Frisk, P. 2018. Surveys and services. The feasibility of conducting research in Swedish community pharmacies. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Pharmacy 244. 67 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0213-3. For the past decades, there has been a shift in community pharmacy practice from dispensing and compounding towards provisio...

background and objectives: outsourcing healthcare and the associated services has proven as an effective strategy for enhancing hospital performance and improving quality of services. despite, the concept is relatively new in iran, calling for studies investigating different aspects of the issue and its potential benefits. thus, this study was conducted to explore the impact of outsourcing mana...

background and objectives: angiography remains as the gold standard for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases (cvd). the aim of this study was to assess the quality of angiography services in shahid madani hospital, tabriz, iran.   methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted in 2013 in shahid madani hospital. a sample of 203 cvd patients who had received angiography services was surveyed....

Several challenges involved in the reduction of hospital drugs expenditures are difficult to be solved, at least nowadays, but it is important to look for possible ways to undertake or reduce the problem. In this paper we propose an electronic market as a possible solution to reduce costs and time for the hospital pharmacies while increasing flexibility and access to new possibilities of negoti...

MD, MSc. Lecturer, Pharmacology Department, Lagos State University College of Medicine, and Resident, Paediatrics Department, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. BPharm, MPH. Assistant Director of Pharmacy, Pharmacy Department, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital College of Medicine, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. MD, FWACP, FMCPaed. Professor and Head, Paediatrics Dep...

The objectives of this review were to summarize and evaluate studies that measured the economic impact of clinical pharmacy services published between 2001 and 2005 (inclusive) and to provide guidance on methodologic considerations to individuals performing such research in the future. A systematic literature search using the MEDLINE and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts databases was cond...

A business-practice model is a guide, or toolkit, to assist managers and clinical pharmacy practitioners in the exploration, proposal, development and implementation of new clinical pharmacy services and/or the enhancement of existing services. This document was developed by the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Task Force on Ambulatory Practice to assist clinical pharmacy practitioners and...

Correctional facilities include county, state, and federal jails, prisons, and detention centers whose populations may be adult or juvenile, U.S. citizen or noncitizen, sentenced inmates or detainees awaiting judicial proceedings. They may be managed directly by the relevant jurisdiction, run by a private company providing services under contract, or a combination of the two. Case law and histo...

The WestView community-based medication reconciliation (CMR) aims to decrease medication error risk. A clinical pharmacist visits patients' homes within 72 hours of hospital discharge and compares medications in discharge orders, family physicians' charts, community pharmacy profiles and in the home. Discrepancies are discussed and reconciled with the dispenser, hospital prescriber and follow-u...

Death, Recurrence or Readmission in Patients with Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia in a Safety-Net Hospital Sanjiv Baxi, MS, MD, MPH; Angelo Clemenzi-Allen, MD; Alice Gahbauer, PharmD; Daniel Deck, PharmD; Brandon Imp, Medicine; Sarah Doernberg, MD; Henry F. Chambers, MD; Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Dep...