Pharmacy practice

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Pharmacy practice is the discipline of pharmacy which involves developing the professional roles of pharmacists.

Areas of pharmacy practice include:

• Disease-state management
• Clinical interventions (refusal to dispense a drug, recommendation to change and/or add a drug to a patient's pharmacotherapy, dosage adjustments, etc.)
• Professional development
• Pharmaceutical care
• Extemporaneous pharmaceutical compounding
• Communication skills
• Health psychology
• Patient care
• Drug abuse prevention
• Prevention of drug interactions, including drug-drug interactions or drug-food interactions
• Prevention (or minimization) of adverse events
• Incompatibility
• Drug discovery and evaluation
• Detect pharmacotherapy-related problems, such as:
  • The patient is taking a drug which he/she does not need.
  • The patient is taking a drug for a specific disease, other than one afflicting the patient.
  • The patient needs a drug for a specific disease, but is not receiving it.
  • The patient is taking a drug underdose.
  • The patient is taking a drug overdose.
  • The patient is having an adverse effect to a specific drug.
  • The patient is suffering from a drug interaction.