The implementation and pharmacoeconomic analysis of a clinical staff pharmacist (CSP) practice model are described. Staff pharmacists at a large, tertiary care, academic medical center were selected and trained to perform clinical pharmacy services under the direction of clinical pharmacy specialist mentors. Clinical interventions by these CSP practitioners were evaluated in terms of direct cos...

1 Department of Pediatrics, Mures County Clinical Hospital, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tirgu-Mures, Romania 2 Department of Pediatrics, Mures County Emergency Clinical Hospital, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tirgu-Mures, Romania Corresponding author: Adrienne Horvath 38 Gheorghe Marinescu street, 540139, Tirgu-Mures, Romania, tel. +40 745 593380 E-mail: [email protected] A...

Contraceptive use among women Veterans may not be adequately captured using administrative and pharmacy codes. Clinical progress notes may provide a useful alternative. The objectives of this study were to validate the use of administrative and pharmacy codes to identify contraceptive use in Veterans Health Administration data, and to determine the feasibility and validity of identifying contra...

1Department of Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA 2Translational Pharmacology Research Core, New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, 701 Ellicot Street, Buffalo, NY 14302, USA 3Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics, Clinical and Translati...

Few would argue that the ability to match individual patients with the safest and most effective drugs and doses would be a major advance for clinical medicine. But while clinicians have been reluctant to routinely use pharmacogenomic analyses to guide their prescribing practices, pharmacy benefit managers and drugstores are proceeding with major pharmacogenetic initiatives.

Pharmacy informatics is defined as the use and integration of data, information, knowledge, technology, and automation in the medication-use process for the purpose of improving health outcomes. The term "big data" has been coined and is often defined in three V's: volume, velocity, and variety. This paper describes three major areas in which pharmacy utilizes big data, including: 1) informed d...

The American College of Clinical Pharmacy and other stakeholder organizations seek to advance clinical pharmacist practitioners, educators, and researchers. Unfortunately, there remains an inadequate supply of residency-trained clinical specialists to meet the needs of our health care system, and nonspecialists often are called on to fill open specialist positions. The impact of clinical pharma...

Clinical trials increasingly occured in Asia during the past years as pharmaceutical industries embraced globalization in the clinical research fields. The trend is true with phase III clinical trials but not for early stage/phase I clinical trials in Asian countries is still under-represented. The conduct of phase I clinical trials is considered more sophisticated and difficult than the later ...