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Implementation of Pharmaceutical Care in Hospitals and Clinics

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Although there is plenty of evidence that pharmacists performing medication reviews in a hospital setting as well as other pharmaceutical care activities is beneficial in different ways, the evidence is quite heterogeneous, and effects on primary endpoints have not yet been satisfactorily shown. There are still a number of factors that need to be determined; what methods should be used? By which profession and with which education and training? Which patients should be targeted? With an aging population, increasingly complex medication treatments, a shortage of physicians and nurses, the need for pharmaceutical care provided by clinical pharmacists in hospitals seems immense, and the question for the future will probably rather be if there are enough trained pharmacists to fill this gap. This chapter will focus on medication reviews and the opportunities and challenges for pharmacists to provide patients with pharmaceutical care in a hospital setting.

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Gillespie, U. (2019). Implementation of Pharmaceutical Care in Hospitals and Clinics. In: Alves da Costa, F., van Mil, J., Alvarez-Risco, A. (eds) The Pharmacist Guide to Implementing Pharmaceutical Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92576-9_21

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