PURPOSE The development and implementation of a systemwide specialty pharmacy program in an academic healthcare system are described. SUMMARY Although the system's pharmacy department had developed specialty pharmacy services for patients with certain conditions, it was necessary to expand and standardize those services to meet the needs of all specialty clinics because (1) many of the clinic...

recognizing the advantages of primary care as a means of improving the entire health system, this text comments on reforms of publicly funded primary health centers, and the rapid development of private forprofit providers in sweden. many goals and expectations are connected to such reforms, which equally require critical analyses of scarce resources, professional trust/motivation and business ...

YA-MIN CHENG, MD,YI CHEN, MD, YU-YUN HSU, YUEH-CHIN CHENG, MING-JENN CHEN, MD , YI-CHIANG HSU, PHD Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. Cardiovascular Center, Tainan Municipal Hospital, Taiwan Department of Nursing Institute of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, T...

Elaine Liu, Kevin Lewis, Hiba Al-Saffar, Catherine M. Krall, Anju Singh, Vladimir A. Kulchitsky, Joshua J. Corrigan, Christopher T. Simons, Scott R. Petersen, Florin M. Musteata, Chandra S. Bakshi, Andrej A. Romanovsky, Timothy J. Sellati, and Alexandre A. Steiner Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, New York; Center for Immunology and M...

ROBERT C. OWENS, JR.,* MARY ANNE BANEVICIUS, DAVID P. NICOLAU, CHARLES H. NIGHTINGALE, AND RICHARD QUINTILIANI Department of Clinical Pharmacy Services, Medical Center of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19718; School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201; Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104; and Department of Pharmacy Research, Offi...

366. The Impact of Bathing Hospitalized Dependent Patients with Disposable Washcloths Instead of Traditional Bath Basins on Infection Rates and Skin Condition Samran Haider, MD; Judy Moshos; Dror Marchaim, MD; Emily Martin, MPH, PhD; George Divine, PhD; Keith Kaye, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA; Detroit Medical Center / Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University,...

Concerns on the Growing Use of Lithium: The Pros and Cons Soodabeh Saeidnia , Mohammad Abdollahi 2, * 1 Medicinal Plants Research Center, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran. 2 Department of Toxicology and Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran *Corresponding au...

Mitra Torabi, Farnaz Naeemzadeh, Vida Ebrahimi, Negar Taleschian-Tabrizi, Fariba Pashazadeh, Hossein Nazemie. Students’ Research Committee, Iranian Evidence-Based Medicine Center of Excellence, School of Pharmacy, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Students’ Research Committee, Iranian Evidence-Based Medicine Center of Excellence, School of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medic...

1Program in Pharmacogenetics, Department of Pharmacology, and 2Medical Scientist Program, School of Biomedical Science, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus; 3Department of Pharmacy Practice, University of Illinois at Chicago; 4Department of Pharmacy Practice and Center for Pharmacogenomics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville; and 5Dorothy Davis Heart an...

for the time being our pharmacy curriculum is in iran mostly based on lecturing methods as instructional strategies. in this method of education a great deal of declarative knowledge as well as a large number of students could be covered at the same time. indeed based on the job description of a pharmacist, pharmacy graduates should work in a relevant field in pharmacy retail, in order to be ab...