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Presenting clinical pharmacology and therapeutics: a problem based approach for choosing and prescribing drugs.
Author(s) -
De Vries TP
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
british journal of clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.216
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1365-2125
pISSN - 0306-5251
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2125.1993.tb04185.x
Subject(s) - normative , action (physics) , set (abstract data type) , process (computing) , medicine , management science , computer science , cognition , clinical pharmacology , drug , risk analysis (engineering) , pharmacology , psychiatry , programming language , operating system , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , economics
As a guide to the rational choice and prescribing of drugs a normative (ideal) problem‐solving model has been developed. This model combines medical problem solving and decision analysis, practical medical aspects, and pharmacological facts and basic principles. It consists of a set of actions or steps: determine the goal for treatment, choose a (drug) treatment, start drug treatment, monitor the results, draw conclusions, determine further action, and stop, alter or continue treatment. All steps require several kinds of skills. The cognitive skills needed include the correct use of pharmacological facts and basic principles in the framework of the whole problem‐solving process.