International Hospital Pharmacy: Learning from Each Other

Over the past 2 years, the Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy (CJHP) has published the series “International Perspectives on Pharmacy Practice”, describing health care systems and pharmacy practice in diverse countries from all of the World Health Organization (WHO) regions (www.who.int/about/regions/en/). The series has included updates from Australia, South Africa, Belgium, Saudi Arabia, the United States, Nepal, Jordan, Japan, Italy, Brazil, and Kenya (see Box 1); the final articles of the series, concerning practice in Hong Kong and Thailand, respectively, will be published in 2018. Part of CJHP’s vision is to share information on “patient-centred pharmacy practice in hospitals and other collaborative health care settings . . . throughout the world”, and the series was designed to help meet this vision