著者
今井 俊吾 山田 武宏 西村 あや子 沖 洋充 熊井 正貴 宮本 剛典 笠師 久美子 井関 健
出版者
Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
雑誌
医薬品情報学 (ISSN:13451464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.16, no.4, pp.169-178, 2015 (Released:2015-03-10)
参考文献数
13

Objective: To attain optimal blood concentration rapidly, it is needed to perform initial dose setting appropriately when vancomycin (VCM) used.  In order to design initial dose settings of VCM more currently, we compared the predictive performance of two types of VCM therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) analysis software retrospectively.Method: We utilized two TDM analysis software, SHIONOGI-VCM-TDM ver.2009 (VCM-TDM) and “Vancomycin MEEK TDM analysis software Ver. 2.0” (MEEK), based on patient’s background. 112 patients who received VCM and performed TDM were analyzed during the period from October 2011 through September 2012 and compared the actual trough level with the predictive trough level.  The predictive performance was evaluated by calculating ME (mean prediction error), MAE (mean absolute prediction error), and RMSE (root mean squared error).  Age, gender, and a renal function were evaluated as patient’s background.Results: VCM-TDM gave good predictive performance for patients overall.  When classified patient’s background complexly (sex, age, and renal function), as for male patients, VCM-TDM showed good predictive performance except for the group over 65 years old and CCr over 85 mL/min.  For female patients, the difference of predictive performance was not accepted by all groups.Conclusion: These results suggest, for male patients, we should use VCM-TDM for initial dose settings except for the group over 65 years old and over CCr 85 mL/min.  For the other patients, we consider that both of software can be used.  These new findings seem to contribute to proper dosage settings of VCM.
著者
冨田 猛 野崎 晃 宇田 篤史 山本 和宏 西岡 達也 久米 学 槇本 博雄 矢野 育子 平井 みどり
出版者
Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
雑誌
医薬品情報学 (ISSN:13451464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.19, no.1, pp.1-7, 2017-05-31 (Released:2017-06-16)
参考文献数
10

Objective: When responding to questions regarding drug-drug interaction by the medical staff of our hospital, pharmacists previously collected information using some drug databases from Japan and the United States.  The aim of this study was to construct a search system for interaction information using drug databases from both Japan and the United States for streamlining questions and answers regarding drug-drug interaction.Methods: Using the drug databases from Japan and the United States, we collected information on the interaction pertaining to drugs prescribed at Kobe University Hospital.  This information was further assessed for consistency.  Furthermore, we constructed an original search system for interaction information for streamlining questions and answers regarding drug-drug interaction.Results: The difference between information obtained from the databases from Japan and the United States was apparent.  Thus, we concluded that it was necessary to obtain interaction information via a database search that included information from both the countries.  Therefore, our original interaction search system was reconstructed with interaction information collected using databases from both the countries.  We compared the response to questions regarding the previous and present methods using our original search system for interaction information; the time required to obtain the responses was 5.89 and 3.09 min, respectively, and it took lesser time for providing responses than the previous method.Conclusion: We evaluated the usefulness of the original search system for interaction information.  We found that the original system provides a more rapid response to questions compared with the previous method.  We are considering a further upgrade and update for the original system by adding information on drugs not prescribed by our hospital.
著者
面谷 幸子 石坂 敏彦 井上 美樹 安井 友佳子 長井 克仁 初田 泰敏 向井 淳治 名徳 倫明
出版者
Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
雑誌
医薬品情報学 (ISSN:13451464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.20, no.1, pp.12-19, 2018 (Released:2018-06-16)
参考文献数
11

