Drug Information Center - Shubra Khit Central Hospital

* Definitions:


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- Knowledge of facts through; reading, study, or practical experience on chemical substance that is used in:

1- Diagnosis
 2- Prevention
 3- and treatment of a disease

- It covers all types of information including;
1- objective and subjective
2- information as well as information gathered by scientific
3- observation or practical experience

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*Objectives:
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1- Enhance the image of the career.

2- Gain self-confidence therefore you can play
your natural role again in the health system.


3- Promote evidence based practice.


4- Meet the patient’s needs while providing
pharmaceutical care.


5- Improve the patient adherence.

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- It describes the activities undertaken by pharmacists in providing information to optimize drug use.


- It is those services which cover the activities ofspecially trained individual to provide accurate, unbiased, factual information in
response to patient oriented drug problems that are received from health care professionals.

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* Services of the DIC:
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> Answering drug related inquiries

> The scope of the DIC responses covers queries related to:

1- Availability/Drug identification/Investigational drugs.

2- Drug dosing/Pharmacokinetics.

3- Drug-drug/Drug-lab/Drug-food interactions.

4- Drug therapy (drug of choice/selection)/Therapeutics.

5- Adverse drug reactions.

6- Poisoning.

7- Stability/compatibility.

8- Herbal /Natural products.

9- Pharmaceutical compounding.

10- Pregnancy and lactation.

11- Cost.

12- Patient counseling.