Objective To investigate the current status of management and operation in the public hospital pharmacies, and to provide the evidence and suggestions for improving the performance of the public hospital pharmacies. Method According to the principles and methods of business diagnosis, we designed the questionnaire to investigate the ideas of management and operation among 306 managers and pharmacists working in 74 public hospital pharmacies. We used percentage and proportion for statistical description. Result (1) Over 70% participants understood the strategic positioning, brand and development of hospital pharmacy. They had very b senses of innovation and risk awareness, and the comprehensive understanding to the risk and competitive factors. (2) Over 60% considered that the public pharmacies lacked in the awareness of the market competition and crisis, clear management plans as well as the active adaptation to market changes. They were also short of professional dedication and innovation capacity. (3) 52% thought that there was promising future of the public hospital pharmacies. Conclusion The public hospital pharmacies urgently needs the improvement and innovation of the management idea and models.
The pharmacy management of medical institutions is the basic condition for the pharmacy management of medical alliances. There are many common factors in the pharmacy management of each medical institution, and these common factors are the basic conditions for the pharmacy management of medical alliances. The pharmacy management of a medical alliance is composed of both shared aspects and aspects that meet the individual needs of different medical institutions. There are many problems in the primary medical institutions of the medical alliances, such as obsolete concepts of pharmacy management and weak pharmaceutical service capabilities. Pharmaceutical information collection is an important part in the pharmacy management of medical institutions, which can connect all aspects and better reflect the advantages of the special organization of the medical alliances. This paper explores pharmacy management in medical consortia for the specific organisational form of medical alliances, examines the basic situation of pharmacy management in different medical institutions in medical consortia, analyzes the basic conditions and basic characteristics of pharmacy management in medical consortia, so as to find a breakthrough in pharmacy management in medical consortia.
Objective
To investigate drug usage and costs of angina inpatients in Karamay Central Hospital in 2014 and to provide evidence and reference for evidence-based pharmacy study of single disease in circulation system.
Methods
The information of drug use and expenditure of angina inpatients were collected from the hospital information system (HIS). We analyzed the data including frequency, proportion and cumulative proportion by Excel 2007 software.
Results
We included 351 angina inpatients in Karamay Central Hospital in 2014 whose average age was 69.44±10.65 years old. Fifty-one kinds of drugs were used for angina therapy. The expenditure of drugs was 122.46 yuan per person. The symptomatic treatment drugs included 11 kinds of drugs. The top 3 usage drugs were isosorbide denigrates, aspirin, nitroglycerin. The secondary prevention medicines included 35 kinds of drugs, and were prescribed for 1 953 times; the anti-hypertensive drugs were most prescribed. The Chinese patent medicine were prescribed for 69 times. The compound Danshen dripping pill was the most prescribed drug. In total expenditure, the cost of clopidogrel, atorvastatin, irofiban ranked top three. Rivaroxaban, tirofiban, low molecular weight heparin were the top 3 drugs for per-time expenditure.
Conclusion
The top 3 used drugs are isosorbide denigrates, aspirin, nitroglycerin for angina inpatients in Karamay Central Hospital in 2014, while the top 3 total expenditure drugs are clopidogrel, atorvastatin and irofiban.
With the rapid development of pharmaceutical industry, cultivating interdisciplinary and integrated compound talents has become an urgent demand in this field. Based on the concept of interdisciplinary integration cultivation, this study systematically analyzes the current status and bottlenecks of pharmacy postgraduate education at home and abroad, highlighting deficiencies in curriculum design, practical training, supervisor collaboration and evaluation mechanisms. On this basis, a “four-dimensional integration” cultivation strategy is proposed, which includes reconstructing interdisciplinary curriculum modules, establishing diversified practical training platforms, building multidisciplinary supervisory teams, and reforming multidimensional evaluation systems, aiming to explore the practical pathways for cultivating compound talents that align with industrial needs. Furthermore, the study reviews the challenges and strategies associated with the interdisciplinary integration model for postgraduate pharmaceutical education, aiming to provide theoretical support and practical reference for promoting the reform of medicine education and cultivating high-quality compound talents for the innovative development of the pharmaceutical industry.
Clinical pharmacy practice guidelines have developed rapidly in recent years. They provide a series of recommendations for optimizing drug treatment management and improving pharmaceutical care appropriateness and are widely employed in clinical practice. Based on literature review and the experience of guideline development, this paper summarized the meaning, formulation methods, formulation status, and registration of clinical pharmacy practice guidelines, and provided suggestions for the development of guidelines.
