Patient Oriented Pharmacy Practice—Does It Include Traditional Services?

Broadening the patient safety agenda to include home care services.

Caring for an individual in the home is inherently complex. The physical environment, family dynamics and the cognitive abilities of the client and family members are only a few of the factors to be considered in delivering services. Although targeted initiatives have been established to reduce preventable injuries and deaths in the hospital sector, there has not been a corresponding level of r...

Professional Pharmacy Services and Patient Complexity: An Observational Study.

PURPOSE To examine the association between the provision of professional pharmacy services (PPS) and patient complexity as determined by the number of distinct medications dispensed in Ontario. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study among all individuals dispensed one or more medications under the Ontario Public Drug Program (OPDP) between April 1st, 2012 and March 31st, 2013. We compar...

Telematic Platform for Patient Oriented Services

!BSTRACT This paper describes in brief a basic framework for implementing a telematic-platform for patient oriented services. We first show the current situation in the medical field and work out the requirements for an integrating platform. Afterwards we introduce Active Node Technology (ANT), the technology the platform will be based on. The always increasing life expectancy and the increasin...

patient counseling in pharmacy

Clinical pharmacy services, pharmacy staffing, and hospital mortality rates.

OBJECTIVE To determine if hospital-based clinical pharmacy services and pharmacy staffing continue to be associated with mortality rates. METHODS A database was constructed from 1998 MedPAR, American Hospital Association's Annual Survey of Hospitals, and National Clinical Pharmacy Services databases, consisting of data from 2,836,991 patients in 885 hospitals. Data from hospitals that had 14 ...