Fighting against COVID-19: innovative strategies for clinical pharmacists.

Huibo Li; Siqian Zheng; Fang Liu; Wei Liu; Rongsheng Zhao

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Fighting against COVID-19: innovative strategies for clinical pharmacists.

May 6, 2020

Li H, Zheng S, Liu F, et al. Res Social Adm Pharm. 2020.

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This article describes innovative strategies pharmacists in China have explored to address the COVID-19 pandemic, such as establishing prescribing and workforce guidelines, utilizing remote inpatient order review and dispensing, and other telepharmacy approaches.

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