Objective: In conjunction with the introduction of medical fees for pharmaceutical practices in hospital wards, the pharmacy department at Sakai City Medical Center has solely managed PREAVOID and reported the results to the Japan Society of Hospital Pharmacists (JSHP) since 2012.  We investigated the pharmacological management being performed by pharmacists and what knowledge is necessary for the super-aged society according to our PREAVOID reports.Methods: We totaled and analyzed the PREAVOID preventive reports (pattern 2) that were reported to JSHP from April 2014 to March 2016.Results: Elderly people had the highest number of PREAVOID reports (p<0.001).  “Transcription error and incorrect prescription” was the most common cause, followed by “special condition (impaired renal function, etc.)” and “overdose.”  Regarding the elderly generation, the number of reports in the 2-year period was the highest for “special condition” (173 cases, 5.30% ?? ), which was 3.69-times the number for adults (p<0.001).  These results demonstrate that involvement of pharmacists is indispensable for pharmacotherapeutics in generations with greatly differing drug metabolic functions.Conclusion: This survey revealed that adverse effects were caused by inadequate medication.  As “pharmaceutical management” was involved in most reports, these results indicate that it is important to manage pharmaceuticals in hospital wards.  It is possible to improve pharmacological knowledge by sharing and utilizing the analysis results of these PREAVOID reports in order to appropriately medicate elderly patients.  According to this study, pharmacists play a crucial role in medication of the elderly.
著者
Hyerim Park Akiko Miki Hiroki Satoh Yasufumi Sawada
出版者
Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
雑誌
Iyakuhin Johogaku (ISSN:13451464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.19, no.3, pp.133-141, 2017-11-30 (Released:2017-12-27)
参考文献数
19

Objective: An aging population results in an increased number of people in need of long-term care. Despite the role of care staff in supporting sufficient medication use, and medication risk management being important in long-term care, attitudes and concerns regarding medication assistance among nursing home staff are unclear. The study aimed to survey fee-based elderly nursing homes staff attitudes and concerns about supporting medication use and drug information.Methods: The questionnaire was designed to survey the attitudes, concerns, and knowledge of the support of residents' medication use by fee-based elderly nursing homes staff. In August 2012, the questionnaire was distributed to 360 staff in 12 fee-based elderly nursing homes in Japan.Results: A total of 201 responses (from 44 nursing staff and 157 care workers) were used in the analysis; 59.1% of nursing staff and 87.9% of care workers were anxious about the lack of basic medication knowledge, and 15.9% of nursing staff and 76.4% of care workers felt anxious that they could not answer residents' questions about medication. Regarding the frequency of behaviors for obtaining drug information, few staff usually ask physicians (17.2%) or pharmacists (24.0%) for information.Conclusion: Many fee-based elderly nursing homes staff were concerned about supporting medication use without knowledge of the medications that elderly residents are taking in fee-based elderly nursing homes. The findings suggest that fee-based elderly nursing homes staff wanted to obtain basic drug information to support safe medication use. It is important to relieve their concerns by providing basic education programs and strengthening collaboration with other health professionals to improve the quality of care involving medication.
著者
Yoshihiro Noguchi Ikuto Sugita Yuta Hayashi Aki Yoshida Anri Ueno Manami Ohtubo Hayato Katsuno Hiroki Esaki Kousuke Saito Tomoya Tachi Hitomi Teramachi
出版者
Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
雑誌
Iyakuhin Johogaku (ISSN:13451464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.19, no.3, pp.127-132, 2017 (Released:2017-12-27)
参考文献数
18

Objective: Gastrointestinal tract injury associated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) remains a clinically significant problem.  Therefore, evaluate using the signal detection that is also used clinically and report attention concerning the assessment of known adverse drug events.Methods: In this study, we analyzed data on the serious adverse event gastrointestinal tract injury collected from 2004 to 2013 using Japanese Adverse Drug Event Report (JADER).  The indicated drugs were classified into 12 NSAIDs based on COX selectivity.Results: In the usual analysis, several COX-1 selective NSAIDs were detected, but the signals of aspirin and the COX-2-selective NSAIDs etodolac and meloxicam associated with gastrointestinal tract injury were detected using ad hoc analysis.Conclusion: Since the signal value is calculated from the data obtained from the spontaneous reporting system, it is influenced by the clinical use situation at the time of investigation.  Therefore, the signal value decreases if the risk, for which a countermeasure has been established, is high.  This result does not indicate that COX-1 selective NSAIDs are pharmacologically less risk of gastrointestinal tract injury than COX-2 selective NSAIDs.  There is a need to focus risk on emphasis on NSAIDs signal detected by ad hoc analysis.
著者
齋藤 百枝美 村上 勲 厚味 厳一 土屋 雅勇 夏苅 英昭
出版者
Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
雑誌
医薬品情報学 (ISSN:13451464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.16, no.1, pp.1-9, 2014-05-30 (Released:2014-06-09)
参考文献数
6
被引用文献数
2

