Key performance indicators for hospital clinical pharmacy services: results of a global Delphi study

IntroductionThe contribution of clinical pharmacy services (CPS) to patient outcomes and system performance is still not consistently measured. Most key performance indicators (KPIs) have been suggested only by pharmacists, without formal piloting or validation, and without benchmarking reference values. KPIs are indicators used to quantify pharmacists' clinical activities and their association with improvements in patient safety, therapeutic outcomes, and healthcare costs. There is a need fo...

Exposure to potentially harmful excipients in neonates admitted to intensive care units using compounded medicines

Background Compounding allows the use of medicines in paediatric patients that are not always available in appropriate dosages. Some of the commonly used excipients have been associated with toxicity events in neonates.Objectives To evaluate the exposure to potentially harmful excipients (PHEs) in neonates using compounded medicines and admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of a university hospital in Portugal.Methods Observational study with neonates using the 10 most prescribe...

Translation, cultural adaptation, and validation of the Arabic version of the Medication Adherence Universal Questionnaire among Omani patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

This study aimed to translate, culturally adapt, and validate an Arabic version of the Medication Adherence Universal Questionnaire (MAUQ-ar-OM) for Omani adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and to assess its association with glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c). A cross-sectional psychometric validation was conducted at a tertiary-care hospital in Oman from October 2024 to January 2025, enrolling 300 participants. The MAUQ was translated and culturally adapted using forward-backward translat...

More than tools: "video lecture capture" as a step towards pedagogic differentiation