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    The document discusses several challenges facing healthcare systems including rising costs, limited resources, disease burden, and ensuring quality and access to medicines. It emphasizes the importance of pharmaceutical care in addressing these challenges by managing drug therapy, providing counseling to patients, and monitoring drug treatment to improve outcomes. The document also outlines different types of pharmaceutical care including population-based care through managing formularies and individual patient care.

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    The document discusses several challenges facing healthcare systems including rising costs, limited resources, disease burden, and ensuring quality and access to medicines. It emphasizes the importance of pharmaceutical care in addressing these challenges by managing drug therapy, providing counseling to patients, and monitoring drug treatment to improve outcomes. The document also outlines different types of pharmaceutical care including population-based care through managing formularies and individual patient care.

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    New Concept of Pharmacy Practice

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    Qais Alefan

    R.Ph, B.Pharm, M.Pharm, PhD

    The number of medicines on the market has increased dramatically over the last few decades (quality & rational use?) Efforts to provide health care, including pharmaceutical care, are facing new challenges:
    Rising costs of health care Limited financial resources A shortage of human resources in the health care sector Inefficient health systems The huge burden of disease The changing social Technological, economic & political environment Globalization has led to new complexities due to increased travel & migration

    Access to medicines of assured quality is a major concern One third of the worlds population do not yet have regular access to essential medicines

    The affordability of medicines is a major constraint


    The economic burden falls most heavily on the poor Moreover, in many developing countries 10%-20% of sampled medicines fail quality control tests

    Appropriate to their clinical needs

    At the lowest cost

    Patients receive medications

    In doses that meet their own individual requirements

    For an adequate period of time

    More than half of all prescriptions are incorrect More than half of the patients fail to take their medications correctly There is growing concern at the increase in the global spread of antimicrobial resistance These challenges underscore the urgency of the need for global health sector reform

    Public health interventions

    Pharmaceutical care

    Effective medicines supply management

    An accessible, sustainable, affordable & equitable health care system which ensures the efficacy, safety & quality of medicines

    Rational medicine use

    Pharmacist
    improve therapeutic outcomes & patients quality of life

    managing drug therapy & concurrent nonprescription or alternative therapies

    communicate the correct information to patients are as important as providing the medicine itself

    Counselling

    Patient-centred care

    Providing drug info

    Monitoring drug therapy

    Medicines supply management

    Pharmaceutical care Evidence-based pharmacy Meeting patients needs Chronic patient care-HIV/AIDS Self-medication Quality assurance of pharmaceutical care services Clinical pharmacy Pharmacovigilance

    Pharmaceutical care is a revolutionary concept in the practice of pharmacy It includes emotional commitment to the welfare of patients as individuals who require & deserve pharmacists compassion, concern & trust

    However, pharmacists often fail to accept responsibility for this extent of care. As a result, they may not adequately document, monitor & review the care given
    Accepting such responsibility is essential to the practice of pharmaceutical care

    Pharmaceutical care

    Population-based pharmaceutical care

    Individual pharmaceutical care

    Population-based pharmaceutical care

    establish formularies or medicine lists develop & monitor pharmacy policies

    develop & manage pharmacy networks

    prepare & analyse reports of drug utilization/costs

    conduct DURs educate providers on medicine policies & procedures

    Individual pharmaceutical care

    manage drug therapy

    monitor medicine-related illness effectively individual drug therapy decisions

    reaching concordance

    In an increasingly complex health care environment, it has become difficult to compare the effectiveness of different treatments Health care interventions can no longer be based on opinion or individual experience alone Scientific evidence, built up from good quality research, is used as a guide, & adapted to each individual patients circumstances

    Pharmacist
    Informed patients Counseling

    Reduce DRPs

    Reduce wastage
    Improve adherence

    Pharmacists help in HIV/AIDS prevention

    Treatment & prevention services

    Adherence to chronic HIV/AIDS treatment

    Advise both on the choice of medicines and their safe and effective use

    Donabedian defined the three elements of quality assurance in


    health care as structure process & outcome

    Structure
    individual patient care in a practice setting

    Process
    provision of drug therapy

    Outcome
    improved or maintained quality of life

    counselling
    monitoring of treatment provision of drug information or education

    institutional patient care

    Describe the work of pharmacists whose primary job is to interact with the health care team, interview & assess patients, make specific therapeutic recommendations, monitor patient responses to drug therapy & provide medicines information Clinical pharmacists work primarily in inpatient settings & hospitals

    Pharmacovigilance is a structured process for the monitoring & detection of ADRs in a given context Pharmacists have an important contribution to make to post-marketing surveillance & pharmacovigilance

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