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Making difficult things easy: use of a relational data base for pharmacy management.
01 Jan 1988-Current concepts in hospital pharmacy management (Curr Concepts Hosp Pharm Manage)-Vol. 10, Iss: 2, pp 7-15
TL;DR: No one in the department was a proficient data base programmer, yet it was possible to learn Paradox in a very short time and apply it to many previously time consuming management problems.
Abstract: No one in the department was a proficient data base programmer. Yet we found that it was possible to learn Paradox in a very short time and apply it to many previously time consuming management problems. Some of the other applications we are working on are antimicrobial use data analysis, investigational drug use tracking, personnel records, publication indexing, drug information, clinical services tabulation, and work load statistics. Previously, we would not recommend the do-it-yourself approach when it was necessary to know a lot of technical details about programming. However, the ease and power of some of the new products leads us to change our minds. What was formerly a frustrating and boring aspect of management can be made into a creative challenge that can result in answers rather than in just more paper. Paradox is available from computer stores and it requires an IBM-compatible computer with at least 640K RAM. In addition, a 20+ megabyte hard disk is recommended.
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TL;DR: There is an urgent requirement to be able to describe the work and benefits, both in terms of patient care and cost effectiveness of clinical pharmacy services.
Abstract: New management arrangements which were initiated in National Health Service hospitals on April 1, 1990, required hospital pharmacists to draw up internal contracts for their services with clinical directorates/clinical speciality managers. There is an urgent requirement to be able to describe the work and benefits, both in terms of patient care and cost effectiveness of clinical pharmacy services.
This pilot study describes a system where clinical pharmacists' patient interventions were recorded, entered into a computer data base and analysed to show any quality of care and cost avoidance benefits.
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TL;DR: There is an urgent requirement to be able to describe the work and benefits, both in terms of patient care and cost effectiveness of clinical pharmacy services.
Abstract: New management arrangements which were initiated in National Health Service hospitals on April 1, 1990, required hospital pharmacists to draw up internal contracts for their services with clinical directorates/clinical speciality managers. There is an urgent requirement to be able to describe the work and benefits, both in terms of patient care and cost effectiveness of clinical pharmacy services.
This pilot study describes a system where clinical pharmacists' patient interventions were recorded, entered into a computer data base and analysed to show any quality of care and cost avoidance benefits.
19 citations