Much of the success of PP&P is due to you, our readers. Most of our authors are also PP&P readers. Many readers reach out to us and suggest the articles you read in PP&P. Other readers call us with questions they are struggling with, and we in turn work with pharmacy experts to develop articles that address those challenges.

It is also from reader input that we create our annual survey reports:

• The State of Pharmacy Automation

• The State of Pharmacy Compounding

• Going Green

• Pharmaceutical Waste Management

With these reports, you can benchmark your facility’s smart pump adoption rate, your annual budget for pharmaceutical waste management, your cleanroom environmental monitoring practices, and your methods for managing pharmaceutical waste. Because so many of our readers share their facility’s practices in these surveys, we can report national trends in pharmacy purchasing and practices for you to benchmark against.

Without our reader’s committed participation, these reports would not have the same value. So if you are among the randomly selected Directors of Pharmacy who receive a survey email from me, please participate and complete the survey so that your facility’s practices will be a part of the final report.

To thank the many survey participants who have chosen to be a part of these reports, PP&P awards a digital camera to a randomly selected participant from each survey.

At the end of the year, we choose the winner of our grand prize, from all of the survey participants, and award their department 10 iPods!  (Note that the more surveys you complete, the more likely you are to win the grand prize for your department!)

We would like to extend our deep gratitude to all of our survey participants and acknowledge our 2008 grand prize winners — Congratulations!

All the best,



R. Mitchell Halvorsen