Abstract
Almost 30 million babies worldwide are born prematurely or become ill annually and need specialized care to survive. Formalized collaborative practice agreements (CPA) between clinical pharmacists and physicians have been put forward as a means for improving the overall medicating experience in many patient populations, including children. This report briefly describes opportunities for collaboration using examples from countries on each continent where CPA is established in professional governance documents and standards. It also provides resources in the form of a toolkit for countries and pharmacist–physician collaborators to authorize and form CPAs to provide comprehensive medication management (CMM) for children and youth with special health care needs (CSHCN).
Highlights
Almost 30 million babies worldwide are born prematurely or become ill annually and need specialized care to survive [1]
The importance of having adequate pharmacy technicians and other pharmacy support staff to allow clinical pharmacists to engage in advanced practice activities cannot be overemphasized [7]
The purpose of this paper is to provide a toolkit for global organizations in the developed and developing world to provide collaborative care (CPA) and comprehensive medication
Summary
Almost 30 million babies worldwide are born prematurely or become ill annually and need specialized care to survive [1]. The purpose of this paper is to provide a toolkit for global organizations in the developed and developing world to provide collaborative care (CPA) and comprehensive medication. To estimate whether a particular country has the capacity for CMM through CPA, an internet search was performed using the following search terms: children, pediatrics, clinical pharmacy, collaborative practice, collaborative care, pharmacist prescribing (PhP), partnership for care, board of pharmacy, pharmacy council, pharmacy guild, pharmaceutical society, regulatory, medication review, medication management, medication access, scope of practice, and each continent. Readers are referred to Appendix A for further information about educational standards, especially Fathelrahman et al The jurisdictional or regulatory documents of the countries listed in this report have a reference to CPA, CMM, or PhP and are profiled in World Health Organization (https://www.who.int/maternal_child_adolescent/child/en/), UNICEF (https://www.unicefusa.org/), International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP; http://www.fip.nl/), or Commonwealth Fund (https://international.commonwealthfund.org/) publications.
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