The Peters Institute of Pharmaceutical Care is a research and program development unit within the College of Pharmacy at the University of Minnesota. The fundamental purpose of the Institute is to advance the practice of pharmaceutical care.
The mission of the Peters Institute is to develop educational programs to disseminate pharmaceutical care practice to students and practitioners, and to conduct research to evaluate the impact of this practice on patients and society.
The Peters Institute is committed to the belief that rational drug use is an essential component of health care, and that a pharmaceutical care practitioner making drug therapy decisions at the patient-specific level of practice is necessary to assure the appropriate, effective, safe and convenient use of drug therapy.
Founded in 1993, the first major work completed by the Peters Institute was the Minnesota Pharmaceutical Care Project. Conducted from 1992-1995 and involving 54 pharmacists in twenty practice sites around Minnesota, this project resulted in the definition of the practice of pharmaceutical care, a computerized documentation system, a reimbursement system, a training program, and data from 13,000 patient encounters. As a result of this project, the worldwide implementation and dissemination of this innovative practice has become part of the Institute's mission.
The second major undertaking was a book, Pharmaceutical Care Practice, authored by Robert J. Cipolle, Linda M. Strand, and Peter C. Morley and published by McGraw Hill, Inc. in 1998. This book details the practice, the practice management system, cost:effectiveness data, and the documentation system. It also discusses drug-related morbidity and mortality, presents the outcomes of the Minnesota Pharmaceutical Care Project, examines the teaching materials developed by the Institute, and outlines a reimbursement system for pharmaceutical care. This book was also translated into Spanish and Portuguese.
In 2004, the second edition of the book Pharmaceutical Care Practice: The Clinician's Guide was published by McGraw Hill, Inc. This edition builds on the first, delineating the patient care process and providing teaching materials and exercises for students and practitioners. It describes in detail the Pharmacotherapy Workup, provides updated and expanded data from pharmaceutical care practice, and describes the documentation and reimbursement systems. The standards of care for the practice are presented and ethical considerations are discussed Very importantly, it introduces a new concept in health care: the patient's medication experience, which is the sum of all the events in a patient's life that involve medication use. It is within the context of the medication experience that all drug therapy decisions are made. This edition of the book is intended to provide practitioners and students with the necessary skills to practice pharmaceutical care.
The Peters Institute has trained pharmacists in Spain, Columbia, Brazil, Chile, Australia, Republic of South Africa, Ireland, New Zealand, Sweden, Scotland, Canada, Iceland, and Thailand, resulting in better care for patients and greater patient care roles for pharmacists all over the world.
Currently, the staff of the Peters Institute and the Office of Outreach Education are involved in developing a web-based pharmaceutical care certification program based upon the numerous live programs taught in the United States and all over the world. This program will prepare the new practitioner who will provide pharmaceutical care to patients.
The Peters Institute has been successful in its efforts because it has focused developing the resources required to meet the drug-related needs of patients. This effort has required extensive input from practitioners and students. The staff at the Peters Institute has created an environment where practitioners, faculty, and students can work together to meet this goal.
The staff of the Peters Institute includes the Director, Professor Robert J. Cipolle, Professors Peter Morley, Linda Strand, Brian Isetts, Michael Frakes, and Lawrence Weaver, and Karen Meyers.
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