Development and Utilization of the Database of Problem List from Pharmaceutical Care Records Concerned with Problems and Assessments on Pharmacotherapy in Wards. Proposal to Use and Develop Jointly the Database of Problem List from Pharmaceutical Care Records.

Abstract

The compilation of a Problem List for certain problems regarding drug therapy obtained through a clinical pharmacy service is useful for detecting and preventing any adverse drug reactions or potential problems in clinical practice. Such useful information is not available many other pharmacists in Japan. We tried to develop a database and a software program for such a Problem List based on the pharmaceutical care records at our hospital according to our proposed format. This database consists of 771 data which can be cross-referenced to diseases, drug names and clinical divisions, respectively. Moreover, we can statistically evaluate the Drug Information contents by pharmacists using this database. We here in propose that all pharmacists in Japan carefully preserve their pharmaceutical care records based on our format and so that all may use the database jointly.