Open AccessA Comprehensive Review of Pharmaceutical Care in Type 2 Diabetes Patients; Keeping Developing Countries in View
Author(s) -
B Ogbonna,
Azuka C. Oparah
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
asian journal of pharmaceutical research and health care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2250-1444
pISSN - 2250-1460
DOI - 10.18311/ajprhc/2017/7690
Subject(s) - pharmacotherapy , pharmaceutical care , pharmacist , medicine , disease management , intensive care medicine , health care , narrative review , disease , pharmacy , process management , family medicine , nursing , business , political science , parkinson's disease , law
Pharmaceutical Care (PC) represents a frontier in disease state management. It is a departure from the traditional drug dispensing of the past to comprehensive and holistic focus on patient disease management and outcomes of pharmacotherapy while systematically and actively identifying potential and actual problems in pharmacotherapy. This narrative review assessed the benefits of pharmaceutical care in promoting patient care and disease management. The study utilized synthesis of materials obtained retrospectively from officially reorganized databases. Some of the articles were obtained from officially reorganized documents. PC is patient oriented and empowers patients to actively participate in their treatment process. Pharmacist's device means of monitoring pharmacotherapy outcomes and systematically track problems of pharmacotherapy while taking responsibility for their actions. PC improves patients' outcomes, reduce cost, and promote patients quality of life.