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...

ROBERT C. OWENS, JR.,* MARY ANNE BANEVICIUS, DAVID P. NICOLAU, CHARLES H. NIGHTINGALE, AND RICHARD QUINTILIANI Department of Clinical Pharmacy Services, Medical Center of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19718; School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201; Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104; and Department of Pharmacy Research, Offi...

Pharmacy is one of the services providing the hospital. Its mission concerns the supply of the drugs for the patients which remain in the hospital. This paper describes the modelling methodology used to specify a knowledge model of the pharmacy service of a new French hospital. We first describe the pharmacy service of the old hospital using ARIS analysis tool, then we define the functioning of...

background: health system pharmacies, like other health care professional, practice under a number of mandated stan­dards. basic concepts of quality assurance (qa) standards should be applied to hospital pharmacy practice. the survey re­ported here is to assess qa system implementation and its standard indicators observation in tehran university of medical sci­ences (tums) hospitals' pharmacies...

OBJECTIVE To review the international body of literature from 2010 to 2015 concerning methods of economic evaluations used in hospital- and community-based studies of pharmacy services in publicly funded health systems worldwide, their clinical outcomes, and economic effectiveness. DATA SOURCES The literature search was undertaken between May 2, 2015, and September 4, 2015. Keywords included ...

I want to thank the Northeastern University School of Pharmacy for the honor of being named the 2008 John W. Webb award recipient. This award, dedicated to an individual who exemplified hospital pharmacy leadership, is very important to me personally, since leadership development has been the focus of my career in health-system pharmacy administration. I have had the privilege of being a member...

A joint initiative of the Patient Services Section and the Drug and Therapeutics Information Service of the Pharmacy Department, Repatriation General Hospital, Daw Park, South Australia. The RGH Pharmacy E-Bulletin is distributed in electronic format on a weekly basis, and aims to present concise, factual information on issues of current interest in therapeutics, drug safety and cost-effective ...

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 ...