PMID: 16536939Mar 16, 2006Paper

Pharmacy and therapeutics committees in Brazil: lagging behind international standards

Revista Panamericana De Salud Pública = Pan American Journal of Public Health
Dirce Cruz Marques, Paola Zucchi

Abstract

The inadequate use of drugs leads to lack of therapeutic efficacy, adverse reactions, side effects, preventable drug interactions, increased bacterial resistance to antibiotics, and wasted resources. Changing this scenario is one of the most complex challenges facing health systems today. One approach used to rationalize the use of drugs lies in the creation of pharmacy and therapeutics committees, whose main role is to guide and assist health institutions at all levels in selecting drugs and monitoring their use, training professionals to use drugs rationally, and collecting systematized information to guide new strategies and actions. Brazil, unlike other parts of the world, does not make it compulsory to have pharmacy and therapeutics committees. Although committees for monitoring hospital infections are compulsory in that country, their action is restricted to hospitals and is not as broad as that proposed for pharmacy and therapeutics committees. Data from 2003 shows that among 250 public and private hospitals in Brazil, only 29 had pharmacy and therapeutics committees. It is essential that the need to make these committees compulsory at all levels of the Brazilian health system be discussed, and that the national Ministry...Continue Reading

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May 30, 2019·Cadernos de saúde pública·Rogério HoeflerJaneth de Oliveira Silva Naves
Feb 18, 2014·Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology·Elisangela da Costa Lima-DellamoraClaudia Garcia Serpa Osorio-de-Castro
Nov 20, 2018·Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology·Joseph O FadareLars L Gustafsson
Sep 4, 2014·Ciência & saúde coletiva·Rachel Magarinos-TorresClaudia Garcia Serpa Osorio-de-Castro

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