In light of concerns about rising pharmaceutical expenditures, managed care organizations call upon clinical pharmacists to include economic factors in their decisions regarding product selections for formulary inclusion. Good decisions increase the likelihood of achieving the desired bal, ance between providing high-quality care and containing overall health care' costs. Given time limitations...

Clinical pharmacists are highly trained professionals who provide comprehensive medication management across a majority of health care settings. These clinicians have numerous responsibilities, which may include teaching, administrative, and scholarly responsibilities in addition to patient activities. Many clinical report high degree burnout stress. In addition, practice models with limited op...

BACKGROUND Clinical pharmacy is not only a medical science but also an elaborate public health care system firmly related to its subsystems of education, training, qualification authentication, scientific research, management, and human resources. China is a developing country with a tremendous need for improvements in the public health system, including the clinical pharmacy service system. ...

Purpose: To investigate hospital pharmacists’ perception of their current clinical role in Pakistan’s healthcare system. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study in a population that consisted of hospital pharmacists in Islamabad, Faisalabad and Lahore which are three cities in Punjab State, Pakistan. A sample of 116 hospital pharmacists was selected from public and private hospitals in these ...

OBJECTIVES To explore the nurses' expectations and experience about pharmacists in private sector hospitals of Karachi, Pakistan. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted from June to September 2012 in five private sector hospitals of Karachi, Pakistan. A convenient sample of nurses (n=377) were enrolled in this study. Data was obtained through a previously validated questionnaire. Respo...

reporting rate is mainly due to reporting by pharmacists working in the public sector. Adverse drug reaction reports generated by pharmacists increased from 726 (28.5%) in 2006 to 3357 (57.4%) in 200911. On the other hand, the contribution by physicians towards ADR reporting was 22.9% in 200911. The increase in the number of reports submitted by pharmacists could be a reflection of the increase...

BACKGROUND The Kidney Care Clinic at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre provides multidisciplinary care for patients with stage 4 or 5 chronic kidney disease. These patients are at high risk of drug therapy problems. Clinic pharmacists review medications and provide recommendations at each visit, but potential gaps in care exist between clinic visits. Community pharmacists are ideally situated t...

The American College of Clinical Pharmacy charged the Public and Professional Relations Committee to develop a short white paper describing quality measures of clinical pharmacists' patient care services in transitional care settings. Transitional care describes patient movement from one health care setting or service to another. Care transitions are associated with an increased risk of adverse...

Recently created guidelines for the development of institutional antimicrobial stewardship programs recommend that a pharmacist with infectious diseases training be included as a core member of the antimicrobial stewardship team. However, training and certification requirements for infectious diseases-trained clinical pharmacists have not been established. Although pharmacists have nurtured the...

Mechanical ventilation is an integral part of the critical care environment and requires orchestration by a multidisciplinary team of clinicians to optimize therapeutic outcomes. By tradition, pharmacists have not been included on this team since this therapeutic modality is not considered relevant to their scope of practice. However, pharmacists play a critical role in the management of patien...