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Nana Aishatu Ahmed Pharmacists are your medicines experts Drug Information Centre: A resource for Evidence-Based Care Imagine Pharmacy is an old profession but has continued to evolve. We cant stop moving. Pharmacists

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Pharmacists are your medicines experts

Drug Information Centre: A resource for Evidence-Based Care

Nana Aishatu Ahmed

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  • Imagine
  • Pharmacy is an old profession but has

continued to evolve. We cant stop moving.

  • Research show patients interact with their

pharmacists 12-15 times a year as against 3-4 times with their doctors

  • People used to just fill prescriptions and no one

questioned what they were taking.

  • New drugs currently discovered and number of

drugs prescribed expected to more than double in the near future

  • Exciting times –We are at a Zenith in our ability

to manage, cure and prevent diseases.

Pharmacists

Pharmacists are dynamic, patient-

  • riented professionals committed to

fulfilling the health care needs of patients.

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Did you know?

  • The only healthcare professional who

is in regular contact with both ill and healthy people.

  • The profession continually ranked by

the Gallup poll as the most trustworthy profession.

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Practice Areas for Pharmacists

Hospital

  • Drug delivery and medication

safety

  • Patient education and

advocacy

  • Therapeutic drug monitoring
  • Teaming with other health

care providers

  • Research and clinical studies.

Academia

  • Education
  • Pharmacy Practice
  • Research
  • Mentorship
  • Administration

Regulation/Control

  • Education
  • Determination and

implementation of policies

  • Drug management
  • Enforcing regulations

page 4 Part of the health care team Shape the future of our profession

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Practice Areas for Pharmacists

Community

Mostly plays the role of clinical pharmacist

  • Prescription filling and drug

monitoring

  • Minor ailments management
  • Patient and community

education and advocacy

  • Administration and training of

staff

  • Research and clinical studies

(post marketing survey)

  • Specialised health checks
  • Medicine use review
  • Pill-box , smoking cessation

and weight management service

Industrial

  • Drug discovery and production
  • Research and clinical trials
  • Epidemiology _ safety reporting

for drug products and new product portfolios.

  • Legal and Regulation – work with

NAFDAC

  • Drug information and education
  • Sales and marketing

Public Health

  • Education and advocacy in

communities

  • Research – epidemiology and
  • utcomes studies
  • Responsible for the health of an

economy.. page 5 Part of a team in the industry

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Other Practice Areas for Pharmacists

Forensic

Pharmacogenomics

Veterinary Hospice care Drug Information

Non-traditional setting

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The Unifying Role

Providing Knowledge

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Assess the patient

It starts with the patient

Ask the question

Develop a clinical question

Acquire evidence

Find resources

Appraise

Check for validity, and applicability page 8

Evidence- based Practice

is the integration of clinical expertise, patient values, and the best research evidence into the decision making process for patient care.

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Apply

Talk with the patient, integrate all 3

Self-Evaluation

Monitor outcomes and evaluate performance page 9

Evidence- based Practice

is the integration of clinical expertise, patient values, and the best research evidence into the decision making process for patient care.

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Drug Information

What is drug information

  • The process of providing information on safe and

effective use of therapeutic medicine and diagnostic pharmaceuticals.

  • Most pharmacists are already equipped with the

knowledge

  • pharmacist-provided drug information, adverse-

drug-reaction monitoring, and formulary management have been associated with significant reductions in the total cost of care in hospital settings, as well as reductions in patient deaths

About a drug information specialist

  • The depth of information depends on the areas of

practice .

  • Requires dedicated time to explore and learn
  • An up to date review of scientific literature, attend

presentations of drug companies – read, analyse and critically appraise.

  • Requires you to know more than the average

practitioner

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Research

$5,226,128.22 $391,604.94 10,463

Reduced total cost of care per hospital

Cost of care

page 11 Carried out in the United States of America showed that the presence of a drug information center providing its services in 232 hospitals Reduction in the death.

