Justification for Hospital-Based Nuclear Pharmacy Services

1989 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 152-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Laven ◽  
William R. Martin

Diversification is the greatest survival strategy available to hospital pharmacy today. Nuclear pharmacy is a growing field within institutional pharmacy practice and can help ensure the profession's participation in new technologies and clinical support roles. Nuclear pharmacy practice parallels hospital pharmacy practice in many areas including procurement, compounding, dispensing, quality assessment, and drug use review. Particularly important to the practice of pharmacy are the clinical contributions by nuclear pharmacists in areas such as product selection, drug interactions and interferences, and assisting the physician in the interpretation of nuclear medicine imaging data. Hospital-based nuclear pharmacy services are closely allied with nuclear medicine and radiology, which have felt the effects of changing trends in third party reimbursement. It has been shown repeatedly that nuclear pharmacists can make an impact on the quality of nuclear medicine services, while improving the cost effectiveness of these services. For the past several years, only a few hospital pharmacies have made attempts to provide services to nuclear medicine or radiology departments. Pharmacy has a professional responsibility and obligation to become involved with the use of legend drugs routinely used (or soon to be introduced) within these departments. Nuclear pharmacy is an area in the hospital where pharmacy can make a solid financial impact and broaden its scope of recognition and value.

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Newman ◽  
Sammu Dhaliwall ◽  
Olena Polyakova ◽  
Kevin McDonald

Background: The Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists’ Hospital Pharmacy in Canada Report presents data from pharmacy departments that service hospitals with at least 50 acute care beds. This report provides valuable data on pharmacy distribution, clinical, and management services in relation to hospital size, type, and geographic region. Pharmacy and hospital leadership use these extensive data in identifying baseline, benchmarking current, and planning enhanced pharmacy services. However, for most of Canada’s small hospitals, such data remain unknown, and leadership remains uninformed. Objective: To gather and analyze data about current pharmacy distribution, clinical, and management services in hospitals with fewer than 50 acute care beds receiving third-party remote pharmacy (telepharmacy) services. Methods: In April 2019, pharmacy administrators of hospitals in Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan that had fewer than 50 acute care beds and were using third-party telepharmacy services were invited to complete a comprehensive survey addressing concepts similar to those in the Hospital Pharmacy in Canada Survey. The following data on clinical pharmacy practice were collected: models of care, assignments to patient care programs, pharmacists’ activities, performance indicators, and professional evaluation. The description of pharmacy distribution services comprised type of system, technology, location, hours of operation, method of medication order entry and verification, and medication administration records. Details on facilities’ parenteral admixture infrastructure, policy for and provision of sterile compounding, and pharmacy department human resources, including composition and staffing ratios, were also collected. Results: Of the 27 hospitals in Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan that were invited to participate, 24 (89%) completed the survey. The median facility size was 19 acute care beds. Conclusions: Previously unavailable in Canada, these quantitative data from small hospitals supported by telepharmacy services provide facts about pharmacy distribution, clinical, and management services to inform hospital and pharmacy leaders. Creation of a survey unique to small hospitals, whether or not they use telepharmacy services, could provide a valuable resource to assist in the benchmarking, planning, and enhancement of pharmacy services in remote and rural communities. RÉSUMÉ Contexte : Le Rapport sur les pharmacies hospitalières canadiennes de la Société canadienne des pharmaciens d’hôpitaux expose les données provenant des services de pharmacie qui appuient les hôpitaux comptant au moins 50 lits de soins aigus. Il offre de précieuses données sur les services de distribution des médicaments, les services cliniques et de gestion en relation avec la taille, le type et la région géographique des hôpitaux. Les équipes de direction des pharmacies et des hôpitaux utilisent ces données exhaustives pour déterminer une base de référence, évaluer les services de pharmacie actuels et planifier l’amélioration des services. Cependant, la plupart des petits hôpitaux du Canada ne disposent pas de ce type de données, et les équipes de direction n’en sont pas informées. Objectif : Réunir et analyser des données sur la distribution de médicaments, les services cliniques et la gestion des services pharmaceutiques actuels dans les hôpitaux comptant moins de 50 lits de soins aigus, qui reçoivent des services de pharmacie à distance (services de télépharmacie) fournis par des tiers. Méthode : En avril 2019, les administrateurs de pharmacie d’hôpitaux en Ontario, au Québec et en Saskatchewan remplissant ces critères ont été invités à répondre à une enquête exhaustive abordant des concepts similaires à ceux de Sondage sur les pharmacies hospitalières canadiennes. Les données suivantes sur la pratique de la pharmacie clinique ont été recueillies : modèles de soins, affectation des pharmaciens à des programmes particuliers de soins des patients, activités des pharmaciens, indicateurs de performance et évaluation professionnelle. La description des systèmes de distribution des médicaments par les pharmacies comprenait : le type de système, la technologie, le lieu, les heures de service, le mode de saisie et de vérification des ordonnances de médicaments ainsi que les dossiers d’administration. Les détails concernant l’infrastructure pour l’administration de solutions parentérales, la politique relative aux composés stériles et à leur distribution ainsi que les ressources humaines des services de pharmacie, y compris la composition et les ratios en personnel, ont également été recueillis. Résultats : Sur les 27 hôpitaux en Ontario, au Québec et en Saskatchewan invités à participer à l’enquête, 24 (89 %) y ont répondu. La taille moyenne des installations était de 19 lits de soins aigus. Conclusions : Autrefois indisponibles au Canada, ces données quantitatives provenant de petits hôpitaux soutenus par des services de télépharmacie livrent des faits concernant le système de distribution des médicaments au sein des pharmacies, les services cliniques et de gestion, qui permettent de guider les cadres des hôpitaux et de la pharmacie. La création d’une enquête unique destinée aux petits hôpitaux, utilisant ou non des services de télépharmacie, pourrait constituer une précieuse ressource pour aider à évaluer, à planifier et à améliorer les services pharmaceutiques dans les communautés rurales et éloignées.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1660-1668
Author(s):  
Lingmei Wu ◽  
Yan Wei ◽  
Qingyun Wang ◽  
Shuanmeng Ji

With the continuous development of information construction in the medical industry, a large amount of data related to bone metastasis of prostate cancer can be found in the medical database. It includes a large number of inspection indicators, medical images, and background information such as gender, age, height, weight, and previous medical history. The content is very rich and detailed. The nuclear medicine image processing technology and data mining technology are organically combined to study the feature extraction and loading method of nuclear medicine image data, and the classification method of medical image data, thereby assisting doctors in decision-making diagnosis process and improving accuracy. These have important theoretical significance and broad application prospects. Therefore, based on the nuclear medicine imaging data, this study utilized data mining technology to analyse the nuclear medical imaging data of prostate cancer bone metastasis, and finds and summarizes the imaging features and developmental rules of prostate cancer bone metastasis. So, a BP neural network diagnosis matrix for prostate cancer bone metastasis was constructed. This is valuable and meaningful for the diagnosis, treatment and even medical research of bone metastasis of prostate cancer.


Healthcare ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Aya Ahmed Abousheishaa ◽  
Ahmad Hatim Sulaiman ◽  
Hasniza Zaman Huri ◽  
Syahrir Zaini ◽  
Nurul Adha Othman ◽  
...  

The pharmacy profession has undergone tremendous changes over the past few decades. Pharmacists’ roles have expanded their boundaries to encompass more patient-centered services. However, the degree to which these roles are practised may vary. This scoping review is aimed at describing the extent and range of the professional pharmacy services offered in hospital pharmacies across different countries and the barriers underlying inappropriate or incomplete implementation of these services. Studies published in the English language between 2015 and 2019 were retrieved from the following databases: PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus, EBSCO Discovery Service, and Web of Science. A thematic analysis across the included studies produced two main themes. “Scope of practice” comprised three subthemes: pharmaceutical care practice, clinical pharmacy practice, and public health services and “Multiple levels of influence” comprised five subthemes: individual, interpersonal, institutional, community, and public policy-related factors. The hospital pharmacy services across countries ranged from traditional drug-centered pharmacy practice to a more progressive, clinically oriented practice. In some countries, there is an apparent inadequacy in the clinical pharmacy services provided compared to other clinical settings. Understanding the current pharmacy practice culture across different health care systems is an essential step towards improving the profession.


1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 826-828
Author(s):  
Raymond N. Dansereau ◽  
Richard J. Dansereau

OBJECTIVE: Nuclear pharmacy is practiced in every hospital with a nuclear medicine clinic. Pharmacists control this practice in fewer than four percent of these institutions. The authors wish to bring to the attention of hospital pharmacists an area of practice in which they can make a significant contribution to the state of pharmacy practice. METHOD: The current state of the physician practice of nuclear pharmacy is described and compared with the accepted standards of pharmacy practice. CONCLUSIONS: Hospital pharmacists can improve pharmaceutical care administered in nuclear medicine by their participation in nuclear pharmacy practice and by the application of hospital pharmacy practice standards. It is also suggested that nuclear pharmacy should be integrated into the pharmacy curriculum at schools of pharmacy.


Author(s):  
Rajashree Shettar ◽  
Vidya Niranjan ◽  
V. Uday Kumar Reddy

Invention of new computing techniques like cloud and grid computing has reduced the cost of computations by resource sharing. Yet, many applications have not moved completely into these new technologies mainly because of the unwillingness of the scientists to share the data over internet for security reasons. Applications such as Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) require high processing power to process and analyze genomic data of the order of petabytes. Cloud computing techniques to process this large datasets could be used which involves moving data to third party distributed system to reduce computing cost, but this might lead to security concerns. These issues are resolved by using a new distributed architecture for De novo assembly using volunteer computing paradigm. The cost of computation is reduced by around 90% by using volunteer computing and resource utilization is increased from 80% to 90%, it is secure as computation can be done locally within the organization and is scalable.


2001 ◽  
Vol 36 (12) ◽  
pp. 1245-1254
Author(s):  
M. R. Monk-Tutor ◽  
A. A. Webster ◽  
S. G. Denaburg ◽  
T. W. Woolley ◽  
K. W. Whelan ◽  
...  

The implementation of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), how employees use such leave, and its effect on pharmacy service provision were examined in a national survey of 494 hospital pharmacy directors (16.2% useable response rate). Although there is some discrepancy regarding how to calculate the 12 weeks of leave time, at least 18.7% of respondents were found to allow less time than allowed by law. In general, respondents indicated that men used FMLA benefits only about 20% less than women. About 20% of respondents indicated that they were unable to expand departmental services with current staffing levels due to the impact of the FMLA and another 50% reported that they were only able to continue usual pharmacy services by hiring additional staff or requesting that employees work overtime. Strategies that respondents used to deal with perceived problems caused by staff usage of FMLA benefits are presented. Employers appear to interpret and enforce the FMLA inconsistently. Pharmacists and pharmacy managers need to obtain a better understanding of their rights and responsibilities under this Act.


Author(s):  
Rajashree Shettar ◽  
Vidya Niranjan ◽  
V. Uday Kumar Reddy

Invention of new computing techniques like cloud and grid computing has reduced the cost of computations by resource sharing. Yet, many applications have not moved completely into these new technologies mainly because of the unwillingness of the scientists to share the data over internet for security reasons. Applications such as Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) require high processing power to process and analyze genomic data of the order of petabytes. Cloud computing techniques to process this large datasets could be used which involves moving data to third party distributed system to reduce computing cost, but this might lead to security concerns. These issues are resolved by using a new distributed architecture for De novo assembly using volunteer computing paradigm. The cost of computation is reduced by around 90% by using volunteer computing and resource utilization is increased from 80% to 90%, it is secure as computation can be done locally within the organization and is scalable.


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