EAHP represents over 29,000 hospital pharmacists across 36 member countries. EAHP represents and develops the hospital pharmacy profession within Europe in order to ensure the continuous improvement of care and outcomes for patients in the hospital setting. This is achieved through science, research, education, practice, as well as sharing best-practice and responsibility with other healthcare professionals.
The EAHP Board, elected for three-year terms, oversees the association’s activities. Comprising directors responsible for core functions, it meets regularly to implement strategic goals. Supported by EAHP staff, the Board controls finances, coordinates congress organization, and ensures compliance with statutes and codes of conduct.
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The first member countries were Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, the Federal Republic of Germany and The Netherlands in 1972. EAHP has now 36 EAHP members and 2 Associate Members. EAHP is open to countries members of the Council of Europe and since 2022 to organisations representing the interests of hospital pharmacists from outside the Council of Europe (Associate Membership)
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EAHP brings together experts from many areas of hospital pharmacy practice providing and highlighting good local sustainable practices as that can be up-scaled and shared with other countries. The EAHP Working Group on Sustainability has the aim of reducing the environmental burden of the hospital pharmacy services.
The European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP), and its 36 member country platforms are creating a Common Training Framework for the hospital pharmacy education in Europe. The goal of this project is to allow the free movement of hospital pharmacists within the European Union.
The European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP) and the European Society of Clinical Pharmacy (ESCP) have collaboratively developed the Oath to Society. The Oath to Society is all encompassing and acts as a contract for excellence in providing compassionate patient care, working as part of the healthcare team and advancing the pharmacy profession, and showcasing how clinical and hospital pharmacists work every day
A day created to highlight the importance and to celebrate the work done by hospital pharmacies. This day celebrates all hospital pharmacy teams.
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The European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy (EJHP) is the only official journal of the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP) and is committed to advancing the science, practice and profession of hospital pharmacy. As the premier communication platform for hospital pharmacists worldwide, EJHP is a major source for continuing education as well as updates on advances in the practice and standard of pharmaceutical care for patients.
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The Sponsor Channel is designed to maximise visibility and engagement, allowing sponsors to connect with the hospital pharmacy community and partners in a dynamic and interactive environment. From product demonstrations to networking sessions, the Sponsor Channel offers a range of opportunities for sponsors to showcase their offerings and generate leads in the new EAHP Website.
Clinical Pharmacy Services
Wei Wang, Hao Bai
It depend on the pharmacokinetic (PK)/pharmacodynamic (PD) of vancomycin. Vancomycin can be described as a kinetic model with one compartment connected by a series of first-order kinetic rate processes. The mini programme uses two drug levels during the same dosing interval by the TDM to calculate the area under the curve (AUC) of vancomycin and integrated into patients’ condition and minimal inhibitory concentration of pathogen to provide an optimal dosing regimen of vancomycin.
We designed and developed a mini programme support for personalised therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of vancomycin. This programme can be easily used in the WeChat by the mobile device.
The traditional vancomycin TDM strategy, which is guided by trough concentrations, has several limitations:
The recommended trough concentration range of 10-15mg/L assumes that the bacteria’s minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) for vancomycin is ≤1mg/L. However, with the drifting of vancomycin’s MIC values over recent years, this trough concentration has not been able to effectively guide patient prognosis, as has been confirmed by many clinical studies.
There are practical difficulties: for example, the 2009 IDSA guidelines clearly specify that the trough concentration of vancomycin should be sampled half an hour before the fifth dose. However, in reality, due to misunderstandings by nursing staff or excessive workload, sampling times often deviate from this guideline.
After the trough concentration has been determined, there are no explicit measures for dose adjustment. The 2009 IDSA guidelines do not provide recommendations on how to adjust subsequent doses based on trough concentrations.
A decade later, in 2020, the IDSA released new vancomycin TDM guidelines. These guidelines suggest moving away from the trough concentration TDM strategy for vancomycin, and instead recommend using an AUC-guided strategy, determined by two-point blood concentration monitoring of vancomycin.
Vancomycin follows first-order pharmacokinetics. To monitor the AUC of vancomycin, it is necessary to measure the serum vancomycin concentration at two steady-state points, then use Monte Carlo simulations and Bayesian software to calculate the AUC and adjust the dosage. This process requires a large number of calculations. Therefore, there is an urgent need for an auxiliary decision making system in clinical practice that can facilitate personalised dosing of vancomycin.
This mini programme has run above 1 year, providing personalised medicine service of vancomycin to hundreds of patients in China, guiding the precise and rational use of antimicrobial drugs , enhancing the effectiveness of vancomycin and reducing drug toxicity in clinical practice.
