Clinical pharmacy
The Clinical Pharmacy is a discipline of pharmacy which deals with the drug therapy of the patient.
For the contents of Clinical Pharmacy belong according to the revised licensing regulations for pharmacists, among others:
- Special features of pharmacotherapy in special populations (eg children, pregnant women) of certain treatment regimens
- Drug history
- Benefit -risk assessment of a drug therapy
- Therapeutic drug monitoring
- Compliance
- Pharmaceutical care
- Relation between pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics
- Population pharmacokinetic
- Clinical pharmacogenetics
- Nutritional Therapy
- Pharmacoepidemiology and economics
- Pharmacovigilance
By changing the licensing regulations for pharmacists in 2001, the Clinical Pharmacy came as a test subject in the second section of the Pharmaceutical Examination added (second state examination ).