Pharmaceutical services in surgery and anesthesiology should be the standard of practice in health care organizations across the United States. Although not essential, an onsite satellite pharmacy would help in the provision of these services. A majority of distribution-related activities should be done by technicians. The availability of automated devices and other technology may lessen, to so...

background and objectives: induced demand in healthcare is referred to as provision of unnecessary services or the patient by health services providers, while the patient is not aware of their unnecessity. apart from being unethical, this practice can potentially disturb the supply and demand balance in the health market, pose financial load on the patient, thread the patient’s health by imposi...

Community pharmacists, the most accessible member of health chain, have outreached from medicine dispensers to health professionals responsible for safe, effective and rational use of medicines besides patient counseling with drug information while other personnel of a pharmacy help to complete the health care services (1-3). " Most drug related problems are avoidable and community pharmacies a...

This paper describes the development process of the Pesquisa Nacional sobre Acesso, Utilização e Promoção do Uso Racional de Medicamentos (PNAUM - National Survey on Access, Use and Promotion of Rational Use of Medicines) based on an integrated approach to pharmaceutical services, science, technology and innovation. It starts by contextualizing health and development in Brazil and features elem...

E. JANTRATID, S. STRAUCH, C. BECKER, J.B. DRESSMAN, G.L. AMIDON, H.E. JUNGINGER, S. KOPP, K.K. MIDHA, V.P. SHAH, S. STAVCHANSKY, D.M. BARENDS Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Bayer Technology Services GmbH, Leverkusen, Germany College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Naresuan Univers...

BACKGROUND Nowadays pharmaceutical care departments located in hospitals are amongst the important pillars of the healthcare system. The aim of this study was to evaluate designing features and equipments of hospital drugstores affiliated with Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. METHODS In this cross-sectional study a self-defined and validated questionnaire was used which included all th...

More than a decade ago, Hepler and Strand1,2 introduced the concept that the therapeutic relationship between pharmacist and patient was an integral component of pharmaceutical care. They saw pharmaceutical care as “a covenantal relationship between a patient and a pharmacist in which the pharmacist performs drug use control functions (with appropriate knowledge and skill) governed by the aware...