[Skill in making pharmacist's record and how to make use of it].
Pharmacist can make an impact on patients' quality of life by providing clinical interventions. These interventions are to be shared with other healthcare professionals and to be utilized to improve quality of care. As an attempt to provide a better care, pharmacists are making patients' record that contains patients' medical history, laboratory values, and conditions. These services are reimbursed by insurance. However, there are some concerns regarding fees for services provided by pharmacists; i.e., fees for patients' instructions are too expensive. One of the problems could be the fact that pharmacist-generated patients' record is not used or utilized by other healthcare personals and it is used only for the purpose of getting reimbursed. Therefore, it is necessary for pharmacists to realize the real purpose of making patients' record and create patients' records that will allow other healthcare professionals to make better therapeutic decisions. Such patients' record should have following characteristics: 1) The record to accomplish the systemic patient care management; 2) The record to share information in the team of medical treatment; 3) The record to define the pharmacist's role in the patient care; 4) The record that is available for the education of the pharmacist's problem-solving abilities; and 5) The record that can be disclosed to the patient and can be a legal basis. Thus, pharmacists should acquire the skills to make higher quality record. In this context, the pharmacy school should cooperate with hospital and community pharmacists, in order to establish education systems for development of these skills.
Kimura
Takeshi
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Department of Pharmacy, Nozaki Tokusyuukai Hospital, Daito City, Japan. t.kimura@phar.kindai.ac.jp
D002983:Clinical Competence; D016303:Clinical Pharmacy Information Systems; D004512:Education, Pharmacy; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010593:Pharmaceutical Services; D010595:Pharmacists; D024382:Professional Role; D011787:Quality of Health Care