When should pharmacists visit their wards?
Détails
ID Serval
serval:BIB_3D6D1645AA84
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
When should pharmacists visit their wards?
Périodique
Health Care Management Science
ISSN
1386-9620
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
03/1999
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
2
Numéro
1
Pages
35-42
Langue
anglais
Résumé
This paper reports a pilot study of the use of simulation in planning hospital pharmacy services. The objectives were to create a simulation model of the hospital drug distribution system, to use the model to investigate a simple problem and to assess the potential for simulation to aid decision making in hospital pharmacy management. The problem chosen for investigation focused on the UK ward pharmacy system, where a pharmacist visits each ward daily to initiate the supply of newly prescribed non‐stock medication. A simulation model was used to investigate how changing the time of the ward pharmacist's visit could affect the mean time delay between the prescription of a non‐stock drug and the arrival of that drug on the ward. The simulation results suggest that the time of day at which pharmacists visit their wards can have a major impact on delay times, and that the relative benefit of different visit times is likely to vary between wards. Simulation was found to be a useful approach to investigating different service alternatives without the expense and disruption of assessing each in practice.
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