Pharmaceutical Care Plan References
Pharmaceutical care practitioners are responsible for providing effective and safe drug therapy for individual patients. This requires the application of consensus guidelines for pharmacotherapy to be incorporated into a patient-specific care plan for each individual. By their very nature, national consensus guidelines are designed to guide general approaches to the treatment or prevention of common diseases. Using these general approaches to guide individual therapies requires the clinical knowledge of the patient's unique drug-related needs and a comprehensive understanding of the related treatment guidelines. Toward this end, we set out to provide practitioners with a clinically useful set of care plan guidelines based on the most recent consensus guidelines for the medical conditions most frequently encountered in pharmaceutical care practices.
We first needed to construct a useful standardized approach to presenting this disease and drug information. The care plan outline is the first section in this manual. The care plan outline that was developed is based on the rational structure of the pharmacotherapy workup and includes sections describing Indication, Effectiveness, Safety and Compliance. We also included information describing the frequency and types of Drug Therapy Problems commonly associated with each condition. These data were derived from the records from over 7,000 adult patients who received pharmaceutical care between 1999 and 2003. These practice-based results were documented and consolidated using the Assurance Pharmaceutical Care system in the Peters Institute of Pharmaceutical Care at the University of Minnesota.
The care plan guidelines include:
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