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Categories of Drug Therapy Problems
Every drug the patient receives
undergoes the following evaluation:
• Drug being used Indica Effective • Current drug
unnecessary? tion ness therapy
ineffective
• Additional drug
therapy needed? • Dose is too low
for desired
• Need a drug but response
not receiving it
• Adverse drug Safe conven • Patient
reaction? ty ience adherent ?
• Current drug • Are there
dosage too high? barriers :..
physical,
• Drug/drug/food financial
interactions!
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Adverse Drug 123
Reactions
Definition:
“is a response to a drug that is noxious and
unintended and which occurs at doses normally
used in humans for the prophylaxis, diagnosis
or therapy of disease or for the modification of a
physiological function. “ WHO, 1970 Since
2012”
ADR also could result from medication errors
and uses outside the terms of the marketing
authorisation, including the misuse and abuse
of the medicinal product.
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