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1. UK Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biosciences Vol. 4(1), 63-64, 2016 MINI REVIEW
Clinical Pharmaceutical Care: A New Management Health Care Discipline in 2016
Mauro Luisetto1*
, Ram Kumar Sahu2
1
Pharm D., Pharmacologist, European Specialist in Laboratory Medicine, Hospital pharmacist’s manager, Italy
2
Columbia Institute of Pharmacy, Tekari, Raipur (CG)-493111, India
Article Information
Received 18 Feb 2016
Received in revised form 6 April 2016
Accepted 7 April 2016
Abstract
The development of clinical pharmacy in 1960-70s and pharmaceutical care in 1990 has
represented an interesting innovation in pharmacy field. However clinical pharmacy and
Pharmaceutical care showed some practice critical limits: (a) clinical pharmacy approach is more
oriented to clinical population needs or pathology but is not strictly request to manage at the level
of every single clinical case. (b) In hospital setting Pharmaceutical care can not to be applied to
the entire patient for economic reason (limited number of pharmacist applied). In order to give
more rationale priority of actions and to select the patient to be seen in priority way we think a
good solution to apply the principle of pharmaceutical care with the instrument of clinical
pharmacy into a new management systems.
Keywords:
Clinical pharmacy,
Pharmaceutical care,
Management,
Medical teamwork,
Clinical outcomes
Corresponding Author:
E-mail: maurolu65@gmail.com
Mob. : 3402479620
1 Introduction
Using management philosophy added to the clinical pharmacy a
pharmaceutical care instruments (for example in priority way towards
critically ill patients, severe disease or therapy are very expensive).
We can improve also some clinical outcomes as reported in research
article but at the same time using in rational way the clinical
pharmacist resource
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Researcher reported “As a new innovative concept evidence-based
pharmaceutical care seems promising practice to improve the quality
of the pharmaceutical care”.
We encourage all hospital system pharmacists to promote this
phylosophy to improve the pharmacist profession. Other studies are
needed to transfer this concept in daily clinical pharmacy practice
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Observing some definitions and literature as:
ACCP:
The practice of clinical pharmacy embraces the philosophy of
pharmaceutical care
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.
ESCP:
“The clinical pharmacist to develop and promote the rational and
appropriate use of medicinal products and devices”.
Clinical pharmacy is more oriented to give response to population
needs with regards to drugs therapies.
Clinical pharmacy and pharmaceutical care are related discipline but
with some relevant differences: (but this is not clear to all
pharmacist and health care professionals)
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.
Is clear that the two disciplines are not the same even if oriented
towards Patients care in therapy field.
Clinical functions must be organized around patient need and
directed at clinical and economic outcomes and Clinical practice
should be core curriculum in practice of pharmacy.
(Pharmaceutical care as a practice application of a healthcare
science).
It describes a way that clinical pharmacy, especially specialists and
subspecialists, could coordinate their work more effectively
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.
Both clinical pharmacy and pharmceuticalcare present advantages
but also have limitation. To improve their goal is need to join in a
single professional specialty.
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2. Luisetto et al. Clinical Pharmaceutical Care: A New Management Health Care Discipline in 2016
UK J Pharm & Biosci, 2016: 4(1); 64
2 Materials and Methods
Even if the term clinical pharmaceutica care was already using
Observing in PUBMED biomedical database and university course
we do not find a discipline named Clinical Pharmaceutical Care (until
today).
We find an article on teaching the basis of clinical pharmaceutical
care published on Pub Med
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.
At the same way is demonstrated that the application of clinical
pharmacy or pharmaceutical care in medical team give general
positive effect also in different clinical outcomes
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3 Results and Discussions
Observing the corpus of clinical pharmacy and pharmaceutical care
discipline and their practical applications we noticed some relevant
difference that induce to create a new discipline to join the different
advantages provided by the two science.
4 Conclusions
We submit to the scientific community “Clinical Pharmaceutical Care”
as a new discipline .Discipline intended to improve clinical and
economic endpoint in pharmacological therapy reducing therapy
errors and with a more rational application of resource in medical
team (clinical pharmacist).This new approach take advantages using
the Management and ICT principles. We ask also to international
organization involved in hospitals accreditation and University to
recognize this new health care professional activity. We think that
core training must include principles of Management, ICT
Professional social media, psychological behavior skills for team
working added to be added to the classic clinical pharmacy
programs.
Theory and practical applications:
Also the knowledge in field of medical laboratory and imaging give a
great advantages in this new discipline for the hard relationship with
many drug therapy
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.For this reason also clinical pharmacist must be
involved. We strongly ask to public institution to apply this new
discipline to obtain more rational drug therapies and rational method
to use the clinical pharmacist resource.
5 Competing interests
No
6 Author’s contributions
All authors read and approved the final manuscript
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