Death

A reduction in drug costs per hospital

Drug cost

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Requirements for a drug information centre

Infrastructure and Facilities

  • Space
  • Computers, a

phone, resources, furniture

Personnel

  • A medicine expert

and at least one assistant

Dedication

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Functions of A Drug Information Centre

Drug Evaluation

Requires access to research papers and journals

Education

Provide information to professionals and the public

Therapeutic Advice

Efficacy, interactions, dosages, adverse effects, strategies

Research

Research activities like drug utilizations studies

Toxicology

Information and advice on diagnosis and treatment

  • f poisoning

Pharmaceutical Advice

Relates to formulation , cost, storage and stability

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FUNCTIONS OF A DRUG INFORMATION CENTRE Pharmacovigilance Disseminate Information

Monitor adverse drug events

Form of bulletins, and newsletters.

Primary – Respond to enquiries about therapeutic use of drugs

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Role of the Pharmacist in Drug Information

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  • Communicates information about the services available.
  • Responds to queries accordingly to the degree of urgency.
  • Maintains a documented system for recording details of the

query & enquirer.

  • Maintains documents for recording various responses to

queries.

  • Records the queries & their response references.
  • Stores drug information service documents.
  • Ensures the service is evaluated at regular intervals.
  • Seeks regular feedback from users to ensure that the drug

information service has been provided in a timely and satisfactory manner.

  • Perform quality assurance of the information which has

provided for improved quality of service.

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How it benefits us

The world gets - Access to unbiased evidence-based drug information by all people We get – Recognition for our expertise The Patient

  • Improved health
  • utcomes
  • Satisfaction with care

provided Healthcare Team

  • Improve inter-

professional collaboration

  • Encourages research

Economy

  • Generate useful health

data for state and national intervention

  • Contributes greatly to

reduction of morbidity and mortality.

  • Achievement of health

related Sustainable Development Goals

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The Problem

Man Power

Inadequate so

  • verworked and

cannot focus on what matters

Remuneration

It is poor and not motivating

Communication

We lack confidence Especially with the team, they don’t receive the information well

Education

On paper, well educated but not up- to-date.

Change

Do things the way they have always been done. page 16

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Innovation

Seek, implement and embrace the innovations .

Education

  • equipped with the

necessary ammunition

  • goes beyond the

MCPD.

  • professional

development plans

Communication

an open line of communication Monitored page 17

Solution

Realization that being a pharmacist is enough. First class medicines expert –r second class medical doctor

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  • Pharmacists can be active members of the

healthcare team and restore their professional image

  • Unlearn, relearn, imbibe change and

innovation

  • Invest time and money in education.

Summary

Way- Forward

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  • Imagine
  • Drug information is the birthright of

pharmacists.

  • We have been over-educated and under-

utilized but that stops now.

  • The world is finally ready for our expertise.

Summary

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References

  • Bond C.A., Raehl C.L., Franke T. (2000) Clinical

pharmacy services, pharmacy staffing, and the total cost of care in United States hospitals. Pharmacotherapy 20: 609-21 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1592/phco.20 .7.609.35169

  • FIP Pharmacy Information Section (2005).

Requirements for Drug Information Centres. http://www.cff.org.br/userfiles/file/cebrim/Requirement sforDrugInformationCentres%202005%20final.pdf

  • Melton, B. L., & Lai, Z. (2017). Review of community

pharmacy services: what is being performed, and where are the opportunities for improvement? Integrated Pharmacy Research & Practice, 6, 79–89. http://doi.org/10.2147/IPRP.S107612

  • Sackett, D.L., Rosenberg, W., Muir Gray, J., Haynes

R.B., Richardson W.S. (1996) . Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't. BMJ. 312 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.312.7023.71

  • WHO essential medicines and health product

information portal. https://apps.who.int/medecinedocs/en/d/jh2995e/1/htm l

  • http://www.nacds.org/pdfs/comm/2014/pharmacist-

role.pdf

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Thank You

Aishatu Nana Ahmed 234--------- Pharm.ayeesha@gmail.com www.iamaishaahmed.com