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is a particularly important part of ensuring continuity of care during transitions across different settings
Medication reconcilation
Screening included tests waived under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments, such as cholesterol and glycated hemoglobin measurements, and screening for infectious disease(e.g., Streptococcus pneumoniae, hepatitis C, HIV, among others)
Preventive Services(Screening and Immunization)
Pharmacist in some care transition programs increasingly deploy more robust medication management in addition to obtaining accurate medication lists
Medication reconcilation
is a component of medication management, but also can be a stand alone service. This practice may be evolving from solely reconcilation to more robust medicatin management.
Medication reconcilation
Immunization include pharmacis-administered vaccinations, as allowed by each state's scope of practice.
Preventive Services(Screening and Immunization)
can be provided by a number of healthcare professions including pharmacist
Medication reconcilation
Some literature evaluates stand-alone counseling related to "health and wellness" such as tobacco cessation, or related to a patient's medication therapy with targeted goals of improving measures of medication use.
Education and Behavioral Counseling
Although the above services can be performed individually in collaboration with physicians or other providers, more formal collaborative care models have been defined in state practice guidelines to provide a mechanism for facilitating these services, in addition to enabling a broader scope of practice for pharmacists in close collaboration with physicians
Collaborative Drug Therapy Management
The principal type of arrangement is formally known as
"collaborative drug therapy management
is defined as a collaborative practice agreement between one or more physicians and pharmacists wherein qualified pharmacists working within the context of defined protocol are permitted to assume professional responsibility for performing patient assesments, ordering drug therapy-related laboratory tests, administering drugs, and selecting, initiating, monitoring, continuing, and adjusting drug regimens.
Collaborative Drug Therapy Management
Pharmacis-provided education and behavioral counseling can occur as one component of other interventions.
Education and Behavioral Counseling.
- Pharmacy-based Immunization
- Given legal authority through the R.A.
10918 (Philippine Pharmacy Act of 2016)
- authorized PPHA to conduct trainings.
PRC
The goal of this advocacy is to enhance competencies of community pharmacists who can provide immunization services directly in the pharmacy area.
- Pharmacy-based Immunization
- This advocacy can lead to increase of vaccination rates and reduce occurrence of vaccine-preventable diseases.
- Pharmacy-based Immunization
- is critical in the fulfilment of the highest attainable standard of health (WHO, 2008).
Access to essential medicines
- Activities include performing drug selection, procurement, distribution and use of medicines.
- Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management
- is in a strong position to use his/her expertise to contribute in building a strong and robust pharmaceutical supply chain that is integral part of the health care system.
Filipino pharmacist
- Coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antimicrobials, improve patient outcomes, reduces microbial resistance and decreases the spread of infections caused by multi-drug resistant organisms.
- Antimicrobial Stewardship
- The advocacy’s objective is to improve appropriate use of antimicrobials essential for preventing the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
- Antimicrobial Stewardship
