Clinical pharmacist's responsibility for the patients safety in drug information centers at Al-Basra District – Iraq
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clinical pharmacist's responsibility, patients safety, drug information centersAbstract
Drug information center (DIC) is an academy that provides objective, free and updated information on drugs and their use, and communicates to the different categories of users for better understanding and benefit of patients. Therefore, DIS belongs to an organization that provides information services about medications. The overall aim of the DIC is to promote rational medications use through scientific, objective, updated, free and evaluated information. The purpose of this research was to assess the use of drug information centers by health care professionals to improve medication safety. A data of six months were collected from November-2021 until May- 2022. The number of questions during this period was counted and all these questions were analyzed. 24% of these questions were made by the, 40%made by the pharmacist, 13% were made by the nurse and 19% were made by the patients. A total number of requests were responded during the 6 months period are 298 requests. This explains the importance of DIC in answering questions and providing adequate information about medicines.
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