Pharmacy

The Department of Pharmacy (Department of Clinical Pharmacy) of Qilu Hospital of Shandong University undertakes the daily work of the Hospital Pharmaceutical Affairs Management and Drug Therapy Committee, and is responsible for hospital-wide drug management, pharmaceutical professional and technical services, clinical pharmacist training, and the work of the Shandong Provincial Pharmaceutical Affairs Management Quality Control Center. As practitioners and supervisors dedicated to ensuring and promoting rational clinical drug use, all personnel of the Department of Pharmacy (Department of Clinical Pharmacy) uphold a service philosophy centered on patients and focused on rational drug use, implement standardized management, pursue innovation, and provide patients with high-quality, personalized, humane, and whole-process pharmaceutical care.

The Department of Pharmacy (Department of Clinical Pharmacy) consists of five units: drug supply, drug dispensing, the Pharmacy Intravenous Admixture Services (PIVAS) Center, clinical pharmacy, and preparations. It currently has 187 employees, of whom 95% hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 34 hold doctoral degrees and 29 hold master's degrees. It is an outstanding team of young, highly educated, highly qualified, and highly promising professionals.

The drug warehouse unit ensures the circulation of medicines within the hospital and is responsible for supplying medicines to the hospital's 19 pharmacies and the intravenous distribution center. The pharmacy unit is responsible for dispensing medicines throughout the hospital; its overall hardware, software, automation, and informatization standards rank among the best in China. As one of the first sentinel hospitals in China designated for deployment of the Chinese Hospital Pharmacovigilance System (CHPS), it was awarded the title of “Advanced Collective for Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring in Shandong Province” for three consecutive years. It drafted and compiled the Expert Consensus on the Rational Clinical Use and Management of Carbapenem Antibacterial Drugs in Shandong Province, advancing the rational use of antibacterial drugs in the province. PIVAS is a modern comprehensive medical-technical department integrating the “Party Building Comprehensive Service Platform,” the “Youth Civilization Initiative Innovation Platform,” and the “PIVAS Standardized Operating Procedures.” In 2007, it was designated by the former Ministry of Health as a national model unit; in 2008, it was named a “Youth Civilization Initiative” in Shandong Province; and in 2012, it was named a national-level “Youth Civilization Initiative.” PIVAS currently has a building area of 2640 m² and is equipped with 48 horizontal laminar-flow benches and biological safety cabinets. It serves 98 departments and 5000 beds throughout the hospital and is currently the largest Pharmacy Intravenous Admixture Services Center in China by scale. Several classic signature preparations produced by the preparations unit, such as nystatin cream, urea ointment, compound menthol nasal drops, and Anshen Pills, are highly favored by medical staff and patients and enjoy considerable recognition and an excellent reputation. It provides preparation dispensing and use services to more than 40 hospitals throughout the province and has received widespread recognition from its provincial peers.

Each year, the Department of Pharmacy (Department of Clinical Pharmacy) undertakes observational and internship teaching assignments for pharmacy and clinical pharmacy students from Shandong University and Shandong Medical College. From 2014 to 2021, it undertook 20 National Natural Science Foundation of China projects; personnel from the Department of Pharmacy, serving as first or corresponding authors, published dozens of high-level SCI papers, with the highest impact factor being 10.435. The department hosted 4 national continuing education projects and 3 provincial continuing education projects. In the 2021 “Fifth China Hospital Management Award,” the case submitted by the Department of Pharmacy (Department of Clinical Pharmacy), “Performance and Quality-Quantity Evaluation of Clinical Pharmacists to Support the Development of Hospital Pharmaceutical Services,” received the Regional Excellence Award in the Practice Case category; in addition, the case “Building Rational Drug Use Management Based on the DRPs-MDT-PDCA Model,” submitted by the Department of Pharmacy (Department of Clinical Pharmacy) in cooperation with the Medical Affairs Department, received the National Excellence Award in the Quality Management Group category.