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Journal of Pharmacy Practice
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Clinical Software in Long-term Care Consultant Pharmacy Practice

James A. Sherman

Intertech/Pharmacy Services, Evangelical Health Systems, 2025 Windsor Dr, Oak Brook, IL 60521

As evidenced in 1985, and confirmed through preliminary analysis of a 1988 survey, 96.3% of long-term care (LTC) providers were using computers in providing dispensing services. It is the challenge of using this current tecnhology to merge existing drug management (prescription processing) and clinical applications that identifies the frontier of computerized pharmacy practice. Software programs are currently available that enable the consultant to uniformly apply set indicator criteria without ommission or human memory lapse to all LTC resident drug regimens. It is the degree to which these drug regimen review software programs may be integrated with prescription processing software, and the extent that the programs exceed the indicators that may be used in evaluating their impact and value. This value may be reflected in decreased consultant pharmacist review time, patient benefit, physician response, perceived administrator/nursing home benefits, and the usefulness of reports and outcome statistics generated. The advantages, disadvantages, guidelines for software evaluation, and currently available clinical programs are presented in order to provide accurate information to those consultant pharmacists seeking to expand or implement new computer based clinical services.

Journal of Pharmacy Practice, Vol. 1, No. 3, 218-224 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/089719008800100311
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