A RESEARCH STUDY AND REPORT ON CLINICAL PHARMACY SERVICES PROVIDED BY DOCTOR OF PHARMACY DURING THEIR CLERKSHIP IN HOSPITAL

Raison Philip; Manasa Rekha Mekkanti; Rinku Mathappan

Raison Philip Pharm D 6th year Intern Student ,Department of Pharmacy Practice, Gautham College of Pharmacy, RT Nagar , Bangalore , Karnataka, India.
Dr. Mekkanti Manasa Rekha RCPh, Pharm.D, (Ph.D) , Assistant Professor , Department of Pharmacy Practice, Gautham College of Pharmacy, RT Nagar , Bangalore , Karnataka, India.
Dr. Rinku Mathappan M.Pharm, Ph.D, Principal &Professor, Department of Pharmacognosy, Gautham College of Pharmacy, R.T Nagar, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Abstract

Clinical pharmacy is the branch of pharmacy concerned with the science and practice of rational medication use. Clerkship or rounds rotation refers to the practice of medicine by medical students. Aim: The aim of the study is the implementation of Doctor of pharmacy in clinical pharmacy services during the clerkship postings at the ESI Hospital, Indiranagar, Bangalore. Objective: Prescription study and analysis and preventing medication related problems such as adverse drug reactions, drug interactions and over dosages, performing drug utilization evaluation, providing drug information, patient counseling, improving the patient safety initiatives and health related outcomes, reducing work burden of physicians and providing better health care. Methodology: All the required data was collected from patients through patient representative interview and case sheets and treatment charts analyzed and reported by using adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, drug information query and answer, patient counselling and feedback forms. Discussion and Results: A total of 420 peoples were selected for the study from the different departments includes general medicine, pediatric, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedic and surgery a total of 674 services provided by the doctor of pharmacy professional and the data was analyzed with the help of prism graph pad software and the P-value was </=0.001 which states that the study was highly significant. Conclusion: The present study concludes that the Physicians has an increased workload, they are not able to manage all the healthcare services. So, it shows that the Doctor of pharmacy professionals can reduce the workload of physicians by acting as a bridge between the Physicians and Patients. Its urge that the Indian government should take an initiative to implement Doctor of Pharmacy services in our Hospitals to reduce the emergency and to provide better health care services.

Keywords: Clinical Pharmacy, Doctor of Pharmacy, General Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Prism graph pad software, Orthopedic, Pediatric and Surgery

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