Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe integration of a community-based patient care service development model, Partner for Promotion (PFP), within five community pharmacy residency programs (CPRPs) across the United States and provide insights and examples of methods for optimizing community pharmacy resident experiences, developing new patient care services, and achieving residency...

The ABC and VED (vital, essential, desirable) analysis of the pharmacy store of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India, was conducted to identify the categories of items needing stringent management control. The annual consumption and expenditure incurred on each item of pharmacy for the year 2007-08 was analyzed and inventory control techniques, i...

GABRIELA LAURA ALMAJAN1*, STEFANIA FELICIA BARBUCEANU1, IOANA SARAMET1, MIHAELA DINU2, CRISTIAN VASILE DOICIN3,CONSTANTIN DRAGHICI4 1 Organic Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Traian Vuia Street 6, 020956, Bucharest, Romania 2 Pharmaceutical Botany Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Traian Vuia Street 6, 020956, Bucharest, Romania 3 Manufacturing Engineering Department, Faculty of Engine...

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 investigate systematically participation in audit of NHS hospital pharmacists in the United Kingdom. DESIGN Questionnaire census survey. SETTING All NHS hospital pharmacies in the UK providing clinical pharmacy services. SUBJECTS 462 hospital pharmacies. MAIN MEASURES Extent and nature of participation in medical, clinical, and pharmacy audits according to hospital manageme...

In the week before Hurricane Katrina's landfall in August 2005, emergency management officials in Jefferson County (Birmingham), Alabama, began to make plans for the potential influx of evacuees from the Gulf Coast. No pharmacy component to the plan was in place at that time. The Jefferson County Department of Health (JCDH) discovered that local pharmacies and hospital emergency departments wer...

BACKGROUND Asthma management in Australia is suboptimal. The "Guidelines for provision of a Pharmacist Only medicine: short acting beta agonists" (SABA guidelines) and a novel West Australian "Asthma Action Plan card" (AAP card) were concurrently developed to improve asthma management. The aim of this qualitative research was to evaluate the collaborative, multidisciplinary and multifaceted imp...