Contrat de bon usage des médicaments: proposition d'une méthodologie pour réaliser l'état des lieux du circuit du médicament dans un Centre Hospitalier Général

In accordance with the provisions of the decree 2005 August 24th, the Cholet's Hospital made the situation of its drug use process, by means of a real method by conducting projects. A survey, using a questionnaire as investigation's tool, was made in the whole of the medical departments of the Establishment (22 departments) from October 4th to November 3rd 2005. This situation was performed by a pharmacist and implicated all of the concerned actors: physicians, pharmacists, health's managers and nurses. All in all thirty six hours were necessary to make interviews and inspections of the twenty two medical departments. The average time by department was 1.8 hours. Results underlined, in an educational way, that improving and making safety the drug use process is necessary in our Hospital Center.