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Analysis on Drug Identification Service and other Drug-related Queries in a Hospital Pharmacy  

Choi, Ji-Hong (Graduate School of Clinical Pharmacy, Yeungnam University)
Kim, Jung-Ae (College of Pharmacy, Yeungnam University)
Shanmugam, Srinivasan (College of Pharmacy, Yeungnam University)
Yong, Chul-Soon (College of Pharmacy, Yeungnam University)
Choi, Han-Gon (College of Pharmacy, Yeungnam University)
Yoo, Bong-Kyu (College of Pharmacy, Yeungnam University)
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YAKHAK HOEJI / v.52, no.4, 2008 , pp. 283-287 More about this Journal
Abstract
Drug identification service and other drug-related query service are becoming increasingly important in hospital pharmacy. The goal of this research was to investigate current situation of the service in hospital pharmacy, which recently implemented the services as part of provision of advanced hospital pharmacy service in order to assure national health improvement. We investigated the report performed from November 2006 through April 2007 in a university hospital located in Daegu, Korea. Number of drug identification service performed was 81 cases during the first three months period (period I), but it increased to 222 cases during the second three months period (period II), which suggested that the service was welcomed by medical staff in the hospital. Time to process each case was about 30 minutes in the period I while it was only 16 minutes in the period II. Proportion of the unidentifiable cases remained at about 25% during the entire period, which suggests that the system for the identification task appears to have some limitations such as unsatisfactory support from the Korea Pharmaceutical Association, laws, and regulations. A vast majority of drug-related queries were mostly from physicians (60.5%) followed by nurses and pharmacists. Time to process each drug-related query was 10.6 minutes in the period I while it was 6.9 minutes in the period II. Queries answered immediately were about 70% of all queries in the period I, but increased to about 85% in the period II.
Keywords
drug identification service; drug-related query; hospital pharmacy; physician; pharmacist;
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