Pharmaceutical Care is a patient-centered, outcomes oriented pharmacy practice that requires the pharmacist to work in concert with the patient and the patient's other healthcare providers to promote health, to prevent disease, and to assess, monitor, initiate, and modify medication use to assure that drug therapy regimens are safe and effective. The goal of Pharmaceutical Care is to optimize the patient's health-related quality of life, and achieve positive clinical outcomes, within realistic economic expenditures.
A professional relationship must be established and maintained. Patient-specific medical information must be collected, organized, recorded, and maintained. Patient-specific medical information must be evaluated and a drug therapy plan developed mutually with the patient. The pharmacist assures that the patient has all supplies, information and knowledge necessary to carry out the drug therapy plan. The pharmacist reviews, monitors, and modifies the therapeutic plan as necessary and appropriate, in concert with the patient and healthcare team.