A severe shortage of clinical pharmacists, especially in rural and remote areas, presents a
challenge to the provision of comprehensive pharmaceutical care for hospital patients. At …

Purpose As the pharmacist's role expands, particularly in primary care practice settings,
there is an opportunity for expansion of pharmacy technician duties to aid in administrative …

Introduction: A process redesign, partnered pharmacist medication charting (PPMC), was
recently piloted in the emergency department (ED) of a tertiary hospital. The PPMC model …

Background The increasing adoption of hospital electronic prescribing and medication
administration (ePA) systems has driven a wealth of research around the impact on patient …

OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to compare errors in the emergency department
(ED) with pharmacists present (PPs) for resuscitations and traumas vs with pharmacists …

Objective: Pharmacists' impact on individual patient care is difficult to measure especially the
contribution made by clinical pharmacy ward visits. This study set out to determine what …

Background Successful implementation of clinical pharmacy services is associated with
improvement of appropriateness of prescribing. Both high clinical significance of pharmacist …

The purpose of this paper is to summarize the need for an emergency pharmacist (EPh)
program, discuss the evidence showing that an EPh program is effective, and provide …

ABSTRACT The Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee guidelines call for a
detailed medication history to be taken at the first point of admission to an Emergency …

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