Diabetes hospital pharmacy

Raehl et al. reviewed results of questionnaires that were sent to directors of pharmacy in one-half of acute-care general medical-surgical hospitals in the United States that had at least 50 licensed beds to determine the extent that pharmacists provide ambulatory clinical pharmacy services.Overall, pharmacists performed nondispensing activities in ambulatory clinics in 19% of responding hospitals. Pharmacist involvement in oncology clinics occurred in 9% of institutions, second only to diabetes clinics (10%), and was more common than in cardiology (6%) or geriatrics, infectious disease, or pain clinics (4%). 

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