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    Pharmaceutical care requires thorough documentation of the care process to ensure patient privacy and informed consent, as well as to justify expanded services. Documentation involves recording patient information, decisions made, and actions taken by the pharmacist in a way that demonstrates how the care provided relates to patient outcomes. While documentation is time-consuming, it is essential for maintaining patient trust and the ethical standards of care, as well as supporting the role of pharmacists within the healthcare system.

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    Pharmaceutical care requires thorough documentation of the care process to ensure patient privacy and informed consent, as well as to justify expanded services. Documentation involves recording patient information, decisions made, and actions taken by the pharmacist in a way that demonstrates how the care provided relates to patient outcomes. While documentation is time-consuming, it is essential for maintaining patient trust and the ethical standards of care, as well as supporting the role of pharmacists within the healthcare system.

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    Documentation of the Pharmaceutical-Care Process

    Documentation of the Pharmaceutical-Care Process is undertaken on a far broader scale, can be as invasive as
    surgery or any other medical intervention. In any case of proposed pharmacotherapy, patients should receive
    enough clearly communicated information to enable them to articulate reasonable subjective preferences and to
    reflect on alternatives, risks, benefits, and personal values concerning their well-being and self-determination.
    Information provided to the patient is considered adequate when it meets two standards: (a) the information is
    commonly provided by competent practitioners - including specialists - in the community, and (b) the information
    would allow reasonable persons to make prudent choices on their own behalf.
    Yet another important ethical issue in pharmaceutical care is confidentiality, which is essential to both the
    establishment and the maintenance of the patient's trust of the pharmacist. As are other health-care
    professionals, the pharmacist is obliged to maintain confidentiality in all matters related to information concerning
    the patient. That obligation, say Jonsen et al, "(is) justified by the right of privacy, by the expectations of the
    patient, and by the social advantages of the practice of confidentiality."
    Pharmaceutical care is both a clinical (empirical) and an ethical system and is characterized by a therapeutic dyad
    of trust and care. Thus, among the most important imperatives of pharmaceutical care are preference of the
    patient, beneficence, and respect for autonomy, informed consent, and confidentiality. A solid grounding in, and
    appreciation for, biomedical ethics is essential to the delivery of pharmaceutical care.
    Pharmaceutical care cannot be provided without the recording of certain information, decisions, and actions.
    Although documentation can be time consuming and intensive, its importance cannot be overemphasized.
    However, one of the first problems encountered in a discussion of how to document pharmaceutical care is that
    "documenting the pharmacist's activities" has come to mean many different things. Therefore, we need to
    understand how the term "documentation" has evolved in the context of pharmaceutical-care delivery and how it
    is now being used.
    The earliest use of the term in the pharmacy literature, in the late 1960s, referred to descriptive reports of a
    clinical pharmacy practice. The new concept of clinical pharmacy called for definitions, guidelines, policies, and
    procedures. The resulting descriptions of the type of services provided, along with general accounts of the
    activities performed (that is, job descriptions), represent the beginning of pharmacy's documentation of clinical
    activities. Unfortunately, documentation was not focussed on clinical issues and therefore did not provide the
    clinical data necessary to relate the pharmacist's case-by-case professional abilities to patient outcomes.
    Beginning in the late 1970s, a number of external changes and issues created an environment that made it
    necessary, popular, and indeed lucrative to redefine documentation to mean justification for continued or
    expanded pharmacy services. Documentation of clinical pharmacy services was being solicited primarily for
    maintaining or broadening pharmacy's territory and for establishing financial stability.

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