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Clinical Pharmacy

Code 13668
Year 5
Semester S1
ECTS Credits 12
Workload PL(37H)/T(38H)/TP(75H)
Scientific area Ciências Farmacêuticas
Entry requirements To be a student of Integrated Master’s Degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences that meets the conditions to attend the 5th year of the course.
Mode of delivery Face-to-face
Work placements Not applicable
Learning outcomes The student should be able to: understand the evolution of clinical pharmacy; understand the importance of pharmacovigilance and how to report suspected adverse drug reactions; predict and detect drug interactions; understand the particularities in the treatment of special subpopulations (pregnancy, lactation, pediatrics and geriatrics); prepare the pharmacotherapeutic history of patients and make decisions in their pharmacotherapy follow-up; develop and apply pharmaceutical indication protocols in conditions susceptible to self-medication; select drugs based on efficacy, safety and cost/effectiveness criteria; know quality systems and to recognize their importance in minimizing medication errors and in the implementation of the good practices; recognize the importance of clinical research, with emphasis in clinical trials; know different types of pharmacoeconomic evaluations; acquire skills in the administration of vaccines and venipuncture.
Syllabus Clinical pharmacy: historical perspective and evolution, emergence of the pharmaceutical care concept. Pharmacovigilance. Drug interactions. Clinical pharmacy in particular conditions: pregnancy and breast feeding. Clinical pharmacy in special subpopulations: pediatrics and neonatology. Clinical pharmacy in special subpopulations: geriatrics. Therapeutic drug monitoring in the clinical practice. Pharmacotherapeutic follow-up: Dader method. Tools to support pharmacotherapeutic review in the elderly: Beers criteria, STOPP/START criteria and EU(7)-PIM list. Pharmaceutical indication protocols in conditions susceptible to self-medication. Selection of medicines and hospital committees. Medication errors. Quality systems and good practices in hospital pharmacy. Clinical trials. Pharmacoeconomics. Vaccines administration in the pharmaceutical practice and venipucture.
Main Bibliography - R Walker, C Edwards (2003); Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics. 3rd Ed., Churchill Livingstone
- CS Zeind, MG Carvalho (2018); Applied Therapeutics: The Clinical Use of Drugs.11th Ed., Wolters Kluwer
- Stockley's Drug Interactions (2005); London: Pharmaceutical Press. Electronic
- Farmacia Hospitalaria – CDRom, 3ª Ed., Fundación Española de Farmacia Hospitalaria
- Hernández DS, Castro MMS, Dáder MJF (2009); Método Dáder – Manual de Seguimento Farmacoterapêutico, 3ª Edição
- Norma Portuguesa - Sistemas de Gestão da Qualidade: Requisitos (ISO 9001:2015)
- Manual de Boas Práticas de Farmácia Hospitalar (2018), Processos de suporte, Ordem dos Farmacêuticos
- Padrões de Acreditação da Joint Commission International (JCI) para Hospitais (2021); 7ª Ed., JCI
- Formulário Hospitalar Nacional de Medicamentos (9ª Ed.)
- Prontuário Terapêutico
- Guidelines da Agência Europeia de Medicamentos
- Artigos científicos
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2025-01-10

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