Pharmaceutical care and patient outcomes: notes on what it is we manage

The decisions described above and the issues introduced here must be demonstrated when a pharmacist chooses to provide pharmaceutical care, or when a manager decides to create a patient-focused pharmaceutical care system for the purpose of contributing to positive patient outcomes and preventing negative patient outcomes. Indeed, it is reasonable to argue that in any pharmaceutical care system where patient outcomes are seen as the primary focus, managers are in urgent need of a rationally based pharmacotherapeutic plan that includes the fundamentals of effective, safe pharmaceutical care. Clearly, this is what they must implement, document, and evaluate in order to further develop and legitimize their areas of responsibility.