Pharmacy newsletters: time for a new approach.
P & T Committees are often responsible for preparing a drug information newsletter for the purposes of disseminating drug-related information to the rest of the medical staff. A large amount of time, effort, and expense is devoted to preparing a high-quality newsletter, but, unfortunately, data suggest that the correspondence is not often read by members of the medical staff. Therefore, the drug information newsletter needs to be examined and modified periodically to meet the needs of its readers. A mechanisms for providing drug information in a "pocket-guide" form that is easily kept for future and quick future reference was developed and is described.
D004346:Drug Information Services; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D008824:Michigan; D010606:Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee; D011643:Publishing