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How to Reduce Your Chance of Medication Errors

Triage Cancer

Lastly, nurses can give a patient the wrong medication, or give a medication at the wrong time. Share this list with your doctors – they often don’t know what other doctors prescribe. Tell your doctors about any medication-related allergies and/or side effects. Medication Issues at Home. Write this information down.

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Novartis hails digital strategy as profits hold up during pandemic

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Novartis has said that its investment in digital technology has helped it to ride out the worst of the pandemic, although sales of some of its newly-launched products have been affected by a fall in prescriptions and hospital visits. billion and profits growing 2% to just over $3 billion. Some products have been affected, however.

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Omnichannel strategies to revolutionize the healthcare professional experience

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Consultants, doctors, and nurses are overworked, stressed, and tired. Simply blitzing doctors and consultants with as much information as possible fails to drive engagement when many healthcare professionals struggle to stay on top of the information required to excel in their day-to-day jobs.

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HCP’s use of social media: the good and the not so good

World of DTC Marketing

million other healthcare professionals worldwide, including medical students, residents, nurses, and more,45 Medscape is the largest news site for HCPs around the world, . physicians, 90% of fourth-year medical students, and 45% of all nurse practitioners and physicians’ assistants are issues. Reaching 730,000 physicians and 1.9

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Medical Science Liaison Jobs: Everything You Need to Know

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Their engagements may include organizing meetings with doctors and healthcare staff, contributing to panel discussions or presenting information to audiences. Transitioning into a medical science liaison role from a position such as a pharmaceutical sales representative or from a non-related field is less common but also possible.

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2022 Pharma Marketing Trend to Watch: Musical Chairs

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As what Harvard Business Review calls “a tidal wave of resignations” continues — with the highest rates for those ages 30-45 — and, as many pandemic-induced changes continue to alter to the structure of businesses worldwide (including pharma sales and marketing organizations) — many of our basic assumptions, approaches, and priorities need to shift.

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Three pillars of post-pandemic launch excellence

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Achievement, meaning commercial performance in the context of sales uptake, as measured by the IQVIA sales audits. There remains a difference between a launch being approved and commercially available, and IQVIA uses its MIDAS sales audits to evaluate the latter.

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