The purpose of this study is to unify the different concepts on dispensary business quantity and statistical values currently prevalent among hospital pharmacies and to try to factor out the optimum number of staff workers required to satisfy demands of the present medical law.
We randomly selected nine general hospitals in Seoul and compared and analyzed their oral medication prescriptions from July 19 to July 25, 1992, including Slip(S), Case(C), Item(I) and prescribed items per day(ID).
Dispensary besiness quantity differed. Depending on the medical and dispensary conditions of the hospitals surveyed. It was inadequate as values for Slip, Case and Item. Thus we have learned that the prescribed items per day reflections the amount of prescribed medication and the total number of days a prescription is taken is more adequate as an indicator of dispensary business quantity.
When we considered the enforcement regulations in Clause I, Article 28-6 of Medical Law, which says
The hospital whose daily prescribed items are over 80 and under 160 may employ one pharmacist and add another pharmacist with each additional 80 prescribed items.
and Clause 3 for the standard of pharmacy recuperation supply of the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs No. 91-38 regarding prescription standard, which says
Each prescription is limited to 4 items or less and each prescription cannot last more that three days.
we have drawn the Factor of the optimum number of the staff workers as following:
F=ID/960-1
where 960 is from 80×12 which is the business quantity of one pharmacist per day.
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