Purchasing is a basic function in the material management department. Professional expertise is required to be exercised to obtain materials of proper quality and in proper quantity. The basic purpose of purchasing is to ensure a…
Drug stores are defined as a sub-organization in any hospital where materials obtained are held in abeyance till inspected, approved, and stocked. A store should have a standard specification of materials and since the stores pro…
Drug utilization review (DUR) is defined as an authorized, structured, ongoing review of prescribing, dispensing, and use of medication. DUR encompasses a drug review against predetermined criteria that results in changes to drug…
Pharmaceutical care is the responsible provision of drug therapy to achieve definite outcomes that improve a patient’s quality of life. These outcomes are: • Curing a disease, • Elimination or reduction of a patient’s sympt…
A medication history is a detailed, accurate, and complete account of all prescribed and non-prescribed medications that a patient had taken or is currently taking before a newly initiated institutionalized or ambulatory care. It…
A ward round is a visit made by a medical practitioner, alone or with a team of health professionals and medical students, to hospital inpatients at their bedside to review and follow up on the progress in their health. Usually, …
Pharmacist Intervention: Interventions by pharmacists have always been considered valuable input by the healthcare community in the patient care process by reducing medication errors, rationalizing the therapy, and reducing the…
It is a fundamental responsibility of a pharmacist to ensure the safety and efficacy of medication orders. • It serves as starting point for other clinical pharmacy activities (medication counseling, TDM, DI, and ADR). • Or…
Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) refers to the measurement and interpretation of principally blood or plasma drug concentration measurements to optimize a patient’s drug therapy and clinical outcome while minimizing the risk of …
Taking the medication history of the patient: A clinical pharmacist must take and maintain the medication history of the patient by interacting with him. He should document the hypersensitivities or allergies to certain drugs, f…