Investigation of establishing and implementing about clinical pharmacist system in 35 hospitals of South Sichuan

LUO Hong-li; XIAO Shun-lin; DONG Li-me

Abstract：Objective:To investigate the establishing and implementing of clinical pharmacist system in hospitals of South Sichuan.Methods: Questionnaire was used to investigate the establishing and implementing of clinical pharmacist system in 4 cities of South Sichuan information including emphasis on clinical pharmacy, general information of clinical pharmacists, job contents and assessment system, etc, and the results were statistically analyzed.Results: A total of 40 questionnaires were used and 35 questionnaires were recovered effectively with the effective rate of 87.50%. Results showed that the leaders failed to pay enough attentions to clinical pharmacy in Grade 2 hospitals. There were totally 93 clinical pharmacists in 35 hospitals. Most of them were younger than 40 years old, undergraduate and have junior and middle professional junior-middle title. About 26 pharmacists passed job training and 4 pharmacists passed teaching qualiifcations training. The pharmaceutical care projects mainly included ward rounds, consultation, case discussion, prescriptions audit and adverse drug reaction monitoring. The performance evaluation system wasn't perfect enough.Conclusion: The implementing of clinical pharmacist system in grade 2 hospitals of South Sichuan is not going well and needs to be further improved.