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10518457

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-11-30
pubmed:abstractText
We developed pharmaceutical management and guidance services for inpatients in a ward of circulatory medicine, considering clinical and economical standpoints. In these services, pharmacists deliver drugs prescribed for inpatients with individual drug information papers, explain to them about their drugs using information papers and give counsel. Since most of the patients were aged people, developing many kinds of diseases and taking many kinds of drugs, they had many problems such as lack of knowledge of the effects of drugs. First, we surveyed views of patients, physicians and nurses on these services. Consequently, all of them advised us that "pharmacists should explain to patients about the prescribed drugs using information papers." The patients preferred pharmacists as expositors of drugs to physicians or nurses. The physicians considered that "pharmacists have to attach importance to clinical information and package-inserts of drugs and explain to patients about drug information using pamphlet in response to the understanding of patients." The nurses wanted to cooperate with pharmacists in "improving medication compliance." On the basis of these views, we improved our services. Next, we made a survey of patients' knowledge about their drugs. We found that in the patients the level of knowledge concerning "ways," "effects" and "reasons" of taking drugs and that of "compliance" and "satisfaction in taking drugs" were improved through these services. The patients reentered in the hospital kept a high level. The ratio of patients taking drugs by themselves increased. Last, we also applied this method to wards of "blood and collagen diseases" and "pediatrics." The demand for these services increased smoothly. We compared these services based on our method with all other services by hospital pharmacists from the viewpoint of economy. We found that only our service method was beneficial.
pubmed:language
jpn
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0031-6903
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
119
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
710-30
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
[Development and assessment of the pharmaceutical management and guidance services for inpatients considering clinical value and economy].
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pharmacy, University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa Medical University, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract