Pharmacists' Interventions to Optimise Patient Care
A special issue of Pharmacy (ISSN 2226-4787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 3479
Special Issue Editor
Interests: clinical pharmacy; cancer research; health literacy; medication adherence; vaccine health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I am delighted to be Guest Editor of this Special Issue “Pharmacists' Interventions to Optimise Patient Care” of Journal Pharmacy. The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched its third global patient safety challenge, Medication Without Harm, which focuses on improving medication safety. The goal of the WHO challenge is to reduce severe, avoidable harm related to medicines by 50% in the next 5 years. Pharmacists have the unique skillset and competencies to rise to this challenge—we are the healthcare professionals who have the knowledge, expertise, and attitudes to be able to optimise patient care regarding medications.
The global challenge aims to encourage and enable patients, their caregivers, and healthcare professionals (for example nurses, physicians, pharmacists) to take an active role in ensuring safer medication practices and medication use processes including prescribing, preparation, dispensing, administration, and monitoring.
Articles in this Special Issue will focus on the pharmacist as a leader, team member, and collaborator within the multidisciplinary team, and can include quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods studies. I know that there are many initiatives happening within the community and hospital settings, and I would be delighted to be able to feature these in order to raise awareness and foster further research publications in this valuable area.
Dr. Laura Jane Sahm
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- medication safety;
- medication reconciliation;
- polypharmacy;
- transition of patients;
- health literacy
