Direction through accreditation--CCHA (Canadian Council on Hospital Accreditation) recommendations to Ontario hospital pharmacies.

A questionnaire was circulated in December 1986 to 157 Ontario hospital pharmacy directors that asked about the recent recommendations made by CCHA surveyors. Sixty-four directors responded and assigned their received recommendations to four categories of pharmacy service. Similar recommendations were tabulated by category of service and by number of hospital beds (less than 200 and greater than 200 beds). The results show that drug distribution was the most emphasized area of service cited for improvement. Frequent recommendations concerned patient medication profiles, night supply services, hospital formulary, Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee policy review, adverse drug reaction programs, quality assurance, and regular medication room checks. Responses indicated that 27 of the 62 eligible hospital pharmacies (44%) that received recommendations have acquired administrative support to implement changes, and 33 of 62 (53%) have had specific action as a result of an accreditation survey.