Patient Cases
Full pharmacist workflows
Review the chart, classify every medication line as a drug-therapy problem (or not), prioritize, recommend, plan the monitoring, and read the pharmacist debrief. The chart data looks internal-medicine; the reasoning is pharmacy.
community
The 72-year-old with sore knees
72-year-old with CKD, hypertension, and diabetes, picking up a new prescription and a bottle of naproxen.
6 medication lines
clinic
The heart-failure chart with a hole in it
66-year-old with HFrEF, referred for medication review after a second admission for congestion.
6 medication lines
community
The cascade in a blister pack
81-year-old in a compliance pack, referred after a fall, dizzy every morning.
5 medication lines
hospital
An INR of 8 and a chest infection
Admitted after a nosebleed that would not stop, four days into an antibiotic course.
6 medication lines
clinic
Breathless, and using the blue inhaler every day
Two exacerbations this winter, and he is not sure which inhaler is which.
6 medication lines
community
Three falls in two months
Living alone, walking less, and her daughter has started staying over.
7 medication lines
hospital
Discharged after a stent, and something is missing
Day 3 after a drug-eluting stent, reviewing the discharge prescription before it is printed.
8 medication lines
clinic
Newly pregnant, and half the list has to change
Six weeks pregnant, unplanned, and frightened by what she has been taking.
7 medication lines
Shorter formats live in What Would You Stop? and Adverse Effect Detective.