Clinical pharmacy is a patient-centred pharmaceutical practice. The main objective is to ensure themost appropriate and safe use of medicines. A second related objective is to optimise medicines use atthe lowest possible costs. Clinical pharmacy services have existed for many years in North Americaand the UK, and they can be provided from the hospital pharmacy department (centra...

The PHARMINE ("Pharmacy Education in Europe") project examined the organisation of pharmacy practice and education in the European Union (EU). An electronic survey was sent out to representatives of different sectors (community, hospital, industrial pharmacists, university staff, and students) in each individual EU member state. This paper presents the results of the PHARMINE survey on pharmacy...

220 Maedica A Journal of Clinical Medicine, Volume 6 No.3 2011 New Anticoagulants in the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation in 2011 Vlad Damian VINTILAa; Dragos VINEREANUb aMD, PhD fellow, consultant in Cardiology and Internal Medicine, “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Emergency University Hospital Bucharest, Cardiology Dept. bProfessor, MD, PhD, FESC, consultant in Cardiology ...

Drug therapy is a complex and important process and because of the importance of drug interactions, especially in in-patients, accompanying problems and obstacles would exist as a result of concomitant use of drugs in these patients. For this purpose 3130 prescription order forms from Bou-Ali hospital were collected and all potential drug interactions presentwere extracted and evaluated in term...

The hospital pharmacy installation is a place for managing pharmaceutical preparations and clinical services based on the quality of services. compatibility between applicable standards to achieve optimal health degrees patient satisfaction. Patient satisfaction match perceptions performance expectations. purpose this study was determine outpatient at Morowali Hospital. This research quantitati...

Department of General Surgery, the First Municipal Hospital of Guangzhou, Guangzhou, China (J Cao) Department of Pharmacy, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China (X Chen) Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Australian Institute of Chinese Medicine, Sydney, New South Wales 2118, Australia (J Liang & SF Zhou) Department of Nephrology, the First Affiliated H...

Ancuta Augustina Gheorghisan Galateanu1,2, Mara Carsote2,3*, Dan Peretianu4, Cristina Iosif5,6, Dana Terzea2,5 and Catalina Poiana2,3 1Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania 2“C.I.Parhon” National Institute of Endocrinology, Bucharest, Romania 3Department of Endocrinology, “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Ph...

Department of Pharmacy, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou 362000, People’s Republic of China. Department of Physical and Chemical Analysis, Quanzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Quanzhou 362000, People’s Republic of China. Department of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350004, People’s Republic of China. Depar...

A field study was performed in a hospital pharmacy aimed at identifying positive and negative influences on the process of detection of and further recovery from initial errors or other failures, thus avoiding negative consequences. Confidential reports and follow-up interviews provided data on 31 near-miss incidents involving such recovery processes. Analysis revealed that organizational cultu...

Medication practice encompasses the processes of prescribing, dispensing, preparing, administering, and monitoring the clinical effects of medicines. The mission for hospital pharmacy services is to ensure the safe, effective, and economic uses of medicines. Medication practice measures monitor one or more of these elements. Outcome measures providing quantitative data related to the outcomes o...