the aim of this research is to assess the impact of clinical pharmacist-provided education on medication adherence in haemodialysis patients. ninety haemodialysis patients were randomized into two groups. brief medication questionnaire (bmq), a tool for screening adherence was administered to both groups at the baseline to assess adherence to antihypertensives, vitamin d analogues, phosphate bi...

any suboptimum treatment in the management of patients can lead to medication errors (mes) that may increase morbidity and mortality in hospitalized individuals. by establishing well-designed patient care activities within the managed care setting, clinical pharmacists can cooperate with other health care professionals to provide quality care and maximize safety. the aim of this study was to ev...

background: stress is an important element of organization ineffectiveness and since it leads to sickness, eventually it reduces quality and quantity of health care, lead to expansion of it costs and low job satisfaction. stress comes along with consequences, one of this reactions which comes along with horrible effects is job burnout. health care are more exposed for job burnout. we examined t...

      The aim of this research is to assess the impact of clinical pharmacist-provided education on medication adherence in haemodialysis patients. Ninety haemodialysis patients were randomized into two groups. Brief medication questionnaire (BMQ), a tool for screening adherence was administered to both groups at the baseline to assess adherence to antihypertensives, vitamin D analogues, phosph...

drug-food interactions can increase or decrease drug effects, resulting in therapeutic failure or toxicity. activities that reduce these interactions play an important role for clinical pharmacists. this study was planned and performed in order to determine the role of clinical pharmacist in the prevention of absorption drug-food interactions through educating the nurses in a teaching hospital ...

the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of medication errors happened during the preparation and administration of intravenous (iv) drugs. this study was designed as prospective cross-sectional evaluations by direct unconcealed observation in a setting consisted of orthopedic, general surgery and gastroenterology wards of a teaching hospital. participants were those patients hospit...

medication errors have important effects on increased length of hospitalization, increased mortality and costs. we assessed the incidence of medication errors and characterize the error types in an emergency department in a large teaching hospital in tehran. we also investigated the effect of emergency department pharmacists on patient safety with regard to recovery of potentially harmful medic...

detection of adverse drug reactions (adrs) in hospitals provides an important measure of the burden of drug related morbidity on the healthcare system. spontaneous reporting of adrs is scare and several obstacles to such reporting have been identified formerly. this study aimed to determine the role of clinical pharmacy residents in adr reporting within a hospital setting.clinical pharmacy resi...

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 ...

OBJECTIVE To define the role and education of the traditional pharmacist who supports the needs of the veterinarian (hereafter referred to as veterinary pharmacist) and a pharmacist who practices solely in veterinary pharmacy (here after referred to as veterinary pharmacy specialist). METHODS The Delphi technique involving 7 panels of 143 experts was employed to reach consensus on the definit...