Management Challenges in Large Rural Hospital Pharmacy Departments

1999 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 202-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry W Jestrimski
Keyword(s):  
Hospital Pharmacy ◽  
Rural Hospital

scholarly journals Rationality verses irrationality in fixed dose combinations: at a tertiary teaching hospital of rural Chhattisgarh, India

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 1114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Tabish ◽  
Tanveer A. Khan ◽  
Chandel N. B. ◽  
Rao Anand ◽  
Mishra Chandresh
Keyword(s):  
Hospital Pharmacy ◽  
Essential Medicine ◽  
Rural Hospital ◽  
Fixed Dose ◽  
Hospital Formulary ◽  
Rational Drug ◽  
Tertiary Teaching ◽  
Outpatient Departments ◽  
Tertiary Teaching Hospital ◽  
The Right

Background: Rational drug prescribing can be defined as appropriate drugs prescribed in the right dose, at correct time intervals and for a sufficient duration. Irrational drug use is a common problem in many countries of the world.Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted, total 300 patients attending various outpatient departments of tertiary health care rural hospital in Rajnandgaon district were interviewed and their prescriptions were analysed.Results: Total 350 drugs were prescribed 60 (17.14%) were prescribed by generic name and the rest 290 (82.86%) were prescribed by brand name. Only 18 (5.14%) drugs were not prescribed from hospital formulary. 264 (75.43%) drugs were dispensed from hospital pharmacy. On the basis of rationality score 53% prescriptions were rational, 30% semi rational and 17% irrational.Conclusions: In a rural hospital, where hospital formulary is based on WHO Essential medicine list, hundred percent utilization of hospital pharmacy service doctors and patients would ensure rational prescribing benefits of the patients coming from rural and uneducated background.

Comparative prevalence of prescription errors in randomly collected samples from hospital pharmacy and community pharmacy, Punjab, Pakistan

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 350-353
Author(s):  
Sabeeha Kausar ◽  
Muhammad Imran
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Community Pharmacy ◽  
Hospital Pharmacy ◽  
Dosage Form ◽  
Physician Education ◽  
Prescribing Errors ◽  
Prescribing Practices ◽  
Prescription Errors ◽  
Dosing Frequency ◽  
N 93

Objective: This study was conducted to analyze and evaluate the prevalence of prescription errors, to optimize the medication effectiveness and patient safety and to encourage the rational prescribing practices. Method: sample of 250 prescriptions was randomly collected from outdoor hospital pharmacy (n=157) and from community pharmacy (n=93) and analyzed manually to estimate the prevalence of prescription errors. Results: Results calculated by using SPPS Version 23 and MS Excel 2013 are as follow; 41.4% prescription collected from outdoor hospital pharmacy presented significant prescribing errors while 54.7% in sample collected from community pharmacy. The prescriptions were segregated and errors were estimated using following parameters; dose, dosage form, dosing frequency, drug-drug interactions, spelling, and duplication of generic, therapy duration and unnecessary drugs. Conclusion: The prevalence of prescribing errors in sample of community pharmacy was 12.37% greater than found in prescriptions of hospital pharmacy. The prevalence of prescription errors can be reduced by physician education, using automated prescribing systems and immediate review of prescription by pharmacist before dispensing of prescription items to patients.

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