Table 4.

Numbers and activities of hospital pharmacies and pharmacists.

Item	Number	Comments
Number of hospital pharmacists	412	There are 412 hospital pharmacists working in 45 hospital pharmacies in Austria. Only 15% of all hospitals operate their own hospital pharmacy [9].
Competences and roles of hospital pharmacists		The competences and roles of hospital pharmacists are defined by the Law on how to operate a pharmacy, which is an ordinance of the Austrian Medicines Act [8]: Provision and distribution of drugs, medical devices and other hospital-relevant goods (e.g., diagnostics, chemicals, reagents, etc.) Patient-specific compounding of individual prescriptions Checking of prescriptions for clarity and legal compliance Inspection of drug storage on wards Patient-oriented services–clinical pharmacy services with optimal, rational and safe pharmacotherapy Prescription in ambulatory care Pharma-economics Members of ethic committees Collaboration in clinical trials