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Practice
Dispensing pharmacy Pharmaceutical
Care
Product business Service (people)
business
Bring the product to
consumer Bring the
practitioner to
Decisions focus on the
patient
business
Decisions focus on
Inventory generates
the patient
revenue
Patient care
Available service supports
generates revenue
products
Available products
support service
One is not better than the other, but they require different
skills, knowledge, personnel, equipment, time, and resources.
Dispensing pharmacy Pharmaceutical
Care
Success measured as # of Success measured as
Rx patient outcomes
Space to display and sell Space organized to
meet patient needs
Records kept for legal
purposes Documentation to
provide quality care
Visits determined by refill
supply Visits determined by
patient risk/benefit
Business passive via
prescriptions Practice grows via
patient recruitment
Direct patient care
Assessment Follow-up
Care Plan Evaluation
Patient SELF CARE
Practitioner Practitioner
Pharmaceutical Care in Health Care
Primary Knowledge Responsibility in
the drug use
Focus Base process
Diagnosis
and
Medical Care Pathophysiology Prescribing
Treatment of the
patient’s disease
Mutual respect
Trust
Open communication
Cooperation
Mutual decision making
Structure of the Pharmacotherapy
Workup
Drug Therapy Problem Drug Therapy Problem
Unnecessary drug therapy Dosage too low
Needs additional drug therapy
Effectiveness
Dosage too high
Safety
Drug Therapy Problem Drug Therapy Problem
Ineffective drug Noncompliance
Adverse drug reaction
We have 2 scenarios
Scenario 1
1-All of the criteria are met;
The patient's drug-related needs are also being met
Continuous Follow-up
EXAMPLE
Key Points
A database of 20,761 patients who received
years.
therapies.
Frequency of patients by age.
Frequency of patients by number of
medical conditions
Key Points
Patients >65 years (n = 2072), had an average of 5
medications.
Percent
Unnecessary Drug Therapy 6%
Indication 34%
Needs Additional Drug Therapy 28 %
Ineffective Drug 8%
Effectiveness 28%
Dosage Too Low 20 %
Adverse Drug Reaction 14 %
Safety 19%
Dosage Too High 5%
Compliance Noncompliance 19 % 19%
Total 100%
Table 7-6
Drug therapy problems by category.
Table 2-13 Type of Drug Therapy Problem—Needs Additional
Drug Therapy
Protocol Carrier
Physician
(19%) Patient
(79%)
Table 2-24 Interventions Made to Resolve Drug Therapy Problems
Condition Declined
(16 %)
Condition Improved
or
Remained the Same
(84 %)
Clinical Outcomes
84% of the medical conditions requiring drug
therapy, which were not already stable at
the time of the first pharmaceutical care
encounter, improved (69%) or remained the
same(15%) through the provision of
pharmaceutical care.