USA, CRISMA (Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness) Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School ofMedicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Me...

The survey data sets are important sources of data and their successful exploitation is of key importance for informed policy-decision making. We present how a survey analysis approach initially developed for customer satisfaction research in marketing can be adapted for the introduction of clinical pharmacy services into hospital. We use two analytical approaches to extract relevant managerial...

It has been established that the developed information systems and databases make it possible to create a single space will unite drug manufacturers, intermediaries, pharmacies consumers, government structures, pharmaceutical enterprises companies. Such unified an opportunity conduct various researches in real time. proven study of course "Pharmacoinformatics" higher education institutions Ukra...

introduction: one of the software packages designed for libraries and documenting centres is unesco cds/isis mini-micro software package. most libraries in iran have a copy of it. this research was aimed to investigate the degree of its application in central libraries of medical sciences universities in 2004. methods and materials: it is a descriptive study in which a questionnaire was used to...

Electronic health records (EHRs) and clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) have the potential to enhance antimicrobial stewardship. Numerous EHRs and CDSSs are available and have the potential to enable all clinicians and antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) to more efficiently review pharmacy, microbiology, and clinical data. Literature evaluating the impact of EHRs and CDSSs on patie...

*Corresponding author: SM Abdur Rahman, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh. Tel: +88-02-9661920-73, ext-8166 Fax: +88-02-8615583 E-mail: [email protected] Foundation Project: Supported by the Ministry of Science, Information and Communication Technology (MOSICT), Government of the Peoples Republic of...

This paper, part of a series on hospital pharmacy across the globe, discusses current hospital pharmacy practice in Belgium. The paper is organized around the building blocks of the World Health Organization’s Health Systems Framework and covers the following topics: health information; health system leadership, governance, and financing; health workforce; health service delivery; access to med...

OBJECTIVE Performance of computerized adverse drug event (ADE) monitoring of electronic health records through a prospective ADE Monitor and ICD9-coded clinical text review operating independently and simultaneously on the same patient population for a 10-year period are compared. Requirements are compiled for clinical decision support in pharmacy systems to enhance ADE detection. METHODS A l...