Yailian et al., [
[1]
] describe the medical and pharmaceutical staff perspectives of pharmacist's interventions
in a clinical rheumatology setting in France. Interventions were classified according
to a classification system that denoted drug-related problems (e.g. untreated indication)
and the types of intervention thereafter (e.g. drug switch). A scale was used that
categorised the potential clinical impact as minor, significant, major, critical or
catastrophic. On evaluating the scale, there was found to be agreement between the
rheumatologist and pharmacist in terms of clinical relevance for about half the items
rated. We were interested to read this article as we have recently piloted the introduction
of an existing pharmacist's intervention tool previously reported on [
[2]
,
[3]
] in Namibia.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: May 10, 2019
Accepted:
May 2,
2019
Received:
April 29,
2019
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