Basics of Compounding: Clinical Pharmaceutics, Part 1
Author(s): Allen Loyd V Jr
Issue: Sep/Oct 2016 - Volume 20, Number 5
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Page(s): 389-396
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Abstract: Pharmaceutics is relevant far beyond the pharmaceutical industry, compounding, and the laboratory. Pharmaceutics can be used to solve many clinical problems in medication therapy. A pharmacists’ knowledge of the physicochemical aspects of drugs and drug products should help the patient, physician, and healthcare professionals resolve issues in the increasingly complex world of modern medicine. Pharmacy is unique as it contains a knowledge base significantly different from that of physicians, nurses, and other health-related practitioners. The separation of the science and the practice of pharmacy have prevented the complete utilization of pharmaceutical sciences in the clinical environment far too long.
Related Keywords: clinical pharmaceutics, clinical pharmacy, drug chemistry, routes of administration, dosage forms, drug incompatibilities, excipients, patient compliance, drug stability, clinical outcome, adverse events, patient safety, solubility, bioavailability, particle size
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