The Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee guidelines call for a detailed medication history to be taken at the first point of admission to hospital. Accurate medication histories are vital in optimising health outcomes and have been shown to reduce mortality rates. This study aimed to examine the accuracy of medication histories taken in the Emergency Department of the Royal Adelaide Hos...

The history of pharmacy in Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was shaped by two main influences, namely the advancement of the pharmaceutical sciences, and the efforts of its practitioners to raise their calling to the rank of a recognized corporate profession. The work of the chemist and druggist—the future pharmacist—was an unusually responsible employment in that it suppli...

The medication history among hospitalized patients often relies on patients' self-reports due to insufficient communication between health care professionals. The aim of the present study was to estimate the reliability of patients' self-reported medication use. Five hundred patients admitted to an acute medical department at a Danish university hospital were interviewed on the day of admission...

Cowen and Helfand's treatment is no exception and, indeed, they readily acknowledge their debt to Edward Kremer's and George Urdang's pioneering work and its revision by Glenn Sonnedecker. To this they have been worthy successors. They have incorporated much new material offered by recent authors (though with some obvious exceptions as the bibliography reveals) and have produced a sound and, fo...

Hellström, Lina, (2012). Clinical pharmacy services within a multiprofessional healthcare team. Linnaeus University Dissertations No 84/2012. ISBN: 978-91-86983-47-5. Written in English with a summary in Swedish. Background: The purpose of drug treatment is to reduce morbidity and mortality, and to improve health-related quality of life. However, there are frequent problems associated with drug...

BACKGROUND Pharmacy benefits have historically excluded injectable drugs, resulting in coverage of injectable drugs under the medical benefit. High-cost biologics and other new drug therapies are often injectables and therefore have not presented cost threats to pharmacy benefits. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of capecitabine, an oral form of fluorouracil, in 1998, and imatinib...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the satisfaction rate of hospital managerial/clinical teams (hmcts) including principles (chief executives), managers, supervisor pharmacists and head nurses from services presented by private sectors directing 10 pharmacy departments in hospitals affiliated to shahid beheshti university of medical sciences.this study is an observational and descriptive stu...

This article points to the possibility of the creative use of the UNESCO concept of heritage in the teaching of the history of medicine and pharmacy. This enriching teaching concept is of great importance, with 2002 being proclaimed the UNESCO Year for Cultural Heritage. The article discusses long-term experiences gathered at the Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences in Poland.

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