Hospital pharmacy practice in Saudi Arabia: Prescribing and transcribing in the Riyadh region

Abstract

Hospital pharmacists are increasingly using electronic technologies to improve prescribing and transcribing of medications in Saudi Arabia.

Impact of Clinical Pharmacist Consultation Visits at Ministry of Health Hospitals in Saudi Arabia: Clinical Pharmacy Services and Pharmacy Workforce

“…[11][12] The majority of clinical pharmacy project lower percentages than Alsutan and Alomi studies because of The majority of the projects newly established at the hospitals, which needs much effort of preparing a proposal, planning, training the staff. [6][7][8][9] Moreover, all the clinical pharmacy projects filled the requirements of the pharmacy residency program. [5] The author found the performance percentage of projects were not high because of non-availability of an expert clinical pharmacist at all three hospitals.…”

“…The type pharmacy consultations were drug utilization evaluation (42.1 %), drug information (77.8%), antibiotics (43.85%), anticoagulant (31.3%), nutrition support (16.7%), and therapeutic drug monitoring services (26-46%). [6][7] Recently in 2017, the clinical services measured by the author and his colleagues and they found some improvements with the clinical pharmacy services (13.73 %) of MOH hospitals including drug information services (55.56%), nutrition support (37.5%), drug utilization evaluation 51.67%. Also, the therapeutic drug monitoring services (48.28%), clinical research and publication (43.1%) of hospitals, and residency programs at MOH hospitals do not exceed (4 %) of hospitals.…”

National Survey of Hospital Medication Safety Practice during Mass Gathering (Hajj-2016) in Makkah, Saudi Arabia: Patient Information

“…The reason behind that is pharmacy services is tremendous improving every year as shown the pharmacy survey in 2012 done by the and new study by the first author and his team in 2016. [19,20] The results of ten key elements discussed in different six parts and the first part presented here as patient information. The overall score of patient information less or near that No.…”

The Value of Clinical Pharmacist Consultation Visits at Ministry of Health Hospitals in Saudi Arabia: Intravenous Admixture Services and Pharmacy Total Quality Management

“…[1] In 2012, Al sultan and his colleagues did a survey of pharmacy practice in twenty hospitals with the low percentage of MOH hospitals, he found in the IV admixture practice (23-46%), clinical pharmacy (34.4%), and electronic prescriptions (28%). [2][3] Another study done by the author of a national survey of total parenteral nutrition (TPN), he found twentyfour only of MOH hospitals had TPN services, shortages of TPN devices requirements, and TPN safety requirements not existed at more than 50% of hospitals. [4][5][6] In the recent of national pharmacy practice for sixty MOH hospitals should very low percentages of pharmacy services.…”