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Pharmaceutical Care and Specialty Practice
Author(s) -
Hepler Charles D.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
pharmacotherapy: the journal of human pharmacology and drug therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.227
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1875-9114
pISSN - 0277-0008
DOI - 10.1002/j.1875-9114.1993.tb02720.x
Subject(s) - specialty , pharmaceutical care , merge (version control) , pharmacy , medicine , health care , pharmacy practice , clinical pharmacy , nursing , variety (cybernetics) , quality (philosophy) , medical education , family medicine , political science , computer science , information retrieval , philosophy , epistemology , artificial intelligence , law
The practice of pharmaceutical care is a possible goal for all pharmacists' professional maturation. Six issues exist in which pharmaceutical care may represent a radical departure from some contemporary clinical practices. Because no profession is capable of providing pharmaceutical care singlehandedly at an acceptable level of quality, it is necessary to construct systems that organize the necessary variety of professionals and patients for managing drug therapy. In such a system, pharmacists can organize specialty practice around a strong general practice of pharmacy that is able to coordinate drug therapy and manage for outcomes, organize around the practice of medicine as if pharmacy were a medical specialty, or merge into the organization of a hospital or other healthcare organization.