The focus of this Director's Forum is on regulatory compliance and it serves as the last in the small series of articles on core practices or competencies in hospital pharmacy practice. Future Director's Forum topics will include decentralized pharmacy services, medication safety clinical program development, and automation. The goal of the Director's Forum throughout 2006 is to provide readers with information on all of the necessary core competencies of hospital pharmacy practice, comprising a “toolkit” in establishing a patient-centered pharmacy department.
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