Worst-case scenario: With no redundancies or adequate after-hour pharmacy coverage, medication errors often arise.
36 Another factor that affected the study power was the requirement to randomise participants prior to their final screening visit in order to allow the pharmacy adequate time for dispensing at visit 2, following final determination of eligibility.
In some cases, the drugs were obtained from countries other than Canada that lacked adequate regulation of pharmacies.
Without gathering adequate information, a community pharmacy does not have the added value of a health care provider, but is little more than business entity akin to a supermarket or other retail outlets [ 36].
Eleven trials had clearly adequate allocation concealment, using pharmacy to prepare and administer solutions [ 20, 62], sequential identical containers [ 19, 65, 70], using both these methods [ 72], a web-based randomisation system [ 71, 73] or sealed, opaque envelopes [ 64, 66, 68].
While some of the regulations were tightened up, compounding pharmacies still lack adequate oversight, and the explosion of these pharmacies has left regulators playing catch-up.
Second, adequate staffing of ACCs with pharmacists and pharmacy technicians is identified as one the characteristics of high-performing ACCs (Rose et al. 2012).
Therefore, as long as adequate numbers of newly qualified pharmacists and pharmacy technicians enter the workforce to maintain the high proportion of the workforce in younger age groups, pharmacy should not be expected to become an ageing profession.
Studies examining the provision of other UK pharmacy services have found that adequate funding is important to the success of a service [ 2- 4].
> The preparation of the chemotherapeutic agents in the hospital pharmacy and their transport in adequate containers to the OR is scheduled according to the German recommendations.
