BACKGROUND Pharmacists can provide beneficial pharmaceutical care services to patients receiving Parenteral Nutrition (PN) therapy by working within Nutrition Support Teams (NSTs). OBJECTIVE This study was designed to explore pharmacists' role in PN therapy in hospitals of Kuwait, sources of PN-related information, opinions on NSTs, perceptions about the barriers to pharmaceutical care implem...

BACKGROUND The evolving role of pharmacists in providing pharmaceutical care, as part of the healthcare team, challenges them to acquire up-to-date knowledge of medicines to make the best clinical decisions. The volume of medical literature is on the increase, and it is important to utilise these resources to optimise patients' therapeutic outcomes. This study aimed at assessing the readiness o...

The 2012 American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Certification Affairs Committee was charged with developing guidelines for the desired professional development pathways for clinical pharmacists. This document summarizes recommendations for postgraduate education and training for graduates of U.S. schools and colleges of pharmacy and describes the preferred pathways for achieving, demonstr...

Pharmacists are expected to deliver pharmaceutical care, that is, to accept responsibility for patients' well-being by ensuring optimum outcomes of drug therapy. Therefore, their performance must be evaluated based on this expectation. The template should be a useful tool for assessing the extent to which clinical pharmacists' performance meets predefined practice standards. Its adaptability wi...

Background Hospital pharmacists play a central role in medication safety activities. However, in Ethiopia, this role has been launched recently and little is known regarding the current status of this extended service. Using the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF), we aimed to identify the barriers and facilitators to hospital pharmacists' engagement in medication safety activities across vario...

TO THE EDITOR—The importance of antimicrobial stewardship (AS) to the future of healthcare is emphasized by recent statements of the US government calling for widespread implementation of robust AS programs, which applies to >5700 US hospitals [1]. The Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America guidelines for developing an institutional program...

UNLABELLED Limitations on health care resources necessitate careful focus on activities that lead to the greatest improvement in patient outcomes. Despite the importance of aligning pharmacists' time with activities deriving the most impact, there is a paucity of literature on the correlations between pharmacists' perceptions of the impact of their activities, how they actually spend their time...

The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) continues to increase. Patients with stage 1 to 5 CKD and those undergoing dialysis are at extremely high risk for drug therapy problems (DTPs). In controlled trials involving general patient populations, clinical pharmacist interventions have reduced hospital admissions, length of hospital stay, readmissions, and emergency department visits. The a...

In 2006, the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) released a position statement and a white paper to provide the College's viewpoints on the importance of postgraduate pharmacy residency training as a prerequisite for direct patient care practice and the vision that future clinical pharmacists engaged in direct patient care would be certified by the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS). ...