Pharmacy practice is the discipline of pharmacy which involves developing the professional roles of pharmacists.

Areas of pharmacy practice include:

• Disease-state management
• Clinical interventions (refusal to dispense a drug, recommandation to change and/or add a drug to a patient's pharmacotherapy, dosage adjusments, etc.)
• Professional development
• Pharmaceutical Care
• Communication skills
• Health psychology
• Patient care
• Prevent drug abuse
• Prevent drug-drug interactions or drug-food interactions
• Prevent (or minimize) adverse events
• Incompatibility
• Drug discovery and evaluation
• Detect pharmacotherapy-related problems, such as:
  • The patient is taking a drug that he doesn't need.
  • The patient is taking a drug - for a specific disease - but not the right one.
  • The patient is taking a drug underdosed.
  • The patient is taking a drug overdosed.
  • The patient is having an adverse effect to a specific drug.
  • The patient is suffering from a drug interaction.
  • The patient needs a drug for a specific disease, but is not receiving it.

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