Current status, challenges and the way forward for clinical pharmacy service in Ethiopian public hospitals

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Bilal, Arebu Issa ^a   Tilahun, Zelalem ^a   Gebretekle, Gebremedhin Beedemariam ^a   Ayalneh, Belete ^a   Hailemeskel, Bisrat ^b   Engidawork, Ephrem ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical pharmacists; Clinical pharmacy service; Ethiopia; Graduates; Job satisfaction; Public hospitals

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CHILD; CLINICAL PHARMACY; CURRICULUM; ETHIOPIA; HEAD; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNAL MEDICINE; JOB SATISFACTION; PEDIATRIC WARD; PHARMACIST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL PHARMACY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICATION ERROR; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; PATIENT CARE; PERSONNEL TURNOVER; PHARMACISTS; PHARMACOLOGY, CLINICAL; PHARMACY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85019929241     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-017-2305-1     Document Type: Article

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