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[Hospital Pharmacy Departments on the internet. An unfinished business?]
A Sanz Arrufat1, M Clemente Andújar, J Martínez Tormo
1Servicio de Farmacia, Complejo Hospitalario y Universitario de Albacete, Albacete. antoniosanz4@hotmail.com
Objective:
To establish the percentage of Pharmacy Departments with a web site on the Net, and to analyze whether their contents are focused on the development of pharmaceutical care activities for outpatients.
Methods:
Cross-sectional study based on multiple Internet searches using the Copernic version 6.0 software, as well as on directories listing hospital- and pharmacy department-owned web sites.
Results:
Amongst 452 hospitals with 100 or more beds, 198 (43.8%) hospital web pages and 52 (11.52%) pharmacy department web sites were found. The contents of pharmacy department sites were usually deficient, and only rarely was interaction with outpatients envisaged.
Conclusion:
The presence of pharmacy departments on the Internet is scarce. Telepharmacy or pharmaceutical care for outpatients using novel information technologies remains underdeveloped by Spanish pharmacy departments.
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