General Clinical Research Center, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University (J.Z.J., T.T., B.B.H., T.T.G., Q.Y.M., H.G.X.); Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Basic Medicine and Clinical Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University (H.G.X.); and Departments of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, Nanjing Medical University School of Pharmacy (H.G.X.), Nanjing, China This article ha...

Developed through the ASHP Council on Pharmacy Management and approved by the ASHP Board of Directors on January 15, 2009. These guidelines supersede the ASHP Guidelines on Managing Drug Product Shortages dated March 28, 2001. Erin R. Fox, Pharm.D., is Director, Drug Information Service, University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics, Salt Lake City. Annette Birt, M.B.A., M.P.H., is Pharmacy Communicat...

In the last five years, Moroccan e-health system has focused on improving the quality of patient care services by making use of advanced Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) solutions. In actual fact, achieving runtime and efficient information sharing, through large-scale distributed environments such as e-health system, is not a trivial task. It seems to present many issues due t...

A review of the development of clinical pharmacy in the UK reveals that its origins stem from the mid 70's when many undergraduates received short clinical attachments with physicians. The evolution was accelerated by the appointment of pharmacists who held joint university and hospital contracts. Innovative postgraduate diploma and masters programmes in clinical pharmacy established in the ear...

for the time being our pharmacy curriculum is in iran mostly based on lecturing methods as instructional strategies. in this method of education a great deal of declarative knowledge as well as a large number of students could be covered at the same time. indeed based on the job description of a pharmacist, pharmacy graduates should work in a relevant field in pharmacy retail, in order to be ab...

Part of the vision of the Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy (CJHP)1 is to share information on “patient-centred pharmacy practice in hospitals and other collaborative health care settings . . . throughout the world.” With this in mind, the Journal will be publishing a series of papers describing health care systems around the globe and the role that pharmacists play within these systems. By...

Clinical Pharmacy Services (CPS) play important roles in the clinical setting. This study aims to evaluate CPS based on Doctors’ perception at Universitas Sumatera Utara Hospital, Medan, Indonesia. It was a mixed methods descriptive that used Importance–Performance Analysis (IPA). The quantitative and qualitative data were accessed simultaneously semi-structured interview using questionnaires a...

OBJECTIVES To critically discuss the need for pharmacists to underpin their consultations with appropriate 'clinical empathy' as part of effective medicines optimisation. METHODS Use of literature around empathy, consultation and pharmacy practice to develop a case for greater clinical empathy in pharmacy consultations. KEY FINDINGS Clinical empathy is defined from the literature and applie...