1Florin Casoinic, 1Dorel Sampelean, 2Anca D. Buzoianu, 3Nicolae Hancu, 4Dorina Baston 1 Department of Internal Medicine, “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; 2 Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology, “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; 3 Department of Diabetology, “Iuliu Hațieganu” Univers...

The PHARMINE (Pharmacy Education in Europe) consortium surveyed pharmacy education and practice in 2012. Surveys were updated in 2017 for publication. The PHARMINE consortium was especially interested in specialization in pharmacy education and practice (for community, hospital, and industrial pharmacy), and in the impact of the Bologna agreement and the directive of the European Commission on ...

BACKGROUND It is important for healthcare providers to report safety related events, but little attention has been paid to how the definition and classification of events affects a hospital's ability to learn from its experience. OBJECTIVES To examine how the definition and classification of safety related events influences key organizational routines for gathering information, allocating inc...

The following minimum standard guidelines are intended to serve as a basic guide for the provision of pharmacy services in hospitals. These guidelines outline a minimum level of services that most hospital pharmacy departments should consistently provide. The reader is strongly encouraged to review the American Society of Health-System Pharmacy (ASHP) guidance documents referenced throughout th...

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...

Mark D. Gonzalez, Ph.D., Allison R. McMullen, Ph.D., Meghan A. Wallace, B.S., Matthew P. Crotty, Pharm.D., David J. Ritchie, Pharm.D., and Carey-Ann D. Burnham, Ph.D. Department of Pathology and Immunology, Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA; Pharma...

background: over 90% of pharmacy students’ work in pharmacies after graduation which needs both knowledge and skill, thus one of the most essential courses of their education is pharmacy clerkship. an important part of an educational program is the evaluation of the trainees. different studies show that conventional written exams are not successful in evaluating the skills of the students and c...

patients. No matter how thoroughly a new drug has been tested in experimental animals, possible species differences must never be forgotten in assessing its precise effect in man. As Mr. Hanbury, of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, has recently said, " there are innumerable examples of drugs of the utmost value, even penicillin itself, which have brought life and health to millions of peopl...

This study evaluated direct relationships and associations among clinical pharmacy services, pharmacist staffing, and total cost of care in United States hospitals. A database was constructed from the 1992 American Hospital Association's Abridged Guide to the Health Care Field and the 1992 National Clinical Pharmacy Services Database. A multiple regression analysis, controlling for severity of ...