Standards of Care in Pharmacy

Description
This is a presentation explains Industrialization of production of medicines, quality care standards, pharmacy education alongwith examples of medical management.

STANDARDS OF CARE
IN COMMUNITY PHARMACY PRACTICE

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Community pharmacy

Industrialisation of production of medicines

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Community pharmacy

Advisor on health-related issues

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Community pharmacy

• Quality policy and assessment

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Community pharmacy

Strengths
• Employment

Weaknesses
• Apparent loss of traditional role

• Accessibility

• Deprofessionalisation
• Economic scenario

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Community pharmacy

“Some form of quality programme

should be implemented
internationally within the profession or even better within the pharmacy itself”

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Community pharmacy

• Quality policy and assessment
• Establishment of pharmacy standards

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Quality Care Standards Good Pharmacy Practice Guidelines 1993 Adopted in Japan. 1997 In Vancouver presentation of revised version endorsed by the WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations. 1998 In The Hague adoption of the guidelines on Good Pharmacy Practice in Developing Countries. 2003 In Sydney presentation of results from the Working Group on Quality Care Standards
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Quality Care Standards Working Group Response (2003) 23 organisations replied (n=110, 21%) 21 organisations had quality care standards
EUROPE Croatia Denmark Finland France Germany Israel Malta The Netherlands Norway Nordic Association Portugal Serbia* Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom

Western Hemisphere Canada USA AFRICA Uganda JAPAN Japan ASIA, PACIFIC Australia** India Indonesia*

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Quality Care Standards

Purpose for development

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Area specific Generic approach

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Quality Care Standards

Purpose for development

Area Specific
? Drug information and counselling
(Nordic Association) ? Provision of pharmacist recommended medicines (Australia, Pharmaceutical Society)

? Prevention of errors in drug dispensing (Japan)
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Quality Care Standards Presentation



Guidelines



Audit

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Quality Care Standards

Presentation

Quality Care Standards: Guidelines
Guidelines are presented to create a quality environment, to promote responsibility for quality, to present aims and objectives of service provided and to present standard procedures.

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Quality Care Standards

Presentation - Guidelines

Examples - Dutch Pharmacy Standard

Informing and advising the patient
1.1.0 The pharmacist’s first concern is the welfare of the client. He will respect the client’s own responsibility. 1.2.0 The pharmacist supports the client to make well considered decisions regarding the use of medicines and health care products.
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Quality Care Standards

Presentation

Quality Care Standards: Audit
? Procedures to be followed are presented
? Quantitative approach - scoring ? Objective results

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Quality Care Standards
score

Greeting the patient I. The pharmacist gives immediate attention to the patient in an orderly way 3 The pharmacist greets the patient with a friendly message 2

II.

III. The pharmacist addresses the patient by
name 2

IV. The pharmacist is recognised by the patient or introduces himself to the patient 3

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Quality Care Standards
Areas included in generic standards (FIP working group, 2003)

Extemporaneous preparations 15 (83%) Handling of stock Interaction with patients Non-presc medicines 14 (78%) 13 (72%) 13 (72%)

Setting of the pharmacy
Documentation systems Dispensing presc. medicines

13 (72%)
12 (67%) 11 (61%)
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Quality Care Standards

Extemporaneous preparations

India

Written standard operating procedures as well as standard formulations should be maintained for commonly made extemporaneous preparations.
Batch numbers of each medicine used for compounding should be recorded.

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Quality Care Standards
Areas included in generic standards (FIP working group, 2003)

Extemporaneous preparations 15 (83%) Handling of stock Interaction with patients Non-presc medicines 14 (78%) 13 (72%) 13 (72%)

Setting of the pharmacy
Documentation systems Dispensing presc. medicines

13 (72%)
12 (67%) 11 (61%)
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Quality Care Standards Handling of stock

United Kingdom

Pharmacists must not purchase or supply any medicines, food supplement or health care related product where they have reason to doubt its quality or safety.

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Quality Care Standards Handling of stock

Canada The pharmacist ensures the removal of outdated, mislabelled or deteriorated drugs, and those recalled from regular stock, for storage in a separate area for appropriate disposal.

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Pharmacy Education

Community pharmacists contribute to patient care in multiple processes by identifying, resolving and preventing medicine-related

problems and facilitating access to safe and effective pharmacotherapy.

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Pharmacopoeia

Drug information Formularies Listing of drugs used in a particular setting eg. British National Formulary (BNF)

Compendium
containing descriptions,

standards, official
assays for medical substances eg.

European
Pharmacopoeia (EP)

Pharmacopoeia

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Standards

• •

Standards
• Quality Care

Quality Control
Quality Assurance Good

Standards
• Good Clinical Practice

Manufacturing
Practice (GMP)


• Treatment protocols
• Chronic disease

Good Distribution

management

Practice (GDP)


Good Laboratory Practice (GLP)



ISO

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Example of Treatment Protocol for Heart Failure:

1.

ACE inhibitors: standard of care unless there is

a contra-indication to their use
2. 3. 4. 5.

Beta-adrenoceptor blockers: carvedilol Diuretics: thiazide/loop, spironolactone Digoxin Isosorbide dinitrate+hydralazine

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Example of Chronic Disease Management:

Management of hypertension
? confirmation of diagnosis through repeated blood

pressure measurement
? patient assessment ? reviewing treatment options ? establishing treatment goals ? identification and management of other risk

factors (eg hyperlipidaemia)
? follow-up

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Example of Chronic Disease Management:
Management of hypertension

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Example of Chronic Disease Management:
Management of hypertension
Physiology, Biochemistry

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Peripheral vascular resistance (depends on arteriolar volume)

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Cardiac output (depends on heart rate, contractility, filling pressure, blood volume)

Blood Pressure= Cardiac Output X Peripheral Vascular Resistance

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Example of Chronic Disease Management:
Management of hypertension Blood Pressure Measuring Equipment
? traditional mercury sphygmomanometer ? semi-automatic apparatus ? automatic apparatus ? Accuracy - Quality - CE marking
Medical devices

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Example of Chronic Disease Management: Management of hypertension
Pharmacology, Medicinal Chemistry

Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors
? Sulfhydryl group in captopril ? Dicarboxylate-containing ACE inhibitors

eg enalapril, perindopril
? Hydrophobic, heterocyclic rings

captopril

enalapril

perindopril
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Example of Chronic Disease Management:
Management of hypertension- Pharmacist review
?To monitor blood pressure

?To provide patient support with drug therapy and

lifestyle modifications
?To discuss symptoms and medication (identify

unwanted drug effects, any other drugs taken by patient for other disease states)
?To evaluate need for patient referral to physician ?To consider use of other drugs that reduce

cardiovascular risk (aspirin and statin therapy)

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