MADALINA VIERIU1, GLADIOLA TANTARU1, MIHAI APOSTU1, ALINA DIANA PANAINTE1, LUMINITA AGOROAEI2*, LIVIA UNCU3, NELA BIBIRE1 1 ”Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, 16 University Str., 700115, Iasi, Romania 2 “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Toxicology,16 Universitatii Str., 700115, Iasi, Romania 3 ...

As part of an ongoing multi-year project investigating hospital-based clinical pharmacy services, the variation in clinical pharmacy services among hospitals with various teaching affiliations was studied. Survey documents, completed by the director of pharmacy, were completed for 1597 hospitals, representing 43 percent of the nation’s acute care general medical surgical hospitals. Hospitals we...

BACKGROUND This study assessed pharmacy performance and satisfaction as reported by patients during ovulation induction therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients (n = 1269) receiving gonadotropin prescriptions for intrauterine insemination or in vitro fertilisation-embryo transfer in 2007-2008 were prospectively interviewed by nurses and/or completed a structured questionnaire to evaluate pharm...

Copyright © 2005, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Inc. All rights reserved. 1079-2082/05/0402-0856$06.00. There is a pressing need to prepare health-system pharmacists for executive-level positions, motivate them to step into these roles and educate health-system administrators about the value a pharmacist in such a position could bring to his or her organization. To do this, the...

BACKGROUND New accreditation standards implemented in 2007 have required schools of pharmacy to evaluate their existing curricula. An issue frequently encountered is the limited amount of content in the pharmacy curriculum specific to managed care and the role and function of pharmacy benefit management companies (PBMs). OBJECTIVE To determine pharmacy student knowledge and opinions about man...

OBJECTIVE To review the published English literature regarding international hospital pharmacy practice. DATA SOURCES A computer search of all English-language articles in MEDLINE (1966-June 2004) and other Internet sources and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (1971-June 2004). STUDY SELECTION AND DATA EXTRACTION All studies that discussed hospital pharmacy or clinical hospital pharma...

......................................................................................... II CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCING THE STUDY ............................................. 1 THE PERSONAL CONTEXT ........................................................................... 2 THE PROFESSIONAL CONTEXT ...................................................................... 5 THE REGISTERED PHARMACIST...

Many professional organizations have initiatives to increase the awareness and use of informatics in the practice of pharmacy. Within education we must respond to these initiatives and make technology integral to all aspects of the curriculum, inculcating in students the importance of technology in practice. This document proposes 5 central domains for organizing planning related to informatics...

Many pharmacy schools have increased the amount of economics coursework to which pharmacy students are exposed in their prepharmacy and pharmacy curriculums. Students obtain competencies aimed at understanding the basic concepts of microeconomic theory, such as supply and demand. However, pharmacy students often have trouble applying these principles to real world pharmaceuticals or healthcare ...