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病院薬剤師の医薬品情報提供業務の新たな展開

廣　田　育　彦*
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
Newly-Developed Drug Information Services
Provided by Hospital Pharmacists

Yasuhiko HIROTA*

Modern health care is supported by many health care professionals. Hospital pharmacists are required to accept increasing responsibilities for appropriate medication use, moving into more important roles within the health care system. Accurate drug information is indispensable for appropriate medication use, however, drug information is not always sufficiently utilized by physicians, and thus it is suggested that there is a need for providing individualized drug information(one to one advice to physicians). Hospital pharmacists must have access to patient-specific health care information and must monitor drug therapy directly in order to provide individualized drug information. Hospital pharmacists, with proper access to patient-specific health care information, can promote safer prescribing practices by advising both patients and physicians, and so can reduce patients' risk for medication-related problems and improve the quality of their health care. Optimal drug therapy is the goal for every patient. Together, using their respective knowledge bases, pharmacists and physicians could provide optimal drug therapy, benefiting both patients and the health care system.
[Rinsho Byori 51 : 341〜346, 2003]

*Department of Hospital Pharmacy, Kansai Medical University, Osaka 570-8507

【Key Words】drug information(医薬品情報)，hospital pharmacist(病院薬剤師)，appropriate medication use(医薬品適正使用)，patient-specific health care information(患者情報)，quality of health care(医療の質)

*関西医科大学附属病院薬剤部(〒570-8506 守口市文園10-15)

E-mail :hirotay@takii.kmu.ac.jp