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Dispensary in a hospital plays an important role in the hospital function and operation. One of the most important works in a dispensary is a preparation of prescribed medicine. Accordingly the most preferential heed should be paid to the appropriate number of pharmacists needed for a hospital dispensary for the effective performance of preparation of medicine work. This study intends to apply and examine in six general hospitals in Seoul the five methods available for determining the number of hospital pharmacists, including a method according to the legal number of pharmacists, and methods by number of sickbeds, by number of patients, by number of prescriptions, and total amount of medicine dispensed per day, and to calculate the quantity of works show through the practical medicine-preparing time by the utilization of coefficients. The coefficient is obtained from the linear repression between number of medicine dispensed and time needed to prepare for it. The resultant findings are as follows : 1) The methods by number of pharmacists in a hospital required by the law, by number of sickbeds, by number of patients, by number of prescriptions, and by the total amount of medicine dispensed per day have been examined through the six subject general hospitals, but give no uniformity. 2) Of the generally utilized standard for evaluating number of pharmacists in a hospital, the method the total amount of medicine dispensed per day and a method by the required time of practical medicine preparation by the use of cofficient show a large difference. 3) The required time of medicine preparation for a pharmacist generally shows an increase when the total amount of medicine dispensed per day is increased. But the required time for 1 preparation shows an inverse proportion the total amount of medicine dispensed per day. That is to say, as number of days of prescription increases, the required time per preparation shows a decrease. 4) A method of calculating coefficients available with adequacy in the measurement of quantity of works as a method of calculation of the appropriate number of pharmacists necessary for a hospital dispensary, is newly developed.
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