The 143rd Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan (Sapporo)

Organizer: Yuji Yoshiyama, Tosihiro Noda

The purpose of every pharmacist should be improving medication use and advancing patient care. Pharmacists will be the health care professionals responsible for providing patient care that ensures optimal medication therapy outcomes. The profession is moving toward a model that attempts to integrate patient-centered care with drug distribution services. The term pharmaceutical care is used to describe the broad-based, patient-focused responsibilities of pharmacists. Pharmaceutical care is a patient-centered, outcomes oriented pharmacy practice that requires the pharmacist to work in concert with the patient and the patient's other health care providers to promote health, to prevent disease, and to assess, monitor, initiate, and modify medication use. The goal of pharmaceutical care is to optimize the patient's health related quality of life, and achieve positive clinical outcomes, within realistic economic expenditures. Pharmaceutical care involves the pharmacist assuming pharmacist’s professional responsibility for drug therapy outcomes in addition to the safe, accurate, and efficient distribution of pharmaceutical products. Pharmacists are crucial in the selection of safe and effective prescription and nonprescription products for patients. Pharmaceutical care is one of very important roles. The objective of this symposium is that understand the necessity of a pharmaceutical knowledge in the provision of pharmaceutical care.