Pharmacy education in Indonesia mainly involves a four-year undergraduate degree, followed by one-year professional pharmacy programme. The curriculum and learning outcomes of programmes follow academic standards set the Association Indonesian Higher Education, based on Seven Star Pharmacist concept developed World Health Organisation (WHO). Most are focused general skills knowledge, which incl...

Background There is strong evidence supporting that pharmacist involvement strengthens the quality of the medication process. There is also evidence indicating that many emergency admissions among the elderly are medicine related. Based on this existing knowledge, it was decided to investigate whether implementation of clinical pharmacy in the Emergency Department could make a further difference.

Doctors and Pharmacists play a foremost role in safe, effective use of medication in health care. Still, there is no database available through which Doctor can communicate with all field of pharmacy such as hospital Pharmacy, Clinical Pharmacy, Community Pharmacy, Nutrition Pharmacy and Drug research center so that they would like to cooperate with pharmacists in Medication error prevention, D...

background: accurate and timely information and communication are vital to adequately prepare individual health organizations for emergency events. the current article investigated health-related communication and information systems for emergency management in iran. methods: the present study was conducted in 2009 with a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach. simple random purposeful sam...

The purposes of these guidelines are to (1) propose goals and objectives for the safe use of automated dispensing devices in the medication-use process, (2) provide guidance on the safe use of automated dispensing devices to pharmacists and others involved in the medication-use process, (3) advise vendors of automated dispensing devices about the safety needs of health care professionals who us...

The American College of Clinical Pharmacy and other stakeholder organizations seek to advance clinical pharmacist practitioners, educators, and researchers. Unfortunately, there remains an inadequate supply of residency-trained clinical specialists to meet the needs of our health care system, and nonspecialists often are called on to fill open specialist positions. The impact of clinical pharma...

clinical pharmacy is deemed an integral component of a health care system. the presence of clinical pharmacists in medical rounds could assist physicians in optimizing patients' pharmacotherapy. moreover, clinical pharmacists may reduce adverse effects and medication errors insofar as they contribute significantly to the detection and management of drug-related problems, not least in patients w...

The following are contributors to the writing of this paper (in alphabetical order): Hildegarde Berdine, PharmD, BCPS,CDE Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Duquesne University, Mylan School of Pharmacy; Tanya Dougherty, PharmD, BCPS, Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; Jonathan Ference, PharmD, BCPS, Associate Professor, Wilkes University School of Pharmacy ...

Melissa T. Baysari1,2; Jessica Del Gigante3; Maria Moran4; Indy Sandaradura2,5; Ling Li1; Katrina L. Richardson6; Anmol Sandhu3; Elin C. Lehnbom7; Johanna I. Westbrook1; Richard O. Day2,4 1Centre for Health Systems & Safety Research, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney Australia; 2St Vincent’s Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Australia; 3Department ...