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Centro de investigaciones y Publicaciones Farmacéuticas
2006
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- Situation of Drug Information Centers and Services in Costa Rica Carolina Gomez Victoria Hall Fernando Fernández Llimós Medicina Costa Rica Drug information services PAHO establishes guidelines that must be met bydrug information centers (DIC) and the druginformation services (DIS).Objective: To describe the operations, activities,and resources of the DICs and the DISs affiliatedwith public institutions of Costa Rica, and theiradjustment to the provisions set forth by the PAHO.Methods: Descriptive study conducted in May 2003.The officers in charge of each of the seven publicDICs or DISs in Costa Rica were interviewed, andinquiries were made regarding aspects of thestructure and process of their centers.Results: In Costa Rica there are seven public druginformation units, that is, four DICs and three DISs.One of the DICs is located in this university, and theremaining six centers and services are in located inhospitals. Five of the centers do not have theprimary sources required by the PAHO. Fifteen outof the 36 tertiary sources recommended are notavailable in any of the centers. 100% of theinformation units carry out four main activities:answering inquiries from the hospital community,answering inquiries from users outside the hospital,implementing education programs for patients andrisk groups, and rotation programs for studenttraining.Conclusions: The activities developed by the DISsand the DICs in Costa Rica are similar to eachother; they respond not only to the PAHOsguidelines, but they also have similarities with theactivities and operations of other DICs worldwide.Primary, secondary, and tertiary bibliographicalsupport must be strengthened. 2006 artículo científico 1885-642X https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=69040206 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/690/69040206/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/690/69040206/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/690/69040206/69040206.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/690/69040206/movil en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=690 Pharmacy Practice application/pdf Centro de investigaciones y Publicaciones Farmacéuticas Pharmacy Practice (España) Num.2 Vol.4