[Present Status and Problems of Management and Guidance for Visiting Pharmacy Service to In-home Patients by Hospital Pharmacists].

We conducted a survey of the background of 41 patients who received management and guidance from an in-home visiting pharmacy service and of the contents of support by the pharmacist, using patients' medical records from May 2016 to March 2017. Support comprised delivery of medicine to alleviate a burden to caregiver, suggesting medication, adjusting remaining medicines, and providing support during hospitalization. Out of 285 visits, there were 32 visits for which a medical fee could not be claimed.

[Fall risk assessment and knee extensor muscle activity in elderly people].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze relationships between the history of falls, tripping, sway, and knee extensor muscle strengths as a tool for fall risk assessment in elderly people. We examined effective fall prevention measures.

Methods: We investigated 102 elderly volunteers in the community.

[Survey on patients' satisfaction with opioid rescue guidance by pharmacists].

To examine the influence of drug therapy guidance by pharmacists on the use of a rescue dose (RD) for opioid analgesics (opioids) and pain as well as drug therapy guidance in cancer pain treatment, we conducted a patient satisfaction survey. The subjects were 56 cancer patients undergoing opioid therapy in hospitals belonging to the Symptom Control Research Group (SCORE-G). The survey period was 2 months (from November 1 until December 31, 2006).

[Contribution of hospital pharmacists for home parenteral nutrition--the case we were concerned with pharmaceutical management and support in mixing of injections].

Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) is a useful measure when cancer patients are hoping to have a transition from the hospital to a home medical care arrangement. A contribution of pharmacist performing HPN to a patient is to manage pharmaceuticals so that an appropriate medicine is used for not only the prescription design of the infusion solution but also to give a relaxation care. Based on the patient information record gathered by a home-visit nursing care program, we tried to study what pharmacists could do to help the patient after he was discharged.

[A contribution of the hospital pharmacy for home parenteral nutrition--utilization of a HPN report form].

Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) is a useful measure when terminal cancer patients are hoping to have a transition from the hospital to a home medical care arrangement. Our department has been supporting their family by mixing injections at our clean room. We created a HPN report form to check for an incompatibility of injections, and to prepare an infusion set by our department.

Factors associated with improvement of fasting plasma glucose level by mealtime dosing of a rapid-acting insulin analog in type 2 diabetes.

This study investigated whether strict control of plasma glucose levels with mealtime dosing of a rapid-acting insulin analog improves early morning fasting plasma glucose (FPG) levels in patients with type 2 diabetes. A rapid-acting insulin analog was administered at each mealtime to 40 Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes whose existing antidiabetic medication was discontinued. Approximately one-half (52.