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What is pharmaceutical care?
Pharmaceutical care and other healthcare providers promote health, prevent disease, and assess, monitor, initiate, and modify medication therapy regimens to ensure that drug therapy regimens are safe and effective.
The goal of Pharmaceutical Care:
The goal of Pharmaceutical Care is to optimize the patient’s health-related quality of life, and
achieve positive clinical outcomes.
A methodical way to achieving these objectives:
1) It necessitates a long-standing patient-pharmacist interaction.
2) It necessitates the keeping of medication records as well as the collection, organization, recording, monitoring, and maintenance of other patient-specific information with the patient’s informed consent.
3) It necessitates the evaluation of patient-specific medical information and, in the case of prescribed medicines, the development of a therapy plan involving the patient and the physician.
4) It is the pharmacist’s responsibility to ensure that the patient has all of the supplies, information, and knowledge required to carry out the drug therapy plan.
5) It requires the pharmacist to collaborate with the patient and healthcare team to assess, monitor, and change the treatment plan.
(1) Personnel knowledge and abilities,
(2) Data collection, documentation, and information transfer systems are all important components of providing high-quality pharmaceutical treatment.
3) Workflow processes that are efficient
(3) Workflow processes that are efficient
(4) Resources, equipment, and references
(5) Ability to communicate,
(6) A dedication to quality improvement and evaluation procedures.
(1) Personnel knowledge and abilities,
Personnel knowledge and abilities Knowledge and abilities in the areas of patient evaluation, clinical information, communication, adult education, and learning concepts, and psychosocial elements of care enable the implementation of pharmaceutical care. Responsibilities must be evaluated and assigned to appropriate employees, including pharmacists, technicians, automation, and technology, in order to employ their talents. The introduction of pharmacological care will be aided by a process for certifying and credentialing.
2) Data collecting and documentation systems
Patient care communications (e.g. patient contact notes, medical and medication history), inter-professional communications (e.g. physician communication, pharmacist-to-pharmacist communication), quality assurance (e.g. patient outcomes assessment, patient care protocols), and research are all supported by data collection and documentation systems (e.g. data for pharmacoepidemiology, etc.). Reimbursement considerations necessitate the use of documentation systems.
3) Workflow methods that are efficient
Incorporating patient care into the pharmacist’s and other personnel’s activities aids in the implementation of pharmaceutical care.
(4) Resources, equipment, and references
Resources, equipment, and references. Tools that facilitate patient care, such as technology to assess drug therapy adherence and effectiveness, clinical resource materials, and patient education materials, are used to support the implementation of pharmaceutical care. Computer software support, drug utilization evaluation (DUE) systems, illness management procedures, and other tools may be used.
5) Ability to communicate
Patient-centered communication aids in the implementation of pharmacological treatment. The patient has an important part in the overall management of the therapy plan during this discussion.
6) Programs for Quality Assessment and Improvement
Measuring, assessing, and improving pharmaceutical care activities using the conceptual framework of continuous quality improvement helps to support and improve pharmaceutical care implementation and practice.
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