A business-practice model is a guide, or toolkit, to assist managers and clinical pharmacy practitioners in the exploration, proposal, development and implementation of new clinical pharmacy services and/or the enhancement of existing services. This document was developed by the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Task Force on Ambulatory Practice to assist clinical pharmacy practitioners and...

1Ghenadie Pascarenco, 1Marius F. Coros, 2Ofelia D. Pascarenco, 1Sorin Sorlea, 3Adrian M. Maghiar 1 IIIrd Surgical Departament, County Clinical Hospital, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Târgu Mureş, Romania; 2 Department of Gastroenterology, County Clinical Hospital, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Târgu Mureş, Romania; 3 University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Surgical Departament, Pelic...

Issues facing pharmacy leaders in 2015 include practice model growth and the role of pharmacy students, clinical privileging of health-system pharmacists and provider status, medication error prevention, and specialty pharmacy services. The goal of this article is to provide practical approaches to 4 issues facing pharmacy leaders in 2015 to help them focus their department's goals. This articl...

Clinical pharmacy is a patient-centred pharmaceutical practice. The main objective is to ensure themost appropriate and safe use of medicines. A second related objective is to optimise medicines use atthe lowest possible costs. Clinical pharmacy services have existed for many years in North Americaand the UK, and they can be provided from the hospital pharmacy department (centra...

T he importance of clinical trials in children in providing a scientific evidence base for drug therapy is accepted by health professionals, regulatory authorities, the pharmaceutical industry, and the parents of children. Legislation in the USA alongside government investment in research has resulted in a significant increase in paediatric clinical trials in North America. European legislation...

1 Department of Medical Genetics, ”Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; 2 Research Center for Functional Genomics Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, ”Iuliu Hatieganu “ University of Medicine Pharmacy, Cluj -Napoca, Romania; 3 Oncology Institute, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; 4 Department of Internal Medicine “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharma...

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 ...

It has been over 30 years since the first articles describing payment models for clinical pharmacy services were published. The purpose of this editorial is not to simply revisit the problem that most pharmacists already understand all too well, but to provide a fresh perspective on the pharmacy profession’s continued challenges, to highlight the opportunities (or threats) presented in the Pati...

The American College of Clinical Pharmacy 2013 Educational Affairs Committee was charged with developing recommendations for the minimum qualifications required for clinical pharmacy practice faculty in United States colleges and schools of pharmacy with respect to education, postgraduate training, board certification, and other experiences. From a review of the literature, the committee recomm...