Koteswar rao GSN
Department of Pharmaceutics, Galgotias University, IndiaPublications
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Research
Medication Reconciliation Led by Clinical Pharmacist as an Effective Strategy in Preventing and Reducing Adverse Drug Reactions
Author(s): Yerni Kumar B*, Chakravarthy Guntapalli, Koteswar rao GSN, Kishore Kumar K and Rajsekar A
Background and objectives: Alarming statistics of adverse drug reactions round the world is urging the health care professionals to focus on managing them in the best possible way. Although previous studies had focused on reporting the incidents and measured the severity of adr’s of most of the drugs. In contrast, our study is aimed to prove that implementing a few important strategies would prevent the adverse drug reactions and if occurred what efforts to be put in place in order to curb the incidence and severity. Preventing an adr would certainly imply the affirmation rendered to the patient by the clinical pharmacist and allied health care professionals. Aim: The main purpose of this study is to assess the outcome of ADRs upon execution of medication reconciliation and robust training to the nurses i.. Read More»
DOI: 10.4303/JDAR/236205