The PHARMINE ("Pharmacy Education in Europe") project studied the organisation of pharmacy practice and education in the member states of the European Union (EU). The work was carried out using an electronic survey sent to chosen pharmacy representatives. The surveys of the individual member states are now being published as reference documents. This paper presents the results of the PHARMINE s...

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...

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In the past decade, Canadian pharmacy education and training programs have adopted competency-based frameworks for practice and education. However, there remains a lack of standardization and harmony across the multiple sets of standards that guide pharmacy practice and education. In addition to various provincial standards, there are currently 3 national standards of practice governing the dev...

OBJECTIVE Nuclear pharmacy was the first formally recognized area in pharmacy designated as a specialty practice. The events leading to nuclear pharmacy specialty recognition are described in this article. After reading this article the nuclear medicine technologist or nuclear pharmacist should be able to: (a) describe the status of nuclear pharmacy before recognition as a specialty practice; (...

OBJECTIVES To describe and compare perceptions of key informants representing U.S. colleges/schools of pharmacy and community pharmacy practice sites regarding (1) value associated with community pharmacy residency programs (CPRPs) and (2) barriers to offering CPRPs . DESIGN Descriptive, non-experimental, cross-sectional study. SETTING United States, June 13, 2009, through July 13, 2009. ...

Pharmacy practice leaders in hospitals and health systems have a distinguished history of advancing health-system pharmacy practice beyond the minimum required by law, regulation, and accreditation. The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) supports those efforts by developing and disseminating a comprehensive body of evidence-based, peer-reviewed descriptions of best practices 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...