Letter: hospital pharmacy committees.

Hospital pharmacy committees in England: Their structure, function, and development.

A total of 150 chief and group chief pharmacists in England took part in a survey of the structure and role of pharmacy committees in hospitals. Just over half of the hospitals had such a committee. About two-thirds of these dealt only with pharmacy matters and one-third dealt also with other matters. The number of new committees set up increased slowly until 1967 and then showed a sharp rise. ...

Resuscitation and hospital ethics committees.

The article ‘The ethics of resuscitation’, published in ‘Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy’ 3/2011, aroused much interest of the readers [1]. It deals with an important and often neglected issue of ethical dilemmas associated with decision making about the institution or otherwise of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The involvement of hospital ethics committees in ‘decision making about the insti...

Hospital/clinical ethics committees' notion: an overview

Hospital ethics committees (HECs) help clinicians deal with the ethical challenges which have been raised during clinical practice. A comprehensive literature review was conducted to provide a historical background of the development of HECs internationally and describe their functions and practical challenges of their day to day work. This is the first part of a comprehensive literature review...

The bioethics movement and hospital ethics committees.

Hospital pharmacy workforce in Brazil

BACKGROUND This study aims to describe the distribution of the hospital pharmacy workforce in Brazil. METHODS Data were acquired, during 2016, through the Brazilian National Database of Healthcare Facilities (CNES). The following variables were extracted: hospital name, registry number, telephone, e-mail, state, type of institution, subtype, management nature, ownership, presence of research/...