Healthy Living for Life Podcast: Recent Episodes
Mountain-Pacific Quality Health
Healthy Living for Life is a series of podcasts featuring a wide variety of issues impacting the health care system and the patients, families and caregivers who use this system. Sponsored, produced and hosted by Mountain-Pacific Quality Health
Are antibiotic awareness campaigns working? Does the public still feel like antibiotics are a cure-all? Are there tips out there for talking to patients about antibiotics? These are just a few of the questions addressed on this episode of Healthy Living for Life’s podcast.
Penicillin is the most commonly report drug allergy, with 10 percent of the population claiming an allergy to penicillin. Research shows that 90 percent or more of these individuals are not allergic. A “penicillin-allergic” label for a patient can result in higher medical costs, longer hospital stay, and more exposure to broad-spectrum antibiotics. These patients also more likely to develop drug-resistant bacterial infections. Join Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice Lanae Fox, PharmD, BCPS, with the University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy to learn more about this hot topic. Dr. Fox shares her real-world experience concerning the rationale of adding a penicillin sensitivity skin test service, and its potential impact on antibiotic stewardship and patient outcomes.
Listen to this week’s episode of Healthy Living for Life to learn how health information technology (HIT) can support your antibiotic stewardship efforts!
Have you ever heard of a super bug? Many times when we talk about something being “super,” it’s a good thing. But super bugs are becoming one of the world’s most pressing public health issues. In this episode we’re talking about bacteria—or bugs—that can make us very sick and no longer respond to even the most powerful medications we have to fight them. So what can we do about it?
Healthy Living for Life is sponsored, produced and hosted by Mountain-Pacific Quality Health.