Clinical pharmacy
Clinical Pharmacy
Clinical pharmacy (pronunciation: /ˈklɪnɪkəl ˈfɑːrməsi/) is a branch of pharmacy that involves the provision of patient care that optimizes the use of medication, promotes health, wellness, and disease prevention.
Etymology
The term "clinical" is derived from the Greek word "klinikos", which means "bed", referring to the practice of caring for patients at their bedsides. "Pharmacy" comes from the Greek word "pharmakon", meaning "drug" or "medicine".
Definition
Clinical pharmacy is a health science discipline in which pharmacists provide patient care that optimizes medication therapy and promotes health, wellness, and disease prevention. The practice of clinical pharmacy embraces the philosophy of pharmaceutical care, blending a caring orientation with specialized therapeutic knowledge, experience, and judgment to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
Related Terms
- Pharmaceutical care: A patient-centered, outcomes-oriented pharmacy practice that requires the pharmacist to work in concert with the patient and the patient's other healthcare providers to promote health, to prevent disease, and to assess, monitor, initiate, and modify medication use to assure that drug therapy regimens are safe and effective.
- Pharmacotherapy: The treatment of disease through the administration of drugs. As a field of study, it includes the knowledge of the origins, properties and best uses of drugs and the physiological actions, therapeutic uses and adverse effects of drugs.
- Pharmacokinetics: The study of how an organism affects a drug, in terms of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion.
- Pharmacodynamics: The study of the biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and their mechanisms of action.
- Medication Therapy Management (MTM): A service provided by pharmacists that improves health outcomes for patients. Pharmacists conduct comprehensive medication reviews, provide education, and collaborate with other healthcare professionals to identify, resolve, and prevent medication-related problems.
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Clinical pharmacy
- Wikipedia's article - Clinical pharmacy
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