Biomedical subjects

P E Huntzinger

Publications and source records attributed to P E Huntzinger.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2001

Developing a quick reference formulary.

The establishment of the Department of Defense Basic Core Formulary was an attempt by the Department of Defense to equilibrate its pharmacy benefit among military treatment facilities. Department of Defense military treatment facilities are required to make available to beneficiaries items on the Basic Core Formulary. Military treatment facilities may augment the Basic Core Formulary through local pharmacy and therapeutic committee actions that result in different formularies among military treatment facilities. Formulary differences among military treatment facilities also arise because the Coast Guard, which is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation in peacetime, is not required to adhere to the Basic Core Formulary at present. Because of formulary differences, most military treatment facilities make available abbreviated, quick reference versions of their formularies to patients. This article describes the development of a quick reference formulary at a Coast Guard military treatment facility pharmacy.

Formularies, Hospital as Topic↗

PubMed2000

Pharmacy officer support of U.S. Coast Guard cutters.

U.S. Public Health Service commissioned officers serve in 16 pharmacy billets with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). Thirteen of these billets involve serving as points of contact for, and providing logistical, materiel, and educational support to, USCG cutters. USCG instructions have solidified the role of pharmacy officers in the support of USCG afloat units. This article describes one USCG pharmacy officer's experience in providing pharmacy service support to USCG cutters based in Alameda, California, Yerba Buena Island (San Francisco), California, and Honolulu, Hawaii.

Naval Medicine↗

PubMed1997

Implementing a formal cytotoxic agent program at an overseas medical treatment facility.

United States Naval Hospital (USNH), Okinawa, Japan, is the Navy's largest outside continental U.S. hospital, with 104 inpatient beds. An historical vision for the hospital has been to become the military's medical referral center for the Western Pacific. In keeping with this version the hospital has sought to expand, upgrade, or initiate certain health care services. One service that has been pursued over the last decade has been implementation of a formal cytotoxic agent program. This was finally accomplished in August 1995 with the signing by the Commanding Officer of USNH Okinawa Instruction 6570.1. The purpose of this paper is to explain how the program was implemented; described the services of the program sought to provide; discuss the key players involved with the implementation process; describe hindrances to program implementation; and, finally, to describe USNH Okinawa's experience with the program.

Antibiotics, Antineoplastic↗