Documenting the provision of pharmaceutical care.

There is a growing importance and need for the documentation of the clinical work done by the pharmacist in providing pharmaceutical care. The data provided by documentation of care are critical to the effective and efficient transition from a product-based profession to a patient-care, service-based profession, especially during a period of great scrutiny of resource utilization in the hospital industry. Intervention documentation can serve both to document the provision of pharmaceutical care to individual patients and to provide critical information to managers to justify and expand the level of service provided.