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This podium presentation details how universal Hepatitis C virus screening in tertiary care center emergency department identified a high rate and volume of HCV + individuals, and how screening in emergency departments may assist in identifying certain at-risk groups that may not be screened in other settings.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the implementation of a dashboard to prevent therapy gaps by prospectively identifying patients on biologic therapy needing a new prescription with outdated labs. The new dashboard was highly effective at reducing the number of patients with a therapy gap, number of gap days, and days to receipt of a new prescription. Pharmacists and nurses reported high satisfaction rates with the new dashboard.

This podium presentation lists challenges in specialty pharmacy medication management and describes targeted support that could be provided to patients to lessen their risk for poor outcomes.

This multisite, prospective, cohort study of patients with MS evaluates the frequency and type of pharmacists' actions for patients on DMTs for MS across four HSSP sites. This study demonstrates that pharmacists commonly perform actions related to providing medication education and ensuring DMT safety and adherence.

Because MedB billing error fines can be costly for pharmacies dispensing high-cost medications, identifying common errors and training staff can be useful and financially prudent. The aim of this quality improvement project was to retrain certified pharmacy technicians (CPhTs) on common monthly billing errors and evaluate changes in error rates and potential fines.

We implemented a standardized documentation tool (SmartForms) that would collect discrete data fields during the specialty pharmacist's workflow in Dermatology clinic. This allowed us to collect data for reporting purposes on the front end, save time, document pharmacist interventions prior to treatment initiation, improve Epic documentation visibility and future usability.

The objective of this study was to characterize the HCV cascade of care in a bridge clinic setting and identify barriers to HCV treatment in this population. This study demonstrated that several challenges and barriers exist to engage patients in HCV care in a bridge clinic model, and more strategies should be identified to engage patients and link them to care.

This was a single-center, retrospective analysis of persistence on droxidopa for the management of orthostatic hypotension in adults patients. This study also evaluated adherence, patient-reported adverse events and falls as well as healthcare resource utilization.

This study highlights how specialty pharmacists with access to patient medical records were able to postpone requesting oral anticancer medication refills for patients with upcoming follow-up and sufficient medication on hand. Therapy was discontinued or changed in 98% of postponed requests accounting for over $967,000 in costs avoided.

The purpose of this project was to assess the type and frequency of AEs and AE-associated medical actions (i.e., treatment holds, dose reduction and treatment discontinuation due to AEs) in patients initiating encorafenib and binimetinib combination therapy.