Pediatric pharmaceutical care pharmacies.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 9 Pediatric pharmaceutical care pharmacies Author: Ma Zhaohui, Kenneth Lee, Jian-Cheng Zhu, Ma Furong [Keywords:] pediatric pharmaceutical care in pharmacies Pharmaceutical care in pediatric pharmacy Pharmaceutical care (pharmaceutical care) is the application of pharmaceutical expertise of pharmacists to the public (including medical staff, patients and their families) to provide direct, responsible, and drug use-related services, in order to enhance medication safety, effectiveness and the economy, to achieve improvement and enhance the quality of the ideal goal of human life [1]. ‘Provisional Regulations on Pharmaceutical Administration medical institutions’ proposed Article XI,’ pharmacy departments should establish a patient-centered pharmaceutical care model, to develop rational drug use as the core clinical pharmacy work, participation in clinical drug diagnosis, treatment, provision of pharmaceutical technology service, and improve quality of care. ‘Pharmaceutical care for patients covered in pharmacist with the process of drug-related services, pharmacy services, high or low levels of medical institutions, medical services reflects the level of sound to protect people’s health and ability to size. Children’s growth and development at the time, the nervous system, endocrine system and many organs do not improve the developmental, physiological feature is not yet mature, and detoxification functions are poor drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and the adults have significant differences, so when medication should give full consideration the physiological characteristics of children. However, children with parents in general medicine knowledge and to master a relatively small, and the market really suitable for children’s medicines species, size is limited, therefore the requirements of pediatric pharmaceutical care pharmacists more. A difference between children and adults with drug use Children are the rapid g