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The impact of a pharmacist-managed dosage form conversion service on ciprofloxacin usage at a major Canadian teaching hospital: a pre- and post-intervention study

BACKGROUND: Despite cost containment efforts, parenteral (IV) ciprofloxacin appears to be overutilized at Vancouver General Hospital. In November 2003, the Pharmacist-managed intravenous to oral (IV-PO) Dosage Form Conversion Service was implemented, enabling autonomous pharmacist-initiated dosage f...

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Autores principales: Ho, Bradley P, Lau, Tim TY, Balen, Robert M, Naumann, Terryn L, Jewesson, Peter J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1185535/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15987523
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-5-48