The work developed by the team of professionals of Hospital da Luz Lisboa’s Pharmaceutical Services was distinguished, last month, by three different scientific organizations in the field. Jesús Luque wins the Blnov scholarship The Order of Pharmacists (South Region and Autonomous Territories Section) granted to the Jesús Luque project its Innovation Scholarship (Category of Pharmaceutical Intervention), in the amount of €1.500. The evaluation committee of the project – entitled “Implementation of the Unit of Research, Development and Innovation (I&D&I – Unidade de Investigação, Desenvolvimento e Inovação) in Hospital Pharmaceutical Services” – stressed by unanimity its “high relevance and quality”. First place in the APFH award On November 30, in the closing of the 17 th congress of the Portuguese Association of Hospital Pharmacists (APFH), the Scientific Award Professor Doctor Aluísio Marques Leal 2024 (Research and Innovation in Clinical Pharmacy) was delivered. The distinction was bestowed to the paper entitled “Impact of medication reconciliation by the pharmacist on the safety of patients submitted to major orthopaedic surgery” , authored by a research team comprising Margarida Castel-Branco and Isabel Vitória Figueiredo, teachers in the School of Pharmacy, Coimbra University, Karen Palermo, master student in Applied Pharmacology, and HL Lisboa pharmacists Jesús Luque, Miriam Capoulas and Cláudia Santos. First place in the SPFCS EN2 of Knowledge award In the latest edition of the EN2 of Knowledge (EN2 do Conhecimento) , an initiative promoted by the Portuguese Society of Health Care Pharmacists (SPFCS), the winning paper was developed by Hospital da Luz pharmacists. The work is about “a new metric to evaluate the use of antibiotics in paediatrics and the implementation of programs of rational use, viewing to avoid the increase of resistance to these medications”. The paper – entitled “Days of therapy (DOT) as a useful tool to measure antibiotic consumption: experience from a Portuguese hospital” – was presented by Ana Rita Silva (in the photo above).