Objective: In this study, we evaluated to examine the short-term educational effects for drug abuse prevention, including lectures and students’ awareness of drug abuse.Method: A questionnaire consisting of eleven items and SD method-based image survey were conducted three times, prior to and following the lectures and after the summer vacation for first-year students of the Department of Pharmacy.Results: The numbers of responses to the questionnaire surveys conducted prior to and following the summer vacation were 323 (response rate: 95.8%) and 332 (response rate: 97.9%), respectively.  When asked: “Do you think that people should be allowed to use cannabis (illegal herbal drugs) as long as they do not cause any trouble to others”, 2.8 (3.4) and 6.9 (6.6)% of students answered “Yes” after the lectures prior to the summer vacation and following it, respectively; there were both increased.  Following the summer vacation, 28.6% of students answered “Yes” to the question: “Have you ever seen or heard of people using cannabis or illegal herbal drugs ?”  A total of 2.1% of students had been “solicited to use cannabis or illegal herbal drugs”, and all of them stated that it would be “easy to obtain illegal herbal drugs”.  As the reason for drug abuse by young people, 140 students (42.2%) cited “curiosity”, and 81.6%, or 271 students, stated that they would “refuse” to use any illegal drugs even if they were asked to do so.  The results of the SD method-based image survey suggested significant changes in students’ awareness of drug abuse during the summer vacation; they had the image of little risk on drug abuse prevention following the vacation.Conclusion: The effects of learning were not maintained in some first-year students because they faced a variety of temptations during the short summer vacation and their normative consciousness and images of drug abuse easily changed.  Therefore, it is necessary to provide lectures for new students to help them acquire accurate knowledge of drug abuse, enhance their normative consciousness, and increase their self-awareness as health care professionals, develop curriculums on a continuing basis, and deploy specialists so that students with psychological problems as identified by the survey, including stress, escapism, mental weakness, and anxiety, can consult them.
著者
村上 雅裕 三浦 友里 桂木 聡子 大野 雅子 天野 学 森山 雅弘
出版者
Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
雑誌
医薬品情報学 (ISSN:13451464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.17, no.3, pp.140-144, 2015 (Released:2015-12-18)
参考文献数
5

Objective: For pharmacists to select a suitable auxiliary device for eye drop administration for patients who have difficulty in applying eye drops, the pharmacists need to know the characteristics and level of difficulty of using each device.Methods: Thus, we compared the characteristics of New Rakuraku Tengan, Rakuraku Tengan III, and an eye-drop self-help device and also conducted a survey involving 40 healthy volunteers on each device’s accessibility and suitability for people with motor disabilities.Results: New Rakuraku Tengan received the highest score for “usage was able to easily understand” (70.0% of the respondents answered positively) and “suitability for poor-sighted people” (65.0%).  Rakuraku Tengan III received the highest score for the “effectiveness of photos and illustrations in the manual” (77.5%), but was evaluated to be difficult to use.  The eye-drop self-help device received the highest score for “suitability for people with difficulty raising their shoulders and arms” (75.0%).Results: Thus, we observed the need for pharmacists to have thorough knowledge of the products in order to recommend suitable auxiliary devices for eye drop administration for each patient.
著者
阿部 真也 松本 忍 小林 彦登 斎藤 太寿 宮下 博幸 高野 照子 堺 直子 柴田 壮一 厚田 幸一郎
出版者
Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
雑誌
医薬品情報学 (ISSN:13451464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.14, no.2, pp.75-81, 2012 (Released:2012-09-04)
参考文献数
10
被引用文献数
2

