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KMID : 0370220090530040217
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Yakhak Hoeji
2009 Volume.53 No. 4 p.217 ~ p.221
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The Necessity of Pharmacist in Specialty for the Diabetic Pharmacotherapy
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Park In-Kyung
Lee Soo-Young
Yun Jee-Yeon
Han Ok-Youn
Lee Bo-Reum
Jang Je-Kwan
La Hyen-O
Lim Sung-Cil
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Abstract
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Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by hyperglycemia and abnormalities in carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism which is resulting chronic microvascular, macrovascular, and neuropathic complications. Therefore, correct and consistent educations for pharmacotherapy is important and especially drug consultation by the specialty pharmacist of diabetic pharmacotherapy is necessary for all diabetic patients. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the necessity of the specialty pharmacist of diabetic pharmacotherapy and this study was performed from June 31th, 2008 to October 9th, 2008 in Kangnam St. Mary’s Hospital, Seoul, S. Korea throughout the questionnaire and evaluated the total 68 patients who were participating the multidisciplinary diabetes team programs. We evaluated the patient characteristics (n=68), learning status (difficulty 70.4%), wanted further education (68.3%) and preference of educator (pharmacist 46%) after finishing team teaching by multidisciplinary diabetes team program. In conclusion, many diabetic patients(80.3%) wanted individual and further drug consultation by the pharmacists who are specialized in the diabetes individually and they are needed.
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KEYWORD
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diabetes, multidisciplinary diabetes team, drug consultant
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