Abstract
Clinical pharmacy is now widely performed at Japanese hospitals. Clinical pharmacists are a member of the patient care team and play a new role in pharmacy practice. Drug consultants for doctors as well as counselors for patients also play an important role in clinical pharmacy. To improve such clinical pharmacy practice, we chiefly report to doctors following consultations.As a result of pharmaceutical consultations with doctors, 78.2% of the prescriptions were changed. This result indicates that such drug consultations by clinical pharmacists are useful for improving curative drug therapy. A case report regarding such a drug change after consultations is herein reported. In conclusion, consultations with doctors and clinical pharmacists and therefore considered to be necessary to improve the effectiveness of clinical pharmacy practice.
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