Objective: In the intensive care unit (ICU), drugs are administered in sequence as the conditions of the patient change rapidly, and there are often cases where many injections are administered simultaneously.  For this reason, it is important to quickly select the appropriate administration route.  In this study, we prepared a quick reference table for incompatibilities of frequently used and highly important injections in the ICU (referred to as the “quick reference table”) that will enable selection of the appropriate administration route, and we investigated the status of use and usefulness of this quick reference table.Methods: The drugs included in the quick reference table were extracted from prescription records from May to October 2009, and these were finalized by discussions with the nurses in the ICU.  Three reference materials were used: Manual on the Supervision of Injection Preparation (3rd Edition), Data Search on Injection Incompatibilities 2009, and MICROMEDEX®.  The survey was conducted with all 12 nurses in the ICU after 4 months of distributing the quick reference table.Results: The quick reference table included 57 pharmaceutical items, and compatibility was classified into 10 categories.  The quick reference table was prepared as one A3 page for convenience.  The retrieval rate of the survey was 100%.  The average number of years of practical experience as a nurse was 12.2 years, and 11 out of 12 nurses used the quick reference table.  Of the 11 nurses who used the table, 6 answered that it was “very useful,” while 4 answered that it was “useful.”  All 11 nurses who used the quick reference table answered that they “consulted the pharmacists less frequently.”Conclusion: Satisfactory evaluations were obtained with regard to the details included in the quick reference table, and the table was estimated to be highly useful and important even for ICU nurses with many years of experience.  Furthermore, it was suggested that the quick reference table was also useful in reducing the workloads of the pharmacists.
著者
波多江 崇 田中 智啓 猪野 彩 田内 義彦 竹下 治範 辰見 明俊 濵口 常男
出版者
Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
雑誌
医薬品情報学 (ISSN:13451464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.18, no.4, pp.289-294, 2017-02-28 (Released:2017-03-17)
参考文献数
24

Objective: We conducted a meta-analysis on the suppressive effect of resistant maltodextrin on post-prandial blood glucose elevation, which is approved in Japan as food for specified health use, and the following is allowed to be indicated on the label “it is suitable for consumption by those who are concerned about their post-prandial blood glucose levels because the absorption of sugars is abated by the action of dietary fiber (resistant maltodextrin).”Method: Our literature search covered Ichushi-Web (Japan Medical Abstracts Society), Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic (J-stage), Google Scholar, and PubMed databases and extracted English and Japanese publications on randomized, double-blind, controlled studies comparing resistant maltodextrin and a control in Japanese subjects for the reduction of areas under the blood glucose response curves at 30, 60, and 120 min after eating as an efficacy index.Result: Among these publications, four articles with a Jadad score (an assessment of the quality of randomized controlled studies) of ≥ 3 were included in the meta-analysis.  Significant inhibitory effects were confirmed from areas under the blood glucose response curves at 30, 60, and 120 min after eating in the meta-analysis that was performed to evaluate the effects of resistant maltodextrin on post-prandial blood glucose elevation in Japanese individuals.Conclusion: However, we were not able to test for publication bias because the number of extracted publications was small, and thus, additional research and case studies are warranted.
著者
山本 緑 石井 祐次
出版者
Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
雑誌
医薬品情報学 (ISSN:13451464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.20, no.1, pp.41-46, 2018 (Released:2018-06-16)
参考文献数
21

Objective: Smart drugs are widely used for nonmedical reasons in Western countries.  Given that smart drugs are often used for years, long-term effectiveness and safety are essential, but particularly difficult and costly to determine.  The use of smart drugs seems to be common among individuals in cognitively demanding environments, such as schools and universities, although the actual consumption of smart drugs has not been elucidated in Japan.  To monitor the prevalence of smart drugs among undergraduates, we conducted an awareness survey in Kyushu University and Healthcare Management College.Results: We found that 98% of students had never used smart drugs.  When asked “Would you like to use smart drugs ?” 55% of the students answered “No,” 10% answered “Yes,” and 33% answered “I couldn’t say.”  No associations were observed between these answers and sex, drinking, smoking, and pressure on academic performance.  It is suggested that users of soft enhancers, such as caffeine-containing products for cognitive enhancement, are more likely to use smart drugs.  We found that half of the students had used energy drinks for neuroenhancement prior to an exam.Conclusion: The present study indicated a low prevalence of smart drug use compared with that in other countries, whereas the use of caffeine-containing products for cognitive enhancement appeared to be similar to Western usage.  Furthermore, approximately 30% of the students agreed with the use and effectiveness of smart drugs.  Further studies of smart drugs among students should be conducted to prevent the abuse.
著者
Akiko Tanifuji Akira Nozaki Hiroo Makimoto Takeshi Hirano Midori Hirai
出版者
Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
雑誌
Iyakuhin Johogaku (ISSN:13451464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.19, no.2, pp.82-90, 2017 (Released:2017-09-07)
参考文献数
24

