Australian Clinical Pharmacy Award 2006

The Ackermann Award 2006

The second Ackermann Award is presented at this CSL’06. Eligible for the 2006 Ackermann Award were PhD dissertations in topics specified by the EACSL and LICS conferences, which were formally accepted as PhD theses at a university or equivalent institution between 1.1. 2004 and 31.12. 2005. The jury received 14 nominations for the Ackermann Award 2006. The candidates came from 10 different nati...

The ESCI Award for Excellence in Clinical Science 2006.

Evidence-based medicine and molecular medicine have both been influential in biomedical research in the last 15 years. Despite following largely parallel routes to date, the goals and principles of evidence-based and molecular medicine are complementary and they should be converging. I define molecular evidence-based medicine as the study of medical information that makes sense of the advances ...

Economic evaluations of clinical pharmacy services: 2006-2010.

Studies have consistently evidenced the positive clinical, economic, and humanistic benefits of pharmacist-directed patient care in a variety of settings. Given the vast differences in clinical outcomes associated with evaluated clinical pharmacy services (CPS), more detail as to the nature of the CPS is needed to better understand observed differences in economic outcomes. With the growing tre...

Australian pharmacy law

Social Pharmacy and Clinical Pharmacy—Joining Forces

This commentary seeks to define the areas of social pharmacy and clinical pharmacy to uncover what they have in common and what still sets them apart. Common threats and challenges of the two areas are reviewed in order to understand the forces in play. Forces that still keep clinical and social pharmacy apart are university structures, research traditions, and the management of pharmacy servic...