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Pharmacist clinics based on specified health conditions

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Ms Wung gives another example of one class of drug clinic, before moving onto the other models. She also introduces the 3 specified pharmacist clinics in her hospital.

Key concepts

One class of drug model:

Antidepressant medication clinic. At this clinic, pharmacist aims to improve drug adherence. Though they are successful in achieving that, the long-term treatment outcome needs to be monitored analyzed to prove the pharmacists’ contribution to patient health.

One health condition model:

For this model, the pharmacists need to be specialized in the target disease/health condition. Ms Wung will explain 3 cases as examples: clinics for diabetes care, asthma education, and heart failure post-discharge clinic.

Numerous condition model:

Clinics focusing on geriatric care. Pharmacists perform comprehensive medication reviews for the elderly with 5 or more medications. They use the STOP or START criteria to survey the medications and identify potential inappropriate drugs. However, the short-term outcome cannot directly reflect the long-term treatment outcome.

Electronic communication models:

Telemedicine. It is already proven that telemedicine has positive effects on disease control. This also greatly increases the flexibility of both pharmacists and patients.

In Taipei Veterans General Hospital, we have 3 pharmacist clinics.

Anticoagulation clinic (one class of drug model): It is a “one class of drug model” and once the patient enrolls in our service plane, the patient can choose to have face-to-face service or we contact the patient by phone. We also imply an electronic communication model in our clinics.
Transplant clinic (one health condition model) It’s focusing on immune person drug management, and it is one health condition model.
Medication therapy clinic (numerous conditions model) It deals with numerous conditions, So, it’s a numerous conditions model.