E-DRUG: Defining Clinical Pharmacy in Asia
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Dear Colleagues
Greetings from Penang
"Defining Clinical Pharmacy in Asia"
Clinical pharmacy promotes rationale drug usage and plays an important role in patient care. Though, well established in many industrialized countries, there is enough anecdotal evidence that people define clinical
pharmacy differently, especially in developing countries.
To understand this confusion and to construct a conceptual framework of establishment of clinical pharmacy in individual countries, we would be looking at the following themes:
1) Definition and concepts regarding clinical pharmacy
2) Professional's understanding regarding relationship between clinical pharmacy and rationale drug usage
3) Stable pharmaceutical system & establishment of clinical pharmacy (Can clinical pharmacy practice survive in the absence of a good pharmaceutical system?)
4) Clinical pharmacy practice in countries (with different socioeconomic status & GDP)
We will be conducting the study through questionnaire and telephone interviews. If you are from any of the following countries and have useful information about the issue, please write to me directly at
horizon_pharm@yahoo.com
The Name of the Countries:
1. Bangladesh
2. China
3. Egypt
4. Hong Kong
5. India
6. Indonesia
7. Iran
8. Japan
9. Jordan
10. Kazakhstan
11. Korea
12. Malaysia
13. Nepal
14. Oman
15. Pakistan
16. Philippines
17. Saudi Arabia
18. Syria
19. Thailand
20. UAE
21. Uzbekistan
Best Regards
Zaheer