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...

UNLABELLED The use of herbal medicines among Nigerian patients and the tendency to combine this class of medicines with allopathic drugs while on hospital admission have been on the increase. Earlier studies show that community pharmacists from Nigeria believe that they need more training to counsel patients on their use of herbal medications. OBJECTIVE To evaluate knowledge base, use, accept...

Introduction: Hypertension is a strong independent risk factor for coronary and cerebrovascular diseases, as well heart failure, atrialfibrillation chronic renal thus substantially contributing to the global burden of disease. Moreover, it known that reducing blood pressure (BP) in hypertensive patientsis associated with significant reduction rate cardiovascular complications adecline function....

More than a decade ago, Hepler and Strand1,2 introduced the concept that the therapeutic relationship between pharmacist and patient was an integral component of pharmaceutical care. They saw pharmaceutical care as “a covenantal relationship between a patient and a pharmacist in which the pharmacist performs drug use control functions (with appropriate knowledge and skill) governed by the aware...

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AIM To perform a comparative analysis of the pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement systems in Croatia and the 27 European Union (EU) Member States. METHODS Knowledge about the pharmaceutical systems in Croatia and the 27 EU Member States was acquired by literature review and primary research with stakeholders. RESULTS Pharmaceutical prices are controlled at all levels in Croatia, which i...

research on ambidexterity is burgeoning, yet understanding of the antecedents and consequences of both activities remains rather unclear. the purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of knowledge sharing on organizational ambidexterity (exploration and exploitation) as well as the mediating effect of mediating role of absorptive capacity. the research statistical population constitutes 9...

pharmaceutical industry is currently undergoing a transient phase with new orientation. loss of financial resources, presence of new therapeutic agents and increasing cost of research and development have called for a full.scale restructuring within the pharmaceutical industry to retain even the most basic competitiveness. the development of new technologies has been as one way out of the dilem...

PURPOSE To assess the degree of satisfaction and expressed needs of pharmaceutical care services in patients with chronic diseases and explore the factors related to the needs from patients' perspectives for the further development of pharmaceutical care service models. PATIENTS AND METHODS A cross-sectional survey of 220 patients (mean age ± SD: 61.3±13.1, male:female: 104:116) was conducted...