Nancy Brahm, Pharm.D., M.S.*, Merry Kelly-Rehm, R.N., M.S., Kevin C. Farmer, Ph.D. Department of Pharmacy: Clinical and Administrative Sciences, University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy, 4502 E. 41st Street, 2H17, Tulsa, OK 74135, USA School of Nursing, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74104, USA Department of Pharmacy: Clinical and Administrative Sciences, University of Oklahoma College of Pha...

Cynthia Brennan, Pharm.D., m.h.a., FaShP, is retired; at the time of writing she was Director of Clinical Excellence, University of Washington (UW) Medicine Pharmacy Services, and Clinical Professor, School of Pharmacy, UW, Seattle. Kim Donnelly, B.S.Pharm., is Director of Operations, Inpatient Pharmacy, UW Medical Center, Seattle, and Affiliate Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, UW. ShaB...

During the past several years, the emphasis on quality in health care has been evolving. Alongside this evolution of change has been the advancement of clinical pharmacy services in ambulatory care settings. Although they share importance, both health care quality and ambulatory clinical pharmacy services have progressed and moved in their own directions. Nevertheless, in today’s evolving healt...

1 Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, No. 250, Wuxing Street, Xinyi District, Taipei 110, Taiwan 2Department of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University-Wan Fang Hospital, No. 111, Section 3, Xinglong Road, Wenshan District, Taipei 116, Taiwan 3Master Program for Clinical Pharmacogenomics and Pharmacoproteomics, School of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical Universit...

As part of an ongoing multi-year project investigating hospital-based clinical pharmacy services, the variation in clinical pharmacy services among hospitals with various teaching affiliations was studied. Survey documents, completed by the director of pharmacy, were completed for 1597 hospitals, representing 43 percent of the nation’s acute care general medical surgical hospitals. Hospitals we...

PURPOSE Economic evaluations of clinical pharmacy interventions are reviewed. SUMMARY A variety of clinical pharmacy interventions have been assessed, but the body of evidence relating to any particular type of intervention is small. Cost-saving interventions comprise a small percentage of clinical pharmacy interventions, but they generated substantial savings. Clinical pharmacists provided a...

OBJECTIVE Clinical pharmacy practice has developed internationally to expand the role of a pharmacist well beyond the traditional roles of compounding and supplying drugs to roles more directly in caring for patients and providing medication consultation to staff. This area of practice is at the infant stage in Ethiopia. The aim of this study was to explore key informants' perspective in the im...

One priority in achieving “the vision for pharmacy” is to have both pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in all settings contributing to optimal drug therapy outcomes. The context for our argument that pharmacy technicians should provide clinical services and perform patient care activities in areas without a pharmacist can be derived by considering a secondary question: Would patient care be o...

Harmonization of pharmacy education has to be made a global agenda that will encompass the developments that have taken place in basic, medical, pharmaceutical sciences in serving the needs and expectations of the society. The professional pharmacy curriculum is designed to produce pharmacists who have the abilities and skills to provide drug information, education, and pharmaceutical care to p...

1Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy, Clinical Translational Science Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 3Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pi...