) believes that pharmacists who practice in hospitals and health systems (“health-system pharmacists”) have a critical leadership role in national health care quality-improvement initiatives. Health-system pharmacists possess the knowledge of drug therapy and medication-use systems required to successfully implement quality-assurance and im...

ASHP statement on the pharmacist's role in medication reconciliation.

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) believes that an effective process for medication reconciliation reduces medication errors and supports safe medication use by patients. ASHP encourages hospitals and health systems, including community-based providers and managed care systems, to collaborate in organized, multidisciplinary medication reconciliation programs to promote co...

ASHP guidelines on the pharmacist's role in providing drug information.

The provision of drug information (DI) is among the fundamental professional responsibilities of all pharmacists. Recent practice trends, including increased provision of medication therapy management services and efforts to obtain provider status, have placed pharmacists in increasingly complex patient-care roles and necessitated a higher level of competence by all pharmacists in meeting DI ne...