Title of article
Hospitals Pharmacy Quality Assurance System Assessment in Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Author/Authors
Dargahi, H Dept. of Health Care Management - Faculty of Allied Health Sciences - Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , Khosravi, SH Dept. of Health Care Management - Faculty of Allied Health Sciences - Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Pages
12
From page
102
To page
113
Abstract
Background: Health system pharmacies, like other health care professional, practice under a number of mandated standards.
Basic concepts of quality assurance (QA) standards should be applied to hospital pharmacy practice. The survey reported
here is to assess QA system implementation and its standard indicators observation in Tehran University of Medical
Sciences (TUMS) hospitals’ pharmacies in 2007 – 2008.
Methods: A cross – sectional, descriptive analytical survey was accomplished. First, a checklist within the framework of
QA standard indicators was made to assess TUMS hospitals pharmacies practice. Collected data was saved by Excel software
for recording and analyzed by SPSS version-15. Observation rate of QA standard indicators was classified by
inappropriate, relatively appropriate, and appropriate.
Results: Characteristics of TUMS hospitals pharmacists organizational structure, size, equipment, safety facility and drug
requirement were studied by QA standard indicators.
Conclusion: Many of QA standard indicators are observed and implemented in TUMS hospitals pharmacies, but several of
these standards are not observed too. It is appropriate that all TUMS hospitals pharmacies are required to advance the
profession, often with the same goal of increasing involvement in direct patient care.
Keywords
Hospital Pharmacy , Quality Assurance , Standard , Assessment , Iran
Journal title
Astroparticle Physics
Serial Year
2010
Record number
2440480
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