Improving Afghanistan Pharmacy Practices and Services

Improving pharmacy revenue integrity.

Billings Clinic learned the following important lessons in implementing a pharmacy revenue integrity initiative: Integrate pharmacy data as fully as possible. Audit and review pharmacy data regularly to validate the data and identify key areas where education can be provided to support accuracy and compliance. Use technology to bridge gaps between pharmacy data, such as gaps in billable units a...

Clinical pharmacy services, pharmacy staffing, and hospital mortality rates.

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 ...

Best of both worlds: a comparison of canadian and international best practices for hospital pharmacy services.

Quality of pharmacy services and regulatory compliance

A study by Syed Shaukat Muttaqi and colleagues on “Quality of Drug Stores, Storage practices and Regulatory compliance being published in this issue makes startling disclosures which are of course not unexpected. The investigators inspected one thousand three drug stores in Karachi excluding those located inside the Government run healthcare facilities and found that only 4.1%(41 drug stores) w...

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices regarding Avian Influenza (H5N1), Afghanistan

From February through April 2007, avian influenza (H5N1) was confirmed in poultry in 4 of 34 Afghan provinces. A survey conducted in 2 affected and 3 unaffected provinces found that greater knowledge about reducing exposure was associated with higher socioeconomic status, residence in affected provinces, and not owning backyard poultry.