The rapid growth and evolution of the pharmacy profession has created a wide array of opportunities for graduating pharmacists beyond traditional community pharmacy or hospital practice. Management and leadership positions in federal and state healthcare agencies, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, retail pharmacies, academia and managed care organizations increasingly require the pharmaceuti...

introduction: one of the most important factors affecting the future survival of organizations is identifying and meeting the increasing needs and demands of patients in order to provide high quality health care services. the aim of this study was to identify factors affecting the selection of milad hospital, iran, by patients based on combined marketing factors. methods: the present analytical...

Alison Beaney is regional quality assurance specialist based at The Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, Anne Black is quality assurance pharmacist and Clare Dobson is a basic grade pharmacist at Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Steve Williamson is lead pharmacist for cancer services at Northumbria Healthcare Trust. Mark Robinson is a pre registration trainee at Sunderland R...

BACKGROUND Recent attention has focused on access of communities to pharmacy services in rural areas. To increase access to pharmacy services in rural Western Australia some doctors have been granted a licence to dispense medication on the rationale that a pharmacy would not be economically viable in that community. However, there have been no studies conducted on whether a doctor dispensing se...

BACKGROUND Implementation of pharmacy services in dialysis centers seems to be limited and requires acceptance from nephrologists. The aim of this study was to explore the opinions of Australian and Portuguese nephrologists toward a potential future provision of clinical pharmacy services in outpatient dialysis centers. METHODS A qualitative study using semistructured interviews was conducted...

Hospital pharmacy service is a supporting as well revenue center in hospital. More than 90% of hospital services utilize pharmaceutical supplies, and 50% revenues originate from supply management. In the Covid-19 pandemic situation, installation must calculate logistics management medicine correctly. However, based on stocktaking May-July at Puri Bunda Mother Child Hospital, there were stock-ou...

Pharmacy residencies (originally termed “internships”) began in the early 1930s, primarily for the purpose of training pharmacists for the management of pharmacy services in hospitals. The first nonacademic residency program is believed to have been conducted by Harvey A. K. Whitney at the University of Michigan Hospital. Approximately 10 years later, the first residency program combined with f...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES In Nigeria, a shift from the traditional pharmacists' role of dispensing and compounding of medications began in the 1980s with the introduction of drug information services and unit dose-dispensing systems in some hospitals. More than three decades after this, clinical pharmacy practice is still underdeveloped. This study was conducted to explore stakeholders' vi...

During the past several years, the emphasis on quality in health care has been evolving. Alongside this evolution of change has been the advancement of clinical pharmacy services in ambulatory care settings. Although they share importance, both health care quality and ambulatory clinical pharmacy services have progressed and moved in their own directions. Nevertheless, in today’s evolving healt...

ow what?” I asked myself. At the time I was the assistant pharmacy director at Sinai Hospital of Detroit and had just been appointed acting director until the permanent director of pharmacy was secured. I was one year out of my residency and a graduate student with the summer to devote to the operation of the hospital pharmacy. I was “as green as a stick” and did not have much of a clue about s...