Objective: We aimed to integrate drug information (DI) documents universally necessary in most hospitals in Japan and share the DI documents nationwide.  For this purpose, we planned to collect details (e.g., types of document, contents, sources of information used for preparing documents) regarding the DI documents prepared by the DI service section of each hospital.Methods: (1) Preliminary research: We searched Ichushi-Web (from January 1977 to December 2015) for cases in which DI documents were prepared by the DI service section of each hospital.  (2) Questionnaire survey: We conducted the survey in DI section of 300 hospitals in Japan that were selected randomly.  We asked the types of DI documents they have, sources of information used for preparing documents, and time needed for preparing documents.Results: (1) Forty titles, including those related to preoperative medication management, simple suspension methods of tablets, and list of dosing with renal impairment, were found.  (2) In total, 148 hospitals (49.3%) responded to the survey.  The main contents were as follows: preoperative medication management (130), the influence of a tube and a filter give to stability of injection medicine (67), list of high-risk medicines (54), suspension or porphyrization information on tablets (37), and others.  The source of information used for preparing these documents was common in several hospitals.Conclusion: It was confirmed that similar DI documents are prepared by several DI sections of hospitals and some sources of drug information are common.
著者
谷藤 亜希子 田中 健太 平野 剛 岡村 昇 平井 みどり
出版者
Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
雑誌
医薬品情報学 (ISSN:13451464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.13, no.3, pp.95-102, 2011 (Released:2012-02-09)
参考文献数
12
被引用文献数
1

Objective: Drug information literacy is necessary for pharmacists.  This study investigated the effect of practical training on the drug information literacy of pharmacy students.Methods: We conducted practical training in the drug information room of hospital pharmacy.  Then we asked the students two questions before and after the training.  We scored the drug information responses of students using four-point rating scales based on objective criteria.  We compared the scores obtained before and after training.  In addition, we researched the realization of several secondary and tertiary sources using a visual analog scale (VAS).  We then compared VAS findings before and after the training.Results: The score for drug information responses was significantly improved.  For sources other than MEDLINE (Pub Med), the VAS score also improved.  The students were aware of the information on package inserts before training.  There was significant improvement in awareness of books about pregnancy and lactation (e.g. Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation) after training.  However, there were significant individual differences in awareness of MEDLINE, Up To Date, and the Cochrane Library.Conclusion: This practical training experience improved the drug information literacy of pharmacy students.  Before training, there were significant deficiencies in the process of literature search.  Therefore, this training was effective for advancement in drug information literacy of pharmacy students.
著者
Sakae Fukushima Toru Imai Taku Fujieda Dai Tsurusaki Shinji Hidaka Norikazu Kikuchi
出版者
Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
雑誌
医薬品情報学 (ISSN:13451464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.23, no.3, pp.129-134, 2021-11-30 (Released:2021-12-14)
参考文献数
22

