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P V McCrory. 2003-09-27. Format problem.. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.4810543
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The duties of hospital pharmacists include drug dispensing, drug management, preparation of injections, drug information provision, in-hospital preparation, drug management guidance (centering on patient compliance instructions), tests and research, and education. The Department of Pharmacy conducts most of these activities, which are not noticed by other medical staff. As members of medical care teams, pharmacists must share information and perform their jobs from a pharmaceutical viewpoint in order to fulfill their duties as drug specialists, which include management of patient conditions, patient-oriented patient compliance instructions, risk management, management of dosages and administration methods for anticancer drugs during cancer chemotherapy, discovery of the initial symptoms of adverse drug reactions and prevention of adverse drug reactions to obtain the optimum effect, education on self-care after discharge from the hospital, and evaluation of drug economics for cancer chemotherapy. It is important that they acquire sophisticated expertise and stay in as close contact as possible with patients and their families.
The current standards for meeting drug information (DI) requirements in American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)-accredited pharmacy practice residency (PPR) programs and the impact of changes in ASHP standards for the DI requirements were studied. In September 2002 a nine-question survey was e-mailed to the directors of all ASHP-accredited PPR programs listed with an available e-mail address on ASHP's residency directory Web page as of August 2002. The program directors were asked to provide information on the demographics of their practice settings, the current methods of completing the DI requirements of their programs, whether the DI requirements had changed between the 2001-02 and 2002-03 residency years, and whether any changes in the DI requirements were anticipated. A total of 178 (49%) of 365 PPR programs responded. Of the respondents, 87% were located in a hospital setting, 33% were affiliated with a school of pharmacy, and 40% had a formal onsite DI center. Half of the respondents fulfilled DI requirements through a longitudinal rotation, 20% through a block rotation, and 27% through both. Eighty-two percent of the respondents were familiar with the revised ASHP DI requirements, and 26% had modified their DI requirements between the 2001-02 and 2002-03 residency years. Seventeen percent anticipated changing their DI requirements in the future. Influences for modifications to the programs' DI requirements were mainly ASHP revisions and feedback from preceptors and residents. A national survey suggested that DI requirements in PPR programs are primarily achieved through a longitudinal rotation design.