CPOE Teams: A Prescription for Pharmacist Intervention

The impact of computerized physician order entry on prescription orders: A quasi-experimental study in Iran

Background: One way to reduce medical errors associated with physician orders is computerized physician order entry (CPOE) software. This study was conducted to compare prescription orders between 2 groups before and after CPOE implementation in a hospital.    Methods: We conducted a before-after prospective study in 2 intensive care unit (ICU) wards (as intervention and control ward...

Effects of Pharmacist Intervention on the Utilization of Vancomycin in a Teaching Hospital

In order to investigate the effect of pharmacist intervention on vancomycin use, this study was performed on all patients receiving vancomycin in the intensive care unit (ICU) and hematology-oncology ward of Taleghani Educational Hospital in Tehran, Iran. Vancomycin use was assessed during a pre- and post-intervention period in accordance with the Center of Disease Control and prevention (CDC) ...

Effects of Pharmacist Intervention on the Utilization of Vancomycin in a Teaching Hospital

In order to investigate the effect of pharmacist intervention on vancomycin use, this study was performed on all patients receiving vancomycin in the intensive care unit (ICU) and hematology-oncology ward of Taleghani Educational Hospital in Tehran, Iran. Vancomycin use was assessed during a pre- and post-intervention period in accordance with the Center of Disease Control and prevention (CDC) ...

Does a pharmacist have the right to refuse to fill a prescription for birth control?

The Pharmacist and the EPS ( electronic prescription service ) Extended

Pharmacists are often the forgotten link in electronic prescription services (EPS), and yet are the point at which the outcome of the system, the dispensing of medication to patients, actually occurs. This paper reports on a study of the attitudes to EPS and implementation of EPS on the ground in UK pharmacies in order to elicit a rich view of the many factors involved in EPS at the pharmacy an...