The Pharmacist Guide to Implementing Pharmaceutical Care

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. What is Pharmaceutical Care

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Definitions of Pharmaceutical Care and Related Concepts

      • J. W. Foppe van Mil

      Pages 3-10

   3. Pharmaceutical Care and the Role of Drug-Related Problems

      • Tommy Westerlund

      Pages 11-22

3. Pharmaceutical Care Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-24

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   2. Pharmaceutical Care and the Role of the Patient

      • Sophie Liekens, Veerle Foulon

      Pages 25-31

   3. Pharmaceutical Care and Patient Counseling

      • Afonso Cavaco

      Pages 33-40

   4. The Role of Adherence in Pharmaceutical Care

      • Parisa Aslani, Rana Ahmed, Filipa Alves da Costa

      Pages 41-57

   5. The Role of Interprofessional Communication in Pharmaceutical Care

      • Veerle Foulon, Joke Wuyts, Sophie Liekens, Giannoula Tsakitzidis

      Pages 59-68

   6. Medication Review and Medication Reconciliation

      • Nina Griese-Mammen, Martin Schulz, Fabienne Böni, Kurt E. Hersberger

      Pages 69-87

   7. Documenting Pharmaceutical Care

      • Tommy Westerlund

      Pages 89-94

   8. Quality Control in Pharmaceutical Care: Guidelines and Protocols

      • Martina Teichert

      Pages 95-106

   9. Structure, Process, and Outcome, and Their Indicators

      • Martina Teichert

      Pages 107-117

   10. Economical, Clinical, and Humanistic Outcomes and Pharmaceutical Care

       • Heather E. Barry, Carmel M. Hughes

       Pages 119-127

   11. The Role of Core Outcome Sets for Pharmaceutical Care Research

       • Anna Millar, Audrey Rankin, Mairead McGrattan, Maureen Spargo, Carmel M. Hughes

       Pages 129-140

4. Pharmaceutical Care Around the World

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-143

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   2. Pharmaceutical Care in North America

      • Lawrence Brown, Enrique Seoane-Vazquez

      Pages 145-158

   3. Pharmaceutical Care in Europe

      • Filipa Alves da Costa

      Pages 159-171

   4. Pharmaceutical Care in Australia and New Zealand

      • Timothy F. Chen, Prasad S. Nishtala

      Pages 173-182

   5. Pharmaceutical Care in Latin America

      • Aldo Alvarez-Risco, Shyla Del-Aguila-Arcentales

      Pages 183-190

Through the contributions of global experts, this book meets the growing need to understand the implementation and development of pharmaceutical care. Pharmaceutical Care Implementation details the clinical pharmacist's role in providing care to different kind of patients using clinical strategies that improve humanistic, economic and clinical outcomes.


Written with a focus for students and pharmacists, this book offers multiple scenarios that serve to improve technical skills. These examples show step-by-step implementation processes from pharmacists who have worked for many years in these fields: drug-related problems, pharmaceutical care in different settings (community, hospital, home care), research outcomes, communication skills, indicators, advertising, remuneration of practice, standards, guidelines, protocols and teaching approaches for universities.


Readers will use this book to:
- Improve their skills to prevent, detect and solve drug-related problems 
- Understand the characteristics of care for patients in different settings
- Consolidate knowledge from different global research outcomes
- Develop and improve communication skills to establish relationships with patients and healthcare professionals.
- Learn to use indicators, standards,guidelines,and protocols to guide and evaluate pharmaceutical care performance
- Use different tools to advertise pharmaceutical care services
- Document pharmaceutical care practices and create evidence for remuneration

• pharmaceutical care
• clinical pharmacy
• medication therapy management
• drug-related problems
• medicine use reviews
• pharmacotherapy

“The book provides a guide for delivering advanced services and thereby reducing such barriers and promoting collaborative working across healthcare professionals. … Prompting policy makers to consider what makes an effective guideline to enable effective pharmaceutical care services implementation, the book is able to cover the whole journey of implementation cycle.” (Vibhu Paudyal, International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, Vol. 40, 2018)​

• Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz (IUEM), Monte da Caparica, Portugal

  Filipa Alves da Costa

• van Mil Consultancy, Zuidlaren, The Netherlands

  J. W. Foppe van Mil

• Universidad de San Martín de Porres, Lima, Peru

  Aldo Alvarez-Risco

Filipa Alves da Costa is Associate Professor at Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz (IUEM) and Assistant Invited Professor at Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade de Lisboa (FFUL). Apart from teaching and researching in pharmacy practice, Filipa works as a researcher for the National Oncology Register focusing on effectiveness evaluation, and as a Consultant for the Portuguese Pharmaceutical Society, where she is responsible for professional strategic planning. She obtained her MSc in Pharmaceutical Care (FFUL) and her Ph.D. in Pharmacy Practice and Policy (University College of London). Dr. Alves da Costa has been president of Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe and is a member on the editorial board of the International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy.



Dr. J.W.Foppe van Mil is community pharmacist, community pharmacy consultant, and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy. He is also founding member and professional secretary of the Pharmaceutical CareNetwork Europe (PCNE). After obtaining his Pharm D in 1977 he was owner and manager of a large pharmacy in the Netherlands, and became active in the European Society of Clinical Pharmacy (ESCP), of which he became a Fellow in 2016. During his work for his PhD, which he obtained in 2000 at the Groningen University, he increasingly became involved in pharmaceutical care implementation and research. In the same period he also was involved in the continuing education around pharmaceutical care for community pharmacists at the annual Congresses of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). In 2017 he became honorary member of the PCNE.



Aldo Alvarez-Risco is a full-time researcher at the Universidad de San Martín de Porres in Perú. He is also a pharmacist, Doctor in Pharmacy and Biochemistry and Master in Pharmacology at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and Master Pharmaceutical Care at Universidad de Granada. He is the coordinator of the South American Network of Pharmaceutical Care (REDSAF). He has participated in various pharmacy practice and pharmacy policy research units and has presented various sessions at the annual FIP Congresses. He has been speaker at Pharma events in 20 countries. He has experience as a speaker for radio and TV appearances. 

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