Evaluation of Pharmaceutical Care Application in Iraqi Hospital

Abstract

This study was designed to evaluate the effect of application of pharmaceutical care in an Iraqi hospital in decreasing drug-related problems in which the clinical pharmacist play the important role in Pharmaceutical care that introduced in the nineties of the previous century in the United States as a progression and development of the clinical pharmacy that starts in the sixties of the same century and developed in eighties.
150 patients were included in this study aged between two months to twelve years in Babylon hospital for gynecology and children. Those patients were classified to 5 groups. Each group divided into2 equal subgroups in which the pharmaceutical care plan was formulated to one of them to see the effectiveness of such application on those patients using the SOAP note (Subjective, Objective, Assessment and Plan), the groups are: 30 Respiratory disease patients, 30 Metabolic disease patients 30 Gastrointestinal disease patients, 30 Cardiovascular disease patients and 30 Hematological disease patients.
All patients were followed clinically to detect the causes of drug-related problems and the results revealed that the application of pharmaceutical care in the hospital can result in decreasing drug-related problems, increasing the therapeutic effectiveness of drugs, decreasing the risk of drug use and has economic benefits for the patient and the hospital. The benefits of pharmaceutical care can increased by application of such plans on large scales, qualifying the pharmacists in Iraq professionally to take their responsibilities and also other health care professionals especially physicians must be encouraged to accept the new roles of pharmacists.