Departments and Centers
Department of Pharmacy
In the Pharmacy Department, a professor of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences is appointed as Director. In addition, 4 other faculty members work in the Pharmacy Department. The Pharmacy Department is staffed with 61 pharmacists and 8 office workers. An additional pharmacist belongs to the Clinical Studies Support Center. The Pharmacy Department performs dispensations, preparations, and TPN/Anticancer IV mixtures, and provides drug information services in a centralized operation. Moreover, in the wards pharmaceutical care is provided to inpatients with the cooperation of other medical staff. Clinical pharmacists are also actively involved in team medicine by participating in the Infection Control Team (ICT) Committee, Nutritional Support Team (NST) Committee, Bedsore Committee, and Palliative Care (PC) Committee. A pharmacist was assigned to the Surgery Division in April 2007, and the management of narcotics, psychotropic agents, and poisons commenced. The Pharmacy Department conducts clinical training of pharmacy and medical students of Fukuoka University and started a paid pharmacist residency system for graduates in April 2006.
Services of Pharmacy Department
| Items / Year | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of non-parenteral prescriptions for inpatients | 183,074 | 170,840 | 174,548 | 167,867 |
| Number of non-parenteral prescriptions for outpatients | 16,189 | 14,572 | 15,850 | 16,987 |
| Number of prescriptions dispensed by out-of-hospital pharmacies | 170,424 | 153,520 | 163,455 | 164,047 |
| Number of parenteral prescriptions for inpatients | 186,229 | 181,563 | 178,775 | 179,645 |
| Number of parenteral prescriptions of injections for outpatients | 36,357 | 35,227 | 36,819 | 37,033 |
| Number of anti-cancer preparations dispensed for inpatient chemotherapy | 6,047 | 6,186 | 6,049 | 6,022 |
| Preparations dispensed for outpatient chemotherapy | 7,890 | 8,804 | 10,702 | 12,539 |
| Number of TPN mixtures prepared | 2,342 | 2,108 | 1,526 | 1,379 |
| Number of pharmaceutical consultations for inpatients | 36,738 | 36,488 | 37,978 | 36,577 |
| Number of drug information instructions given at discharge | 4,150 | 7,283 | 8,896 | 9,357 |
| Number of additional drug information collaborations at the time of discharge | 0 | 1,127 | 2,417 | |
| Number of drug comprehensive evaluation adjustment additions | 2 | 155 | 320 | |
| Number of pre-avoid reports | 12 | 77 | 386 | 431 |
| Number of side effects reported | 66 | 86 | 65 | 79 |