[Clinical pharmacist in a multidisciplinary team in a paediatric department].

Background: Clinical pharmacists have not been a part of multidisciplinary teams at Rikshospitalet, University Hospital, Norway, which is in contrast with common practice in other countries. We wanted to investigate how such specialists could contribute to quality assurance of drug treatment in a paediatric ward.

Material And Method: A clinical pharmacist reviewed medical charts from patients admitted to the paediatric ward at Rikshospitalet in the period 1.

[Pharmacy-managed drug supply may reduce drug expenditure in hospitals].

Background: In order to reduce the cost of drugs and the time nurses spend on them, a six-month collaboration project was carried out between the hospital pharmacy and a ward unit. The ward unit had a yearly drug expenditure of 5.9 million NOK.

[Pharmaceutical revision of hospital drug administration].

Background: Quality audits of the implementation of drug administration procedures are carried out in order to determine objectively to what extent implementation conforms to procedures.

Methods: Since September 1997, the pharmacy at Rikshospitalet University Hospital in Norway has performed quality audits of drug administration at the hospital, using interviews and surveys. Staff members in the audited unit and the auditing pharmacist agree on prospects for quality improvements and review possible action.