PURPOSE The implementation of a safety program for handling hazardous drugs in a community hospital is described. SUMMARY A committee of representatives of the departments of pharmacy, nursing, human resources, safety, radiology, performance improvement, employee health, and environmental services and members of the hospital administration was formed to formally address the management of haza...

background and objectives: efficient hospital management requires appropriate cost and price strategies. informed decision on costs and prices of healthcare services needs estimation of costs of unit services using microeconomic techniques. there is lack of knowledge and skills for such costing methods in the healthcare sector of developing countries such as iran. this study aims at detail desc...

aSchool of Medicine, Shiraz University of medical science, Shiraz, Iran. bSchool of Advanced Medical Sciences and Technologies, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. cNamazi hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Copyright © 2017 by School of Pharmacy Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Health Services Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Rese...

*College of Medicine and College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612; †Center for Comparative Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030-3498; ‡Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20814-4799; §University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213; and University o...

background and objectives: many iranian public hospitals are faced with serious financial challenges such as shortage of income and heavy debts. nevertheless, many of the healthcare services are often remained unearned for not being included in the clinical records or patient bill, resulting in considerable loss of legitimate hospital in­come. given the limited studies in this area in iran, the...

63 Am J Health-Syst Pharm—Vol 64 Jan 1, 2007 PAMELA LADA, PHARM.D., is Clinical Emergency Medicine Specialist, Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA. GEORGE DELGADO, JR., PHARM.D., is Coordinator, Emergency Pharmacy Services, and Clinical Emergency Medicine Specialist, Department of Emergency Medicine, Detroit Receiving Hospital and University Health Center, Detroi...

Corresponding Author: Steven Gabardi, PharmD, BCPS, FAST, FCCP, Abdominal Organ Transplant Clinical Specialist Departments of Transplant Surgery and Pharmacy Services, and the Renal Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115; phone (617) 732-7658; fax (617) 732-7507; email sgab...

the aim of this study was to provide a clinical pharmacy education program at masih daneshvari hospital, a university affiliated hospital, located in tehran, iran. for this purpose, the most common pharmacist involved interventions and aspects of potential fields for pharmacy students and residents education was firstly identified. clinical pharmacy interventions and drug information forms were...

OBJECTIVE Survey data sets are important sources of data, and their successful exploitation is of key importance for informed policy decision-making. We present how a survey analysis approach initially developed for customer satisfaction research in marketing can be adapted for an introduction of clinical pharmacy services into a hospital. METHODS AND MATERIAL We use a data mining analytical ...