Drug Information Lecture 1 (Introduction) PDF

Drug Information Mina Youssif George, PhD Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, ASU. Email: [email protected] Room: 311 Have you ever heard about … Sources of Literature Dr...

Drug Information Mina Youssif George, PhD Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, ASU. Email: [email protected] Room: 311 Have you ever heard about … Sources of Literature Drug scientific evaluation information centers information Medline Poison searching centers Drug Medication information errors & requests misadventures  Introduction Pharmacist The primary source for providing information about drugs Answer drug-related questions (Uses, Side effects, Drug Drug Expert interactions, Doses, ….. etc) Knows well adverse drug reactions – Medication errors – Journal articles searching Pharmacist may work at drug information or poison centers. Therefore, we study drug information    Definitions “Knowledge of facts through “A chemical applied to reading, studying and physiological system Drug Information practical experience”. that affects its function in a specific way Information may be either (mechanism)” objective info (gathered by scientific observations) or subjective info (gathered by practical experience). Therefore, Drug information describes the activities undertaken by pharmacists in providing information to optimize drug use. The Pharmacist is the responsible person who can provide accurate, unbiased and well-referenced information in response to patients’ drug issues. In other words, provision of drug info is one of the most fundamental responsibilities of pharmacist.  Definitions Drug Informatics “Is the use of technology as a tool in effectively organizing, analyzing, and managing medication use on patients”. For example, computer technology and artificial intelligence has changed positively the ability to store and access information. Anyone can find information on nearly every disease and treatment. A pharmacist can communicate with health care professionals or their patients or can obtain information easily. Drawbacks: 1- Need to validate the information obtained (due to many information available). 2- Misinformation may result in harmful behavior or medication error.  Definitions Drug Information Center (DIC) DIC is an official center in a health care setting with a trained specialist (Pharmacist) and library of drug information sources. The development of drug information centers and drug information specialist was the beginning of Clinical Pharmacy Practice (Pharmacist offering consultation on medication therapy). The growing number and complexity of drugs make process of selecting the most suitable drugs for individual patients by physicians increasingly complex.  Drug Information Center (DIC) Answering questions Prevention of Adverse drug Preparation of newsletters regarding drugs (Uses, SE, reactions and reporting new (Reports and reviews about interactions, …) ADR (Risk vs. benefit) new drugs) Drug Use Review/Evaluation Education (For a new medication that Roles of DIC (training, newsletters, becomes commercially websites) available) Managing drug formularies Self-care movement (A drug formulary is an Developing and monitoring (in which the patients have updated list of medications institutional medication usage growing desire for obtaining guidelines and policies and related information used information about their in a certain hospital or (i.e. antibiotics cycling) medications by themselves) medical center)  Drug Information Center (DIC) preparation DIC is an official center in a health care setting with a trained specialist (Pharmacist) and library of drug information sources. Sources Pharmacist (including Technology) Many courses are incorporated into Library of drug information sources (textbooks, pharmacy curricula to know drug computer databases and review articles). information concepts and skills. Internet (to help access info (validate the info !!!) Problem solving techniques. and communicate with patients worldwide). Communication skills. Registries for ongoing clinical trials. Special practice and training Own websites (to publish recent findings and (postgraduate). communicate). WHO Am I …. ??????  I am the primary source of information about drugs Pharmacist Using technology to manage patients’ drug use Informatics I am the scheduled rotation of one class of antibiotics with one or more different classes Antibiotics cycling I am a chemical applied to physiological system that affects its function in a specific way Drug We are the main components of DIC Pharmacist + Sources Preparation of drug newsletters is of my main concerns Drug info center