{"title":"Le <i>JCPH</i> se joint au International Collaboration of Pharmacy Journal Editors (ICPJE), anciennement connu sous le nom de « Granada Group ».","authors":"Stephen Shalansky","doi":"10.4212/cjhp.3744","DOIUrl":"10.4212/cjhp.3744","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94225,"journal":{"name":"The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy","volume":"77 4","pages":"e3744"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11616616/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Voice of Healthcare-Systems Pharmacy Professionals.","authors":"Kathryn Katie Hollis","doi":"10.4212/cjhp.3752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4212/cjhp.3752","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94225,"journal":{"name":"The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy","volume":"77 4","pages":"e3752"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11616613/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wallis Rudnick, Joëlle Cayen, Jessica J Bartoszko, Jana Belanger, Chris Bessey, Siske Bos, John Conly, Ginette Dutrisac, Jenna Jenkins, Edith Lee, Darren Pasay, Linda Pelude, Alicia Rahier, Daniel J G Thirion
{"title":"Antimicrobial Use among Adult Inpatients in Northern Canada, 2019-2021.","authors":"Wallis Rudnick, Joëlle Cayen, Jessica J Bartoszko, Jana Belanger, Chris Bessey, Siske Bos, John Conly, Ginette Dutrisac, Jenna Jenkins, Edith Lee, Darren Pasay, Linda Pelude, Alicia Rahier, Daniel J G Thirion","doi":"10.4212/cjhp.3595","DOIUrl":"10.4212/cjhp.3595","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Antimicrobial use data from inpatients in northern Canada suitable to inform stewardship programs are limited.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>As a special project of the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, to describe antimicrobial use for inpatients in northern Canadian acute care hospitals.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participating acute care hospitals serving adult or mixed adult and pediatric populations in northern Canada submitted annual data on the use of all systemic antimicrobials from 2019 to 2021. Patient-day denominators were also submitted. Northern Canada was defined as the territories and Statistics Canada's provincial north. Data were analyzed in terms of defined daily doses per 1000 patient days (DDD/1000pd), as per the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical classification system. Antimicrobials were categorized using the World Health Organization's AWaRe (Access/ Watch/Reserve) classification system.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Each year, 42-47 hospitals participated. More than 90% of participating hospitals were in Alberta or British Columbia. There was large variation in overall antimicrobial use between hospitals (e.g., interquartile range 429 to 779 DDD/1000pd in 2021). From 2019 to 2021, there was a 49% relative increase in antimicrobial use, from 401 to 596 DDD/1000pd (<i>p</i> = 0.11). Over the same period, the use of third- and first-generation cephalosporins increased by 80% and 64%, respectively; antimicrobials in the \"Reserve\" category increased from 0.4% to 2% of overall use.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study represents the largest collection of antimicrobial use data for inpatients in northern Canada to date. From 2019 to 2021, there was an increase in antimicrobial use of 195 DDD/1000pd, largely driven by increases in the use of third- and first-generation cephalosporins. The findings should be interpreted with caution, as results may not be generalizable to all northern hospitals.</p>","PeriodicalId":94225,"journal":{"name":"The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy","volume":"77 4","pages":"e3595"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11616615/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>CJHP</i> Joins the International Collaboration of Pharmacy Journal Editors (ICPJE), Formerly Known as the \"Granada Group\".","authors":"Stephen Shalansky","doi":"10.4212/cjhp.3731","DOIUrl":"10.4212/cjhp.3731","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94225,"journal":{"name":"The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy","volume":"77 4","pages":"e3731"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11616612/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La voix des professionnels de pharmacie dans les réseaux de la santé.","authors":"Kathryn Katie Hollis","doi":"10.4212/cjhp.3755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4212/cjhp.3755","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94225,"journal":{"name":"The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy","volume":"77 4","pages":"e3755"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11616614/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ashley Hermanus, Kirsten Tangedal, William Semchuk, Kari Rustad
{"title":"Putting the Heart into Pharmacy: Creation and Implementation of a PharmD Cardiology Rotation in Tertiary Care.","authors":"Ashley Hermanus, Kirsten Tangedal, William Semchuk, Kari Rustad","doi":"10.4212/cjhp.3541","DOIUrl":"10.4212/cjhp.3541","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94225,"journal":{"name":"The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy","volume":"77 4","pages":"e3541"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11507558/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142635390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
France Boucher, Sylvie Schryve, André Bonnici, Carl Desparois, François Paradis, Julie Racicot, Diem Vo, Benoît Lemire, Linda Vaillant
{"title":"Piloting a Hospital Pharmacy Performance Model in the Face of Province-Wide Implementation of Activity-Based Funding in Quebec Health Care Centres.","authors":"France Boucher, Sylvie Schryve, André Bonnici, Carl Desparois, François Paradis, Julie Racicot, Diem Vo, Benoît Lemire, Linda Vaillant","doi":"10.4212/cjhp.3590","DOIUrl":"10.4212/cjhp.3590","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In the face of province-wide implementation of activity-based hospital funding in Quebec, a need arose to effectively measure pharmacists' contributions along the patient care trajectory and to enable pharmacy benchmarking using valid performance indicators.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>A 3-phase project was initiated to measure the performance and impact of pharmacists and pharmacy departments. Phases 2 and 3, described here, focused on gradually implementing, in various health care centres, the priority indicators selected in phase 1.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The project involved multiple committees overseeing the implementation, data collection, analysis, and documentation of 18 performance indicators. Specific tools were developed to facilitate data collection and encourage pharmacists' participation. A feedback survey was used to document pharmacists' experiences.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Substantial data were gathered over 3 years (2017 to 2020), involving 358 pharmacists from 6 health care centres. The overall contribution rate to the daily data collection from front-line pharmacists was 55%. The feedback survey revealed that, of the various communication tools used to promote the project, in-person events were better perceived by the front-line pharmacists than online tools. Of the 183 respondents to the survey, most (94%, <i>n</i> = 172) believed it was important to collect data to document pharmacists' activities, and 82% (<i>n</i> = 150) saw the project as relevant to the upcoming activity-based funding system.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Despite challenges, progress was made in defining relevant indicators, adjusting the list generated during phase 1, and reaching a consensus on 16 indicators. Stakeholders expressed interest, emphasizing the importance of documenting pharmacists' activities. The project has laid the foundation for demonstrating the value of pharmacists along the patient care trajectory and measuring pharmacy departments' performance. However, more integrated technological solutions are needed for province-wide implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":94225,"journal":{"name":"The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy","volume":"77 4","pages":"e3590"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11507507/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142635381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to \"Discharge Opioid Prescription and Consumption Following Surgery: The POPCORN Observational Study\".","authors":"","doi":"10.4212/cjhp.3725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4212/cjhp.3725","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article DOI: 10.4212/cjhp.3574.].</p>","PeriodicalId":94225,"journal":{"name":"The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy","volume":"77 4","pages":"e3725"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11507502/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142635307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Les traitements traditionnels et les compléments alimentaires chez le patient atteint de cancer: État des lieux en Tunisie.","authors":"Nawres Makhlouf, Imen Ben Jedidia, Marwa Bel Haj Ali, Mariem Chedly, Amani Cherif","doi":"10.4212/cjhp.3586","DOIUrl":"10.4212/cjhp.3586","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Context: </strong>Alternative and complementary medicines are currently experiencing a real boom worldwide, especially among cancer patients who are looking to improve their physical and mental well-being.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To provide an overview of the use of traditional treatments and dietary supplements by cancer patients and to assess the impact of these approaches on cancer care.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This prospective cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted at the oncology day hospital of a Tunisian medical centre. Data were collected from February 1 to March 30, 2022.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the study population, the prevalence of complementary medicine use was 71%; users were predominantly female, and average age was 54 years. Herbal medicine was most commonly used (69.7%); animal-derived products, diet, massage therapy, and dietary supplements were also common, with percentages ranging between 20% and 40%. Cupping therapy (12.4%) and mind-body therapies (such as rokia charia and physical activity; 10%) were noted to a lesser extent. Of the plants identified, the most frequently consumed was <i>Nigella sativa</i> L. (44.9%), followed by <i>Ephedra foeminea</i> Forssk. (42.7%) and <i>Curcuma longa</i> L. (32.6%). Among the identified herb-drug interactions, 33.4% were classified as contraindicated, while 56.7% were classified as beneficial.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The survey revealed a significant prevalence of alternative medicine use, which requires careful attention and further research.</p>","PeriodicalId":94225,"journal":{"name":"The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy","volume":"77 4","pages":"e3586"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11507552/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142635330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rocky Lam, Jacqueline Myers, Carolyn Gray, Alexander Wong
{"title":"Overcoming Challenges during Breastfeeding to Prevent Perinatal HIV Transmission in Canada: A Case Series.","authors":"Rocky Lam, Jacqueline Myers, Carolyn Gray, Alexander Wong","doi":"10.4212/cjhp.3572","DOIUrl":"10.4212/cjhp.3572","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94225,"journal":{"name":"The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy","volume":"77 4","pages":"e3572"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11507508/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142635375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}