Controversy

Association Defends Pharmacists' Ability To Recommend Patient-Specific Therapy

Published in AIDS Weekly, December 8th, