Patient-focused care and pharmaceutical care: how do they organizationally work together?
As health care reform takes shape, many challenges face hospital pharmacists. An opportunity exists to combine the principles of patient-focused care and pharmaceutical care to restructure the pharmacy department. The goal of restructuring is to increase the amount of time pharmacists spend providing pharmaceutical care to patients.
MultiCare Medical Center, Tacoma, WA.
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D006754:Hospital Restructuring; D015285:Hospital-Patient Relations; D006801:Humans; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000458:organization & administration; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014861:Washington