ObjectiveTo investigate the reporting and methodological quality of systematic reviews/ meta-analyses conducted by hospital pharmacists in China, so as to improve the quality of systematic reviews/ meta-analyses in this field. MethodsThe literatures were retrieved from CNKI, WanFang Data, VIP, CBM, CMCI, PubMed, EMbase, The Cochrane Library from the establishment date to March 17th, 2016. According to the inclusive and exclusive criteria, authors independently screened and extracted the published information. Reporting and methodological quality of included reviews were evaluated by PRIMSA statements and AMSTAR checklists. Data analysis was conducted by using Excel 2013 software and SPSS 20.0 software. ResultsOne thousand and eighteen systematic reviews/ meta-analyses were included, including 871 Chinese literatures and 147 English literatures. The average score of PRIMSA was 18.41±2.84, and the average score of AMSTAR was 7.38±1.28. The main problems of PRIMSA were structured summary, objectives, protocol and registration, additional analyses and funding. The main problems of AMSTAR were priori design, status of publication and list of studies (included and excluded). Univariate analysis showed that some factors could improve the quality of methodology and reporting, including studies in English (P<0.000 1), published after checklists' (P<0.000 1), hospital in higher-level (P<0.000 1), illuminating the funding or interest conflict (P<0.000 1). Pearson analysis indicated that linear correlation were detected between PRISMA scores and AMSTAR scores (P<0.000 1), as well as citations and AMSTAR scores (P=0.045). ConclusionEvidenced-based pharmacy in hospital has developed rapidly, the quality of methodology and reporting have increaseed year by year, but further improvement should be considered in different aspects. The methods to evaluate the clinical application of these systematic reviews/ meta-analyses should be developed in the future.
Objective
To analyze outpatient pharmacy internal prescription dispensing errors list and raise suggestions on preventive measures, in order to provide better and safer medical service for patients.
Methods
We summarized and analyzed the prescription dispensing error types and causes based on 320 cases of internal prescription dispensing errors of the outpatient pharmacy in a hospital of the highest rank between January and June 2014. Then, we put forward suggestions on improvement measures. Six months after the implementation of these measures, we compared the error rate after dispensing between January and June 2014 with those between July and December 2014.
Results
Among all the 320 prescription dispensing errors, 120 (37.50%) were wrong medication amount, 101 (31.57%) were wrong drugs, 76 (23.75%) were wrong usage and dosage, 17 (5.31%) were wrong packaging specification, and 6 (1.87%) were wrong medication form. The dispensing error rate between July and December 2014 was reduced compared with the rate between January and June 2014. The error rate after dispensing declined from 0.01‰ to 0.006‰.
Conclusion
Encouraging drug dispensing personnel to issue internal dispensing error recording list for the staff who had errors in dispensing, promoting pharmacists’ professional quality, strengthening the management of outpatient pharmacy, reasonable storage of medicines, enhancing intervention of irrational prescriptions, improving the spatial layout of the pharmacy, and perfecting dispensing error management system, can in a large extent reduce medication errors.
Objective
To investigate drug usage and costs of pneumonia inpatients in Karamay Central Hospital in 2014 and to provide baseline for evidence-based pharmacy study of single disease in respiratory system.
Methods
The information of drug use and expenditure of pneumonia inpatients were collected from the hospital information system (HIS). We analyzed the data including frequency, proportion and cumulative proportion by Excel 2007 software.
Results
A total of 309 inpatients were included, among the 78.96% were more than 60 years old. Among the antibiotics single therapy, the frequency of cefoperazone and sulbactam was the highest. Among the antibiotics combination therapy, the frequency of β-lactam antibiotics was the highest.
Conclusion
Pneumonia inpatients in Karamay Central Hospital are mainly older patients. The β-lactam antibiotics is used most in clinical practice.
Objective To investigate the current situations of human resource management in the public hospital pharmacies, and to provide the evidence and suggestions for improving the performance of the public hospital pharmacies. Methods According to the principles and study methods of human resource management, we designed the questionnaire to investigate the human resource management among 307 managers and pharmacists working in 74 public hospital pharmacies. We used percentage and proportion for statistical description. Results 56% participants considered that the public pharmacists had professional qualities. Nearly 73% considered that there were good interpersonal relationship; 45% wanted to do present job. Nearly 75% thought that the mechanism of performance appraisal should be consummated. About 63% considered that the learning and training was not fitting and proper. 63%thought they could not develop their ability and talent. Conclusion The human resource management system in public pharmacies should be improved.
Objective To provide evidence for the definition, current development and prospect of Evidence-based pharmacy through systematically assessing the extant literatures. Methods We searched CBM, VIP, CNKI, PubMed, EMbase, and Google for supplement. We extracted definitions of evidence-based pharmacy, types of studies, published year, topics of studies, and the author information from the included studies. We compared the definitions on different domains, and assessed the current development of evidence-based pharmacy literature. Results a) The definition of evidence-based pharmacy: We found 4 definitions, and there were great differences among them on the people who practiced evidence-based pharmacy as well as the methods and areas of the practice. b) The evidence-based pharmacy literature: 12 English and 202 Chinese articles were included in the review. The number of Chinese evidence-based pharmacy articles was increasing annually, especially in recent 3 years; Most of their authors were from hospitals, especially from pharmacy department; Their study orientations mostly involved clinical pharmacy and hospital pharmacy; The topics mainly refered to the practice and development of clinical pharmacy, rational drug use, and development of hospital pharmacy. Conclusion a) There is yet no consensus on the definition of evidence-based pharmacy. b) Few researchers worldwide know or show interest in evidence-based pharmacy, while, so far, more and more researchers are getting to know evidence-based pharmacy in China. c) Further efforts should be made to develop the theoretical system of evidence-based pharmacy and the pattern of its practice.
