BACKGROUND Preventable adverse drug events (pADEs) are widely known to be a health care issue for hospitalized patients. Surgical patients are especially at risk, but prevention of pADEs in this population is not demonstrated before. Ward-based pharmacy interventions seem effective in reducing pADEs in medical patients. The cost-effectiveness of these preventive efforts still needs to be assess...

OBJECTIVE To describe the establishment of the Pharmaceutical Care Leadership Residency Program (PCLRP), a residency experience that prepares graduates to take responsibility for leading practice change in pharmacy. SETTING University-based residency program focused on delivery of pharmaceutical care in ambulatory care settings. PRACTICE DESCRIPTION AND INNOVATION: Currently, ambulatory care ...

BACKGROUND Pharmacists in Australia are accessible health care professionals, and their provision of clinical pharmacy interventions in a range of areas has been proven to improve patient outcomes. Individual clinical pharmacy interventions in the area of asthma management have been very successful. An understanding of the nature of these interventions will inform future pharmacy services. What...

LAVINIA LIA VLAIA1, VICENTIU VLAIA2*, IOANA VIORICA OLARIU1, ANA MARIA MUT1, CARMEN ANATOLIA GAFITANU3, CRISTINA DEHELEAN4, DAN NAVOLAN5*, DUMITRU LUPULEASA6, GEORGETA HERMINA CONEAC1 1Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, 1 Eftimie Murgu Sq., 300041, Timisoara, Romania 2 Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, ...

INTRODUCTION A number of identified factors can influence clinicians' location of practice decisions; however, little is known about the location decisions of pharmacists. In general, males are more likely to work in rural and remote regions, and students with a rural background are more likely to work in rural communities after graduation. In the Ukraine, pharmaceutical health care is importan...

OBJECTIVE To determine if hospital-based clinical pharmacy services and pharmacy staffing continue to be associated with mortality rates. METHODS A database was constructed from 1998 MedPAR, American Hospital Association's Annual Survey of Hospitals, and National Clinical Pharmacy Services databases, consisting of data from 2,836,991 patients in 885 hospitals. Data from hospitals that had 14 ...

BACKGROUND In many developing countries, private pharmacies play an important role in providing health information and services to local communities for common health issues. The aim of this study was to ascertain medium-term impact of educational interventions on knowledge and practice of pharmacy staff regarding management of childhood diarrhea in Vietnam. METHODS This was a pre- and post-i...

OBJECTIVE To determine if a prototype pharmacists' services evaluation programme that uses linked community pharmacy claims and health administrative data to measure pharmacists' performance can be used to identify characteristics of pharmacies providing higher quality of care. DESIGN Population-based cohort study using community pharmacy claims from 1 November 2009 to 30 June 2010. SETTING...