Priority area 26 | Livro Branco das Farmácias Portuguesas

Dimension II

PRIORITY AREA 26. REGISTRATION AND REPORTING OF THERAPEUTIC INFORMATION

Early detection of medication errors is crucial to avoid adverse consequences, benefiting from a collaborative approach between the patient and health professionals. Pharmaceutical care must be person-centred, ensuring medication-related problems are identified, resolved and prevented. The development of information systems used in community pharmacies should support the implementation of a reporting culture, based on identifying and intervening in medication-related situations, such as overdoses, adverse reactions, interactions, adherence or ineffectiveness of therapy.^1,2

1. Medication Safety in Polypharmacy. Geneva: 2019. 2. Toklu HZ, Mensah E. Why do we need pharmacists in pharmacovigilance systems? Online J Public Health Inform 2016;8:e193–e193. doi:10.5210/ojphi.v8i2.6802.

PROPOSALS FOR ACTION

Promoting a culture of safety in community pharmacies, based on the pharmacist’s intervention, through the identification, recording and communication to the physician of safety failures related to the medicine.

Promoting practices that strengthen the pharmacist’s intervention in pharmacovigilance and encouraging the reporting of events to the national pharmacovigilance system.

Development of technological tools to support pharmaceutical intervention in the context of pharmacovigilance, integrated with the systems that support the daily activity of pharmacies.