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F J Pang

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PubMed1981

Implementation of a modified decentralized drug distribution system with the use of master medication carts.

A decentralized drug distribution system with the use of master medication carts was implemented. This system was designed so that roving pharmacists could dispense new medication orders quickly and develop a more personal means of nurse-pharmacist interaction for the benefit of better patient care. The key to the system using roving pharmacists is a master medication cart, a pharmacy dispensing unit on wheels, which travels to each nursing unit. The pharmacy medication profiles are kept with the cart, and at each nursing unit patient medication profiles are reviewed, new drug orders are filled, missing medications and discrepancies are resolved, and nurse-pharmacist consultations can take place. There are two roving pharmacists who make simultaneous rounds of all nursing units in the hospital with two similarly stocked master medication carts from 9 A.M. to 9 P.M., seven days a week. All unit dose drawers are filled in the central pharmacy and are exchanged once daily at 2 A.M. by the night pharmacy technician. Each master medication cart carries about 300 different medications, which comprise nearly 95% of the drug needs of the 340 patients served by the two medication carts. The pharmacy department has added 1.4 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) registered pharmacists and eliminated 2.8 FTE pharmacy messengers in implementing the decentralized drug distribution system. Currently, three registered pharmacists per day are assigned to the inpatient unit dose drug distribution system (two roving pharmacists and one unit dose filling pharmacist). Our roving pharmacists play a vital role in improving patient care. The overwhelming support by the nursing and medical staff represents an attempt by the hospital to continue to provide an optimal health care delivery system.

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PubMed1979

Charging for hospital pharmaceutical services: combined product-service per diem fees.

The development of a per diem hospital pharmacy charge is reviewed after five years of use. The itemized pharmacy charges for every tenth patient (total of 250 patients) admitted to the hospital during a three-month period were studied to determine the average daily charges for drugs and pharmaceutical services. Six categories of rates were designated, based on the type of hospital service. A comparison of the actual charges and the projected per diem rate indicated that the per diem rate would produce the same revenue as the itemized charging method. A procedure for periodically monitoring the per diem rate was also established. The per diem pharmacy charges range from $3.50 (for patients admitted to the psychiatric service) to $12 (surgical patients). Intravenous solutions, i.v. admixtures, normal human serum albumin, drugs administered in the intensive care and cardiac care units, and drug with an acquistion cost of more than $10 are not included in the per diem charging system. The per diem system enabled the hospital to reduce administrative and accounting costs while continuing to provide quality pharmaceutical services.

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