2. Recommendations from a University Hospital.

Evaluation of clinical pharmacist recommendations in the geriatric ward of a Belgian university hospital

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the type, acceptance rate, and clinical relevance of clinical pharmacist recommendations at the geriatric ward of the Ghent university hospital. METHODS The clinical pharmacist evaluated drug use during a weekly 2-hour visit for a period of 4 months and, if needed, made recommendations to the prescribing physician. The recommendations were classified according to type, a...

Sporadic Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma: Clinical Data From A University Hospital

INTRODUCTION Medullary thyroid carcinoma may occur in a sporadic (s-medullary thyroid carcinoma, 75%) or in a multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 form (MEN2, 25%). These clinical forms differ in many ways, as s-medullary thyroid carcinoma cases are RET-negative in the germline and are typically diagnosed later than medullary thyroid carcinoma in MEN2 patients. In this study, a set of cases with...

Plasmapheresis: a review from the University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur.

Staffing for hospital lactation programs: recommendations from a tertiary care teaching hospital.

A retrospective review of data from a lactation program's productivity reports at a large tertiary care teaching hospital (4200 births per year) measured actual hours worked by international board certified lactation consultants (IBCLCs) over a 2-year period, allocated the hours to their respective activities, and developed ratios for optimal IBCLC staffing for each component of service deliver...

Challenges and policy recommendations for IT governance in the University of Medical Sciences: a case study

Introduction: “Information and Communication Technology (ICT) governance” was introduced in developed countries in the late 1990s and replaced ICT management. In addition to the separation of the ICT responsibilities between different units/levels, ICT governance allowed universities to develop mechanisms for monitoring ICT decisions in line with the University's vision, mission, and strategic ...