We used the Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB) database, a computerized pharmacy records system that records prescription drugs dispensed to Ontario residents aged over 65.
Improved and simplified pharmacy records systems are needed in district hospitals to note drug transfers to other ART facilities more accurately and to ensure quality pharmacy data.
Daily hand searching of ED charts, pharmacy record queries and electronic medication dispensing system queries are used depending on site opinion of the most reliable method at their institution.
Some facilitating factors like electronic patient record system, relevant training and supervision on pharmacies are necessary if pharmacists are to be involved in patient self-management (Table 4).
Data for this study were obtained from the VHA electronic medical record system that includes administrative, clinical, laboratory, and pharmacy data.
The electronic medical record system also tracks medication profiles and refills at most pharmacies within the province of Alberta.
Launched in January 2000, Health Facts® is an electronic medical record system that stores time-stamped patient records, including sociodemographic, geographical, clinical, laboratory, pharmacy, and billing data for clients.
All primary care practices and pharmacies in Almere are organized in one central health organization and share the same electronic medical record system saved in one central database.
Using HVMA's electronic medical record system, we captured patient-level data from 1992 2001 from all ambulatory and inpatient encounters, including pharmacy encounters and laboratory test results, diagnoses, procedures, and therapies.
The aim of this project is to examine the concordance between asthma medication pharmacy data culled from Medicaid claims data ("Medicaid pharmacy data") and patient pharmacy record data obtained from individual pharmacies ("pharmacy record data").
