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Enumerate Pharmacist’s Actions to Improve Patient Safety
- Ensuring medication access
- Supplying medication information
- Evaluating medication appropriateness
- Improving medication adherence
- Providing health and wellness services
- Performing medication management services
- Assesing Patients health status
- Coordinating care transition
is Expensive medicine is less than cost effective medicines
Medication frequency
More likely for patients to be more compliant
Medication Frequency
Blood sugar monitoring done by pharmacists at drug stores
Providing health and wellness
Medication Therapy Management
Performing medication management services for
Patient-centered
Medication Therapy Management (MTM)
IPE/IPC
Interprofessional education/Interprofessional Collaborator
Enumerate some of health professionals
Doctors
Nurses
Medical Laboratory Staff
Medtechs
Nutritionists/Dieticians
Radtechs
Physical Therapists
what does lab and food have in common
Medication interaction
Advising patients to visit their physician for follow up check-ups
Continuity of Patient Care
Telepharmacy and E-pharmacy are what example?
Assesing patient health status
take home meds adherence
Proper endorsement
Enumerate actions of coordinating care transition
- Proper endorsement
- Proper counseling
- Involve caregiver of PWD patients/Senior citizen patients
What is need for better prescription adherence?
Calendar format
Pill box
Enumerate Potential Impacts on Pharmacists Actions to Improve Patient Safety
- Achieved Patient Treatment Goals
- Avoided Adverse Effects
- Decreased Length of Time Patients Spends in Hospital or Rehabilitation Facility
- Decreased Number of Lists for Emergency Care
- Enhanced Patients Quality of Care
- Improved Medication Adherence
- Improved Patient Satisfactory
- Prevented Medication Error
- Reduce Cost to the Patient and/or Health Care System
- Reduced Time to Reach Patient Treatment Goals