OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact and cost-benefit of clinical pharmacist interventions on inappropriate use of prophylactic acid suppressant in hepatobiliary surgical patients in a Chinese tertiary hospital. METHODS A retro-prospective intervention study of patients undergoing elective operations was performed in the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery of the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest ...

BACKGROUND Despite pharmacists having increased involvement in managing minor illness, many patients continue to attend their GP with problems that could be managed by community pharmacists. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to investigate the prevalence of visits to the GP that GPs felt could be managed by a pharmacist, and to explore patients' reasons for such visits. METHODS This cross-sectional que...

UNLABELLED Physician led collaborative drug therapy management utilizing clinical pharmacists to aid in the medication management of patients with hypertension has been shown to improve blood pressure control. With recommendations for lower blood pressures in patients with coronary artery disease, a cardiologist-pharmacist collaborative care model may be a novel way to achieve these more rigoro...

PURPOSE Changes in glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA(1c)) levels, blood pressure measurements, and utilization metrics among diabetic patients managed by a clinical pharmacist were studied. SUMMARY This pharmacist intervention model was developed by Polk County, Florida, to engage patients with diabetes in managing their health based on the Asheville Project's framework. The diabetes program was i...

INTRODUCTION Pneumonia impacts over four million people annually and is the leading cause of infectious disease-related hospitalization and mortality in the United States. Appropriate empiric antimicrobial therapy decreases hospital length of stay and improves mortality. The objective of our study was to test the hypothesis that the presence of an emergency medicine (EM) clinical pharmacist imp...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether a pharmacist can effectively review repeat prescriptions through consultations with elderly patients in general practice. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial of clinical medication review by a pharmacist against normal general practice review. SETTING Four general practices. PARTICIPANTS 1188 patients aged 65 or over who were receiving at least one repeat pre...

OBJECTIVES To conduct a follow-up to the National Pharmacist Immunization Survey of 1998 to determine changes in pharmacist involvement in immunizations and obstacles to pharmacy-based immunization services and to assess the descriptive information about pharmacy-based immunization services provided. DESIGN Cross-sectional mail survey. SETTING United States. PARTICIPANTS A randomly select...

detection of adverse drug reactions (adrs) in hospitals provides an important measure of the burden of drug related morbidity on the healthcare system. spontaneous reporting of adrs is scare and several obstacles to such reporting have been identified formerly. this study aimed to determine the role of clinical pharmacy residents in adr reporting within a hospital setting.clinical pharmacy resi...

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) ...

background: community pharmacies are considered as ideal settings to provide cardiovascular risk screening (crs). however, little is known about pharmacists’ views on providing such services in developing countries including iran. in the present study, we evaluated the pharmacists’ attitudes and perceived barriers to providing crs services. methods: in a cross-sectional study, a questionnaire i...