[Centralized preparation in the pharmacy of dilute solutions of ganciclovir: (Cymevan): work load change and economic potential].

The production of ganciclovir doses by a hospital pharmacy having the necessary facilities to reconstitute anticancer drugs would be of the utmost relevance regarding both protection of the nursing staff and therapeutic safety. As this activity is also economically worthwhile a large number of our colleagues would like to implement it. The aim of this work has was to take advantage of a 40 weeks production of ganciclovir dose by the pharmacy at Rangueil hospital in Toulouse so as to answer some of the questions raised by such a project.

A comparative study of adverse drug reactions reported through hospital and private medicine.

Adverse drug reactions spontaneously reported by physicians in the hospital and the private practice were compared. All reports were sent to a French Regional Pharmacovigilance Centre over the period of 1 year (1992). Hospital-based physicians reported more adverse reactions and more serious reactions than physicians in private medicine.

Antiarrhythmic drug-induced side effects: a prospective survey of 300 patients.

The purpose of this study was to define the characteristics and the frequency of antiarrhythmic drug-induced side effects. All patients referred for cardiological consultation and treated with antiarrhythmic drugs between April 1992 and October 1993 were prospectively investigated. 300 patients were included in the study: 41 (13.