Objective: Risk factors for hypermagnesemia due to magnesium oxide (MgO) include advanced age, decreased renal function, and long-term administration; however, no study has evaluated patients that present all of these factors. This study was aimed to evaluate the safety of long-term MgO administration in elderly patients with impaired renal function.Methods: We investigated changes in serum Mg in patients aged 65 years or older, who had been taking oral MgO and presenting a glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) <60 mL/min/1.73 m2 for 6 months or longer.Results: Thirty patients were surveyed. Their median age was 81 years (range, 68-92). No significant change in patient background was observed before and after initiating MgO administration, with no change in serum Mg detected. Furthermore, the oral dose of MgO was divided into groups taking <1,000 mg and ≥ 1,000 mg; no change in serum Mg was observed in either group. Based on renal function, the analysis was divided into a mildly decreased group (60> eGFR ≥ 45) and a moderately to severely decreased group (45> eGFR ≥ 15), and no change in serum Mg was observed in either group.Conclusions: We targeted elderly patients with renal dysfunction who were taking long-term MgO, a known risk factor for hypermagnesemia, indicating that MgO can be safely continued.
著者
櫻井 秀彦 恩田 光子 中川 明子 藤本 佳乃子 奥田 勅子 岡山 浩之 荒川 行生 早瀬 幸俊
出版者
Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
雑誌
医薬品情報学 (ISSN:13451464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.15, no.3, pp.118-123, 2013 (Released:2013-12-27)
参考文献数
15

Objective: This study quantitatively analyzes the factors causing dispensing errors in community pharmacies and explores the characteristics of these factors and their order of importance.Design and Methods: We collected data records on the contents and causes of dispensing errors as reported between April and July 2009 by a total of 320 pharmacists at 56 stores of two pharmacy chains (15 stores in Hokkaido and 41 stores in the Kansai area).  We focused on the following three types of dispensing error: 1) “measurement error”, 2) “wrong drug dispensing error” and 3) “wrong dosage form specification error”.  We conducted multiple regression analyses and discriminant analyses with occurrence frequency of each type of error as dependent variables and count frequency of each causal factor as independent variables.Results: The result of the multiple regression analyses indicated that the primary causes of the three types of errors in order of strength of the regression coefficients were as follows.  For “measurement error”: 1) pharmacist’s wrong assumption and 2) calculation error; for “wrong dosage form specification error”: 1) insufficient confirmation of prescription and 2) pharmacist’s wrong assumption; for “wrong drug dispensing error”: 1) pharmacist’s wrong assumption and 2) insufficient confirmation of prescription.  The results of the discriminant analysis indicated that only for the discriminant coefficient between “wrong dosage form specification error” and “wrong drug dispensing error” no significant difference in the mean was found (p=0.539).Conclusions: Results show that partly different factors cause “measurement error” as compared with the two other types of dispensing errors.  In addition, while basically the same factors were found to cause “wrong drug dispensing error” and “wrong dosage form specification error,” there was a difference in the order of importance of these factors.  This study uncovered differences in terms of causal factors affecting each dispensing error type.
著者
藤枝 正輝 野中 琢哉 林 愛子 長谷川 佳孝 月岡 良太 森澤 あずさ 大石 美也 佐藤 宏樹 澤田 康文
出版者
Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
雑誌
医薬品情報学 (ISSN:13451464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.18, no.3, pp.192-200, 2016 (Released:2017-02-14)
参考文献数
12
被引用文献数
5

Objective: Prescription check and inquiry is one of the most important operations of pharmacists to provide optimal drug therapy to the patient.  Although a number of studies related to inquiries of prescriptions have already been reported, there is little report about requests for doctor and hospital based on the examples.  Therefore, this study aimed to clarify the current problems revealed by inquiries about prescriptions by not only analyzing these inquiries but also investigating requests for doctors and hospitals.Methods: We investigated 6,255 inquiries about prescriptions and requests for doctors and hospitals at 584 insurance pharmacies from August 4 to 10, 2014.  Then, the inquiries about prescriptions and requests for doctors and hospitals were categorized.Results: The most frequent category of inquiries about prescriptions was “Questions about administration and dosage” (21.5%).  On the contrary, the most frequent request for doctors was “Efficiency in gathering information from and providing information to a patient” (2,067 cases).Conclusions: The present study clarified current problems revealed by inquiries about prescriptions by investigating requests for doctors and hospitals that were based on examples.  Furthermore, the problems were classified into ten categories, and these should be noted by doctors and hospitals at the time the prescription was issued.
著者
酒井 隆全 大津 史子 後藤 伸之
出版者
Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
雑誌
医薬品情報学 (ISSN:13451464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.13, no.4, pp.183-188, 2012 (Released:2012-03-15)
参考文献数
8

Objective: The purposes of this study were to verify the actual state and to identify the problems associated with research activities by pharmacists.Methods: The abstracts presented at the 42nd and the 37th Japan Pharmaceutical Association (JPA) Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science were investigated.  They were categorized into six research types: “Outcome research”; “Intervention research”; “Observational study”; “Status report”; “Case report”; and “Other”.  They were then ranked according to evidence level, with “Outcome research” ranked the highest.  In addition, “Outcome research”, “Intervention research” and “Observational studies” were checked for whether they had structured abstracts, and form scores were awarded.Results: We found that only 0.8% of abstracts were “Outcome research”.  but the level was higher at the 42nd Congress than the 37th (p=0.03).  Structured abstracts were also more common at the 42nd Congress than at the 37th (p<0.01).  However, the form scores were not significantly different between the 42nd and 37th Congresses.Conclusions: Our findings suggest that pharmacist research activities are improving, but that there is still room for further development.  The referee system and the guidelines for research design are useful methods to encourage more activity.  The target of this study was community pharmacy, and further studies are necessary for hospital pharmacy.
著者
赤沢 学 今井 志乃ぶ
出版者
Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
雑誌
医薬品情報学 (ISSN:13451464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.17, no.1, pp.N1-N4, 2015-05-30 (Released:2015-06-28)
参考文献数
2
著者
柴田 壮一 伊藤 千裕 小室 治孝 増渕 幸二 宮下 博幸 薄井 健介 貝沼 潤 厚田 幸一郎
出版者
Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
雑誌
医薬品情報学 (ISSN:13451464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.11, no.3, pp.173-179, 2010-02-28 (Released:2010-08-10)
参考文献数
7
被引用文献数
2

Objective: In the Drug Informatics in Department of Pharmacy, Kitasato Institute Hospital (hereinafter “the hospital”), we have had question-and-answer sessions regarding doping agents (banned drugs) among doctors and other workers and prepared an Anti-doping Quick Reference List (hereinafter “the list”), facing an urgent need to provide precise information quickly.Methods: The list consists of drugs adopted by the hospital and over-the-counter drugs according to package inserts, interview forms, and other sources of information.Results: In the list, hospital and over-the-counter drugs are classified into three categories in terms of a doping test: (1) “Non-banned” (drugs that can be used), (2) “Banned” (drugs that cannot be used), and (3) “Suspected” (unclear drugs) with their half lives for elimination as an indicator of the disappearance time from the body and divided by medicinal effect.  In addition, we indicated any drug for which the Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) application (hereinafter, TUE application) is required before use.Conclusion: The list prepared in this investigation offers many benefits, including precise and quickly available information on banned and non-banned drugs, ease in suggesting alternatives, and avoidance of failure in TUE application.
著者
後藤 伸之 山田 成樹 藤森 研司
出版者
Japanese Society of Drug Informatics
雑誌
医薬品情報学 (ISSN:13451464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.15, no.4, pp.165-168, 2014-02-28 (Released:2014-04-02)
参考文献数
5

Objective: The purpose of this study was to clarify the importance of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) at acute care hospitals using Diagnosis Procedure Combination (DPC) data.Methods: We used DPC data from about 3,500,000 inpatients at about 950 acute care hospitals.  The investigation period was from July 2010 to December 2010.  Patients were divided into 2 groups: TDM intervention (n=22,012); and non-TDM intervention (n=26,400).  We compared the clinical indicators (length of hospital stay, payment based on performance and drug costs) and use of antimicrobials.Results: TDM intervention was carried out in 45.5% patients for whom an anti-MRSA agent was prescribed.  The duration of anti-MRSA agent administration was significantly longer in the TDM intervention group than in the non-TDM intervention group.  The total daily cost of anti-MRSA agents was significantly lower in the TDM intervention group than in the non-TDM intervention group.Conclusion: Our results suggest that TDM intervention is often performed for seriously ill patients who require continuous treatment.  TDM intervention may prevent adverse reactions as a result of adjusting the dosage of the anti-MRSA agent.