YAKHAK HOEJI (약학회지)

The Pharmaceutical Society of Korea (대한약학회)
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The Necessity of Pharmacist in Specialty for the Diabetic Pharmacotherapy

치료의 증진을 위한 당뇨전문약사의 필요성

  • Park, In-Kyung (Department of Pharmacy, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Lee, Soo-Young (Department of Pharmacy, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Yun, Jee-Yeon (Department of Pharmacy, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Han, Ok-Youn (Department of Pharmacy, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Lee, Bo-Reum (College of Pharmacy, Cbitrc, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Jang, Je-Kwan (College of Pharmacy, Cbitrc, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • La, Hyen-Oh (Department of Pharmacy, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Lim, Sung-Cil (College of Pharmacy, Cbitrc, Chungbuk National University)
  • 박인경 (서울성모병원, 약제부) ;
  • 이수영 (서울성모병원, 약제부) ;
  • 윤지연 (서울성모병원, 약제부) ;
  • 한옥연 (서울성모병원, 약제부) ;
  • 이보름 (충북대학교 약학대학 임상약학실) ;
  • 장제관 (충북대학교 약학대학 임상약학실) ;
  • 나현오 (서울성모병원, 약제부) ;
  • 임성실 (충북대학교 약학대학 임상약학실)
  • Published : 2009.08.31
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Abstract

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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