How to supply information to pharmacies during the inpatient transition to home care-information supply booklet required of pharmacies when collaborating on regional medical care

• Published in: Gan to kagaku ryoho Vol. 33 Suppl 2; p. 308
• Main Authors: Shiraishi, Takeya, Ebihara, Tsuyoshi, Yamaguchi, Hideki, Takeuchi, Hisako, Samizo, Kazuo, Kushida, Kazuki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese
• Published: Japan 01.12.2006
• Subjects: Community Pharmacy Services; Continuity of Patient Care; Home Care Services; Humans; Medical Records; Patient Discharge; Pharmaceutical Services; Pharmacists; Professional Role
• ISSN: 0385-0684

Recently, medical institutions have been actively trying to reduce the number of inpatients. When inpatients make a transition to home care, the first step is to ensure that they have a homecare doctor, and that a visiting nursing station and pharmacy are available. Next, home care services must be determined once hospital care information has been obtained and the wishes of the patient and their family have been established. However, pharmacies are often only contacted the day or the day before a patient is discharged from the hospital, so they are burdened with a considerable amount of preparation. Based on the information pharmacies need, we therefore created an Information Supply Booklet that medical institutions can hand to pharmacies upon discharge of patients. The entries have been classified according to core and non-core issues for pharmacies. This type of Information Supply Booklet is needed to help patients efficiently adjust to their post-discharge environment. In the future, we would like to revise this booklet into a common national format which would incorporate the views of medical institutions.