Aplicación de un programa de Acreditación en Servicios de Farmacia hospitalarios en Argentina

TRAVERSO DELORENZI, M L; SALAMANO DOMIZI, M C; PÉREZ SALERNO, B; BOTTA GALLETTO, C A; SOPRANZETTI CAMPETELLA, V; COLAUTTI GARCÍA, M

Farmacia Hospitalaria

ISSN: 1130-6343

Farmacia Hospitalaria (Farm Hosp) is the official publication of the Spanish Society of Hospital Pharmacists (SEFH), a professional and scientific organization that currently has about 4.351 members.

The Mission of Farm Hosp is to be the support for health professionals for expanding the influence of projects, publications, and training programs, and to promote the exchange of experiences.

Vision Farm Hosp is:
- to increase the state of knowledge about the hospital pharmacy and whose actions should increase the adequate and safe use of medicines and health products.
- to be an instrument of exchange and dissemination of scientific knowledge of pharmacy practice through the best use and safe medication and health outcomes.

It is a peer-reviewed double-blind scientific journal aimed at publishing in the broad field of Hospital Pharmacy advances in Pharmacy Services. This journal included the following topics: Drug evaluation. Quality of life. Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), and Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) in the use of drugs. Monitoring medication. Pharmaceutical compounding. Medication administration. Management of Pharmacy Services (logistics, quality control). Technologies and information systems in the process of using medication. Medical devices. Patient Education. Pharmacist´s role in the society and /or in the Health System in Spain, and other topics related to clinical, scientific, and institutional role of hospital pharmacists.

Farmacia Hospitalaria publishes bimonthly (6 issues yearly) originals, short originals, reviews, clinical cases, special articles, protocols, consensus documents, clinical guidelines, letters to the editor, editorials.

All the articles are published in Spanish and English language regardless of the language in which they are received.

Farmacia Hospitalaria is an Open Access journal, whose content is available free of charge to users or their institutions. Users are authorised to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to entire texts of the articles in this journal without prior permission from the editor or author, according to the BOAI definition of Open Access. The papers may be re-used under the terms of the Creative Commons 4.0 license. (CC BY-NC-ND). Such use shall be subject to authorisation from SEFH, the journal owner.

Farmacia Hospitalaria journal charges no fees for submission of papers or publication of articles.

Adherence to international ethics recommendations

Manuscripts must follow the most recent recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (available at http://www.icmje.org).

The articles published in Farmacia Hospitalaria are indexed in PubMed and other 17 date bases:
- Evaluation databases: MEDLINE, DOAJ, Scopus, Latindex y Scimago Journal and Country Rank (SJR). Índice H: 18, quartile 3 (Medicine, miscellaneous / Pharmacology)
- Bibliographic databases: CINHAL, EMBASE Excerpta Medica, Índice Bibliográfico Español en Ciencias de la Salud (IBECS), Índice Español de Ciencia Y Tecnología (ICyT), Índice Médico Español (IME), International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA).
- Journal collections: Dialnet, Medes, Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), REDIB, ScienceDirect, ClinicalKey.

Indexed in:

Medline, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Objetivo: Desarrollar un programa de Acreditación de Servicios de Farmacia hospitalarios que involucre diferentes alternativas de evaluación, para analizar la calidad de las prestaciones brindadas con la finalidad de promover su mejora continua. Método: Análisis de programas de acreditación ya implementados; diseño de un programa adecuado al desarrollo de los servicios en Argentina; aplicación y análisis de los resultados obtenidos. Resultados: El programa considera todas las actividades posibles de ser desarrolladas, mediante un proceso evaluativo que incluye el uso de un Cuestionario Guía, indicadores específicos con valores estándar asignados, inspección del servicio y documentación. Conclusión: El presente Programa es una propuesta para iniciar a los Servicios de Farmacia Hospitalaria en el proceso de acreditación. El propio programa debe ser corregido y optimizado en base a los resultados que se obtengan y a la evolución de las técnicas de evaluación que se proponen a nivel internacional.

Palabras clave:

Acreditación

Calidad

Mejora Continua

Servicios de Farmacia Hospitalaria

Indicadores de calidad

Objective: To develop an Accreditation Program for In-Hospital Pharmacy departments involving different assessment options in order to analyse the quality of services delivered and promote continued improvement. Method: Analysis of already-implemented accreditation programs; design of a program suited to the development of services in Argentina; implementation and analysis of results obtained. Results: The program considers all activities that may be developed by using an assessment process including the use of a Guiding Questionnaire, specific markers with assigned standard values, service inspection and documentation. Conclusion: The current program is a proposal to initiate In- Hospital Pharmacy Departments into the accreditation process. The program itself must be corrected and optimised on the basis of obtained results and the evolution of internationally suggested assessment techniques.

Keywords:

Accreditation

Quality

Continued improvement

In- Hospital Pharmacy Departments

Quality markers

Full text is only available in PDF

Tools

Indexed in:

Follow us:

Subscribe to our newsletter