conclusions: the patients' waiting times and the number of patients waiting to receive services in both shifts could be reduced by using multitasking persons and reallocating them to the time-consuming stage of filling prescriptions, using queuing theory and simulation techniques. background: hospital pharmacy is responsible for controlling and monitoring the medication use process and ensures ...

OBJECTIVE To determine if hospital-based clinical pharmacy services and pharmacy staffing continue to be associated with mortality rates. METHODS A database was constructed from 1998 MedPAR, American Hospital Association's Annual Survey of Hospitals, and National Clinical Pharmacy Services databases, consisting of data from 2,836,991 patients in 885 hospitals. Data from hospitals that had 14 ...

Hospital pharmacy practice has undergone many changes over the past 3 decades. New technologies, such as automated repackaging, robotic unit-dose cart-fill systems, and automated dispensing cabinets, have improved the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of drug distribution systems. In addition, new pharmacy practice models have been introduced in which pharmacists accept responsibility and ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the satisfaction rate of hospital managerial/clinical teams (HMCTs) including principles (chief executives), managers, supervisor pharmacists and head nurses from services presented by private sectors directing 10 pharmacy departments in hospitals affiliated to Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.This study is an observational and descriptive stu...

1»Titu Maiorescu« University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Center for Rheumatic Diseases, Bucharest, Romania 2»Carol Davila« University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Clinic of Neurology, Colentina Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania 3University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Immunology, Craiova, Romania 4»Carol Davila« University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Clinical Hospi...

Uncomplicated Gram-negative Bacteremia in a Tertiary Inistituition Yvonne Peijun Zhou, BSc (Pharm)(Hons); Sarah Tang, BSc (Pharm)(Hons); Yixin Liew, BSc (Pharm), MSc (ID); Jin Cheng Lim, MPharm (Hons); Andrea Kwa, PharmD; Winnie Lee, BPharm (Hons), MSc (Epi); Pharmacy, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore; Singapore General Hospital, Singapore; Department of Pharmacy, Singapore General Hospita...

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 ...

Although hospital pharmacists are recognized for its importance as health care provider in many developed countries, in most developing countries it is still underutilized. The aim of the present study was to summarize the current situation of pharmacy practices in five hospitals of Bangladesh and to identify the pharmacist’s roles in these seftap. The study was conducted through convenient sam...

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...