Unique pharmacist competency program at community-based, teaching hospitals

Patient safety in community-based teaching hospitals

I t has been over 10 years since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) re-ignited the patient safety movement in the United States with their publication ‘To Err is Human’. Five years after that publication there were modest improvements in certain indicators like death in low mortality Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs), iatrogenic pneumothorax, and certain postoperative complications. At that time the...

Clinical Impact of an Antibiotic Stewarship Program at Two Non-Teaching Community Hospitals

240Effectiveness of a Pharmacist Driven Antibiotic Stewardship Program at Two Critical Access Hospitals Using a Remote Infectious Diseases Pharmacist

240. Effectiveness of a Pharmacist Driven Antibiotic Stewardship Program at Two Critical Access Hospitals Using a Remote Infectious Diseases Pharmacist Emily Herstine, PharmD, BCPS; Scott Erickson, RPh, MBA; Sarah Leslie, PharmD, BCPS; Jessica Holt, PharmD, BCPS-ID; Pharmacy, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN; Pharmacy, River Falls Area Hospital, River Falls, WI; Pharmacy, New Ulm M...

611Early Impact of a Pharmacist-led Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Conducted without Clinical Decision-support Software at a Community Teaching Hospital

Pharmacist perceptions of new competency standards

OBJECTIVE To suggest revisions to the Thai pharmacy competency standards and determine the perceptions of Thai pharmacy practitioners and faculty about the proposed pharmacy competency standards. METHODS The current competency standards were revised by brainstorming session with nine Thai pharmacy experts according to their perceptions of society's pharmacy needs. The revised standards were p...