title: Pharmaceutical care.
abstract: Drug-treatment failures can be prevented by applying a Pharmaceutical Care system. Therapeutic outcome monitoring is such a system, which can be applied to the (drug) treatment of several diseases like asthma, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Pharmaceutical Care is an outcome oriented, cooperative, systematic approach to providing drug therapy directed at the improvement of all dimensions of health related quality of life.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacy Health Care Administration, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida Gainesville 32610-0496, USA.
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Hepler
mesh_terms: D016903:Drug Monitoring / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D006801:Humans; D010593:Pharmaceutical Services / Q000592:standards*; D010595:Pharmacists