OBJECTIVE To update the Pharmacy Technician Certification Examination based on analysis of pharmacy practice elements (functions, responsibilities, and knowledge). DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING United States in spring 2005. INTERVENTIONS Web-based survey. PARTICIPANTS Random sample of 4,000 Certified Pharmacy Technicians (CPhTs). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Respondents' ratings of e...

OBJECTIVE Clinical pharmacy practice has developed internationally to expand the role of a pharmacist well beyond the traditional roles of compounding and supplying drugs to roles more directly in caring for patients and providing medication consultation to staff. This area of practice is at the infant stage in Ethiopia. The aim of this study was to explore key informants' perspective in the im...

Corresponding author: Edward Chia-Cheng Lai PhD School of Pharmacy Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences College of Medicine National Cheng Kung University No. 1, University Road Tainan 701, Taiwan Phone: +886-6-2353535 E-mail: tb8991010@mail. ncku.edu.tw 1 Department of Pharmacy, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan 2 School of Pharmacy, Institute of Clinical Phar...

729. Impact of An Electronic “Antibiotic Time Out” on Provider Prescribing Patterns Sui Kwong Li, MD; James S. Lewis II, PharmD, FIDSA; Graeme N. Forrest, MBBS, FIDSA; Miriam R. Elman, MPH and Jessina C. McGregor, PhD; Division of Infectious Diseases, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, Department of Pharmacy, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, Division of I...

729. Impact of An Electronic “Antibiotic Time Out” on Provider Prescribing Patterns Sui Kwong Li, MD; James S. Lewis II, PharmD, FIDSA; Graeme N. Forrest, MBBS, FIDSA; Miriam R. Elman, MPH and Jessina C. McGregor, PhD; Division of Infectious Diseases, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, Department of Pharmacy, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, Division of I...

ROBERT POPOVIAN, PHARM.D., MS., is Senior Medical Liaison, PJizer, Inc. At the time oj this study, he was Bristol-Myers Squibb Fellow, Department oj Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, University oj Southern California School oj Pharmacy, Los Angeles, CA; KATHLEEN A. JOHNSON, PHARM.D., PH.D., is Associate proJessor oj Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, University oj Sou...

Problem-based learning has been increasingly used in pharmacy education. Problem-based learning serves to enhance such skills as problem-solving, critical thinking, clinical reasoning and self-directed learning. The present review draws on previous research into PBL in medical education, and elucidates the applications and outcomes of PBL as applied to pharmacy education. Thus, this article ser...

conclusions: the patients' waiting times and the number of patients waiting to receive services in both shifts could be reduced by using multitasking persons and reallocating them to the time-consuming stage of filling prescriptions, using queuing theory and simulation techniques. background: hospital pharmacy is responsible for controlling and monitoring the medication use process and ensures ...

BACKGROUND Naturopaths and Western herbal medicine (WHM) practitioners were surveyed to identify their extent, experience and roles within the community pharmacy setting and to explore their attitudes to integration of complementary medicine (CM) practitioners within the pharmacy setting. METHOD Practising naturopaths and WHM practitioners were invited to participate in an anonymous, self-adm...