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Pharmacy Services

 
 

Staff and Services
The Department of Pharmacy at KHCC is staffed with specialized pharmacists and technicians. We offer the following services:

  1. In-patient Pharmacy
  2. Out-patient Pharmacy
  3. Chemotherapy Pharmacy
  4. IV Admixture Pharmacy
  5. Ambulatory Infusion Services
  6. Total Parenteral Nutrition
  7. Operating Room Pharmacy

Clinical Pharmacy Services

At KHCC, the role of the department of pharmacy has been extended to reach patients in hospital floors and clinics. Since 2005, clinical pharmacists started to rotate in the floors with the treating teams. Soon later, they became essential members of the team. Clinical pharmacists provide thorough evaluations of patient’s drug histories, drug-drug interaction and allergies. They are a primary source of scientifically valid information and advice regarding the safe, appropriate, and cost-effective use of medications.

 

Center for Drug Policy and Evaluation (CDPE)

The CDPE is assigned with providing drug information services, pharmacovigilance, and pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research. The Center prepares detailed evaluations about the safety, efficacy and cost-effectiveness of every medication that is added to the KHCC formulary. This process ensures that only the best medications are used at KHCC. In addition, the cost-effectiveness analysis and other pharmaco-ecnomic studies ensure that health insurance providers are getting the most for their money.


Investigational Drug Service

The Investigational Drug Service has been created to support KHCC researchers in obtaining investigational (research) medications to be used for patients who have failed standard therapies and have no other alternatives. The investigational drugs service works with the physicians, research office, and pharmaceutical companies to ensure the availability and accountability of such medications.

Why is our service unique?
The KHCC pharmacy services are unique in that they all center around providing patients with the safest and most effective medications.

  1. At KHCC parenteral medications are prepared in the pharmacy under strict sterile conditions. This practice (i) decreases infection rates resulting from extemporaneous IV preparation by nurses in open environments, (ii) improves medication safety by reviewing a medication’s order for appropriateness, (iii) allows nursing staff to focus more on the patient, and (iv) significantly decreases costs.
  2. Patients who receive total parenetral nutrition TPN are visited daily by pharmacists who asses their needs and responses to the various therapies. Up to 20 nutrients (aminoacids, fats, vitamins, minerals, etc) are carefully mixed in the pharmacy in one container to provide the necessary daily nutrition for patients with sensitive digestive tracts.
  3. We’ve designed our outpatient pharmacy to allow for space to educate patients about every medication that they receive in a private and confidential matter.
  4.  All medications dispensed are electronically entered in a patient’s record. Every patient carries a “card” with all prescriptions dispensed from the pharmacy so that the attending staff is well informed about what medications patients are receiving; this in turn, helps to decrease prescribing errors.
  5. A system of multiple checking is in place to confirm proper dispensing of medications. This ensures that the right patient is receiving the right drug in the right doses.
  6. Chemotherapy is strictly handled by specially trained pharmacy professional and nursing staff, to guarantee that these critical medications are prepared and administered in adherence with international standards.
  7. We do not make assumptions. We continuously contact ordering physicians to clarify orders.
  8. Children are only given medications after adjustments in body weight have been established. We do not accept orders with no weight and dose per weight. This prevents giving little children full adult doses.
  9. Online web based formulary allows all KHCC staff to instantly access cortically appraised information about any of the drugs. Using an online platform, instead of a printed formulary, allows us to constantly update the list of drugs we have. In addition, the online formulary displays warning messages that have been added to the drugs, thereby alerting the staff to any new safety or efficacy guidelines regarding the medications.

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