Clinical pharmacy services in an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded.
The impact of a focused drug regimen review process based on clear objectives and of interdisciplinary team cooperation is described. By shifting from a pharmacy departmental focus, which was primarily on drug distribution activities, to a broader agenda that promotes pharmacists as clinicians, inroads were made in reducing medication doses per resident, decreasing nursing time spent in medication administration, and decreasing pharmacy expenses in this residential facility for the developmentally disabled.
McKee
J R
JR
Western Carolina Center, Morganton, NC 28655.
D016527:Drug Costs; D017723:Drug Utilization Review; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D007380:Intermediate Care Facilities / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D008509:Medication Systems / Q000592:standards; D009657:North Carolina; D010593:Pharmaceutical Services / Q000458:organization & administration*