Management of Drug Related Hospital Admissions : Improves Patient Quality of Life

ISBN-13: 9783330063723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 204 str.

Sundus Basharat Ali Bhatti; Shaheen Asmat Ali

Opis

Over the past 40 years, advances in drug therapies have both improved patient care and led to an apparent increase in the incidence of drug related problem (DRP's) being reported. DRP's are frequent and may result in reduced quality of life and even morbidity and mortality. This book focused on problem relating to complication of drug therapy resulting in significant illness and hospital admissions. Several broad recommendations for the reduction of DRP's have been proposed such as improving communication between acute and ambulatory healthcare providers when patient transition between care settings, conducting regular review of prescription medications to avoid therapeutic duplication and to discontinue unnecessary drugs. Community Pharmacist can detect and solve the numerous DRP's during regular drug dispensing and counseling. It is likely that patient, especially those taken multiple medications or high risk medicines, often have more DRP's than the other Pharmacist is able to identify at the time of dispensing. The solution to this problem is enhanced collaborative efforts among patients, physicians, pharmacists and caregivers with in the community and hospital.

O autorze

Sundus Basharat, Pharm-D: Studied Pharmacy at Lahore College for Women University. Project Management of Drug Related Hospital Admissions.