title: [The role of pharmacist on coordinating CAPD operation].
abstract: Tokai University Hachioji Hospital has built a distribution system which intended to minimize a drug inventory at the hospital, and to reduce the number of drugs when the patient is discharged or when the patient is an outpatient to take-out the drugs in order to facilitate smooth CAPD operation. As a result, the number of take-out drugs for discharged patients or outpatients has been reduced within two days. In addition to that, it has been considered to minimize both the strain to the patient who has to take drugs back to home as well as a level of the drug inventory. The cost of peritoneal dialysate inventory amount corresponds to the amount of one patient's 3-day inventory. Therefore, the amount of money can be suppressed to the minimum. Since the distribution system has not caused any major troubles, we basically assumed the system operation to be successful. Although CAPD operation is performed by clinical nurses in most of the cases, we believe that CAPD operation can be smoothly performed by participation of pharmacist. Further more, it is possible to contribute toward a health cost reduction, and the like.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Pharmacy, Tokai University Hachioji Hospital.
authors.forename: Hidemasa
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Koitabashi
authors.forename: Shinji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Soeda
authors.forename: Masayuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Watanabe
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D019058:Community Networks / Q000191:economics / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics; D017048:Health Care Costs; D007445:Inventories, Hospital / Q000191:economics; D010351:Patient Discharge; D010531:Peritoneal Dialysis, Continuous Ambulatory / Q000191:economics; D010595:Pharmacists