Hellström, Lina, (2012). Clinical pharmacy services within a multiprofessional healthcare team. Linnaeus University Dissertations No 84/2012. ISBN: 978-91-86983-47-5. Written in English with a summary in Swedish. Background: The purpose of drug treatment is to reduce morbidity and mortality, and to improve health-related quality of life. However, there are frequent problems associated with drug...

BACKGROUND The role of hospital pharmacists has evolved over the past couple of decades from preparation and distribution of medications to active involvement in health care teams, through identification and resolution of patients' medication-related issues in an effort to improve patient outcomes. However, patients' preferences about pharmacy services are not well known. OBJECTIVE To use con...

BACKGROUND Since the establishment of free HIV/AIDS care and treatment services in Tanzania a lot of research has been done to assess how health care providers discharge their duties in these clinics. Little research however has been done regarding satisfaction of HIV patients with free health care services provided. OBJECTIVES To determine satisfaction of HIV patients with health care servic...

Pharmaciens sans frontières (also known as Pharmacists Without Borders—Canada or PSF-Canada) has an ongoing collaboration with St Mary’s Lacor Hospital (Lacor Hospital) in the Gulu district of northern Uganda. Founded by a group of Comboni missionaries in 1959 and developed by 2 physicians, Dr Lucille Teasdale and Dr Piero Corti, Lacor Hospital has grown from a small 30-bed institution to its c...

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 st...

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...

E.S. Kirkendall1, 2, 3,4; M. Kouril1; T. Minich2, 5; SA. Spooner1, 2, 3 1Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; 2Department of Information Services, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; 3Division of Hospital Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; 4James M. Anderson Cente...

Clinical Pharmacy Services (CPS) is provided by clinical pharmacists as members of the healthcare team. This beneficial for hospital care. Therefore, knowing nurses' perception CPS can determine quality and help in its improvement. study aims to pharmacy services at Universitas Sumatera Utara hospital, Medan, Indonesia. a descriptive that used Importance–Performance Analysis (IPA) method. The d...

Grha Permata Ibu Hospital is one of the major hospitals in Depok with adequate facilities its services. One main factor hospital services drug serviceat pharmacy. Often problema service long waiting time from provision, therefore this research was conducted to identify waste that occurs outpatient pharmacies using Lean method by making Value Stream Mapping (VSM) and Process Activity (PAM). This...

The complexity of cancer chemotherapy requires pharmacists be familiar with the complicated regimens and highly toxic agents used. This column reviews various issues related to preparation, dispensing, and administration of antineoplastic therapy, and the agents, both commercially available and investigational, used to treat malignant diseases. Questions or suggestions for topics should be addr...