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Farmacia Hospitalaria : Organo Oficial... 2023
Topics: Humans; Pharmacy; Pharmaceutical Services; Pharmacies
PubMed: 36801093
DOI: 10.1016/j.farma.2023.01.005 -
The Annals of Pharmacotherapy Oct 2017Despite the wishful thinking of those who have long prophesied an imminent surge in demand for clinical pharmacists, the tipping point for healthy supply-demand balance...
Despite the wishful thinking of those who have long prophesied an imminent surge in demand for clinical pharmacists, the tipping point for healthy supply-demand balance in pharmacy has almost certainly been surpassed. Imprudent overbuilding of pharmacy programs has combined with trends toward increasing automation and consolidation in pharmacy practice to create an existential threat in pharmacy education. Surviving the looming industry shakeout will require schools and colleges of pharmacy to do what our colleagues in practice and the private sector have always done: compete.
Topics: Ambulatory Care; Community Pharmacy Services; Education, Pharmacy; Humans; Pharmacies; Pharmacists; Pharmacy; United States
PubMed: 28608718
DOI: 10.1177/1060028017715477 -
JAMA Apr 2024
Topics: Humans; Pharmaceutical Services; Drug Compounding; Nostrums; United States; Pharmacy; Pharmacies; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century
PubMed: 38546599
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2023.18270 -
International Journal of Pharmaceutical... 2022
Topics: Pharmaceutical Services; Pharmacies; Pharmacy; Prescriptions
PubMed: 35820130
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International Journal of Health Care... Aug 2018Pharmacy services start right from prescribing medicines and continue as the medication's effect is monitored. Hospital and community pharmacy staff promote rational... (Review)
Review
PURPOSE
Pharmacy services start right from prescribing medicines and continue as the medication's effect is monitored. Hospital and community pharmacy staff promote rational prescribing and medicine use. Consequentially, pharmacy is a complex and busy field. Often there are peak workload hours when patients must wait, which is associated with patient dissatisfaction that may negatively affect patient experience and the organisation's reputation. The purpose of this paper is to enlist techniques, methods and technological advancements that have been successfully employed to reduce patient waiting time.
DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH
A database search was conducted in 2017 to locate articles addressing methods and technologies that reduce pharmacy waiting time. The literature revealed various techniques and technologies like queuing theory, tele-pharmacy, evidence-based pharmacy design, automated pharmacy systems (robotics), system modelling and simulation and the Six Sigma method for identifying potential problems associated with increased wait time.
FINDINGS
The authors conclude that various techniques and methods, including automated queuing technology, tele-pharmacy, automated pharmacy devices/machines for quick and accurate filling and dispensing, computer simulation modelling, evidence-based pharmacy infrastructure for smooth workflow and Six Sigma can maintain customer satisfaction, reduce waiting time, attract new customers, decrease workload and improve the organisation's reputation.
PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
The authors conclude that various techniques and methods, including automated queuing technology, tele-pharmacy, automated pharmacy devices/machines for quick and accurate filling and dispensing, computer simulation modelling, evidence-based pharmacy infrastructure for smooth workflow and Six Sigma methodology can maintain customer satisfaction, reduce waiting time, attract new customers, decrease workload and improve the organisation's reputation.
ORIGINALITY/VALUE
The authors carried out a literature search and identified the techniques that have been successfully implemented to reduce pharmacy patient waiting time and methods that can identify potential process behind medication dispensation delays.
Topics: Databases, Factual; Efficiency, Organizational; Health Services Accessibility; Humans; Pharmacies; Total Quality Management; Waiting Lists
PubMed: 30354876
DOI: 10.1108/IJHCQA-08-2017-0144 -
Frontiers in Public Health 2022
Topics: Delivery of Health Care; Pharmaceutical Services; Pharmacies; Pharmacy; Policy
PubMed: 35619821
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.901847 -
British Dental Journal Aug 2020
Topics: Pharmacies; Pharmacists; Pharmacy; Trust
PubMed: 32811913
DOI: 10.1038/s41415-020-2010-z -
Research in Social & Administrative... Apr 2024
Topics: Humans; Pharmacy; Pharmaceutical Services; Pharmacies
PubMed: 38242764
DOI: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2024.01.007 -
International Journal of Pharmaceutical... 2024The great majority of sterile products commercially available as well as prepared in compounding pharmacies are sterilized by sterile filtration during aseptic...
The great majority of sterile products commercially available as well as prepared in compounding pharmacies are sterilized by sterile filtration during aseptic processing. This brief and basic review will highlight the nature, action, and use of sterilizing filters. Special emphasis is given to how filters are validated in producing a sterile filtrate while being compatible with the filtered solution, as well as how filters are integrity tested during aseptic processing.
Topics: Filtration; Sterilization; Pharmacies
PubMed: 38604149
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The Senior Care Pharmacist May 2022
Topics: Pharmaceutical Services; Pharmacies; Pharmacy
PubMed: 35450558
DOI: 10.4140/TCP.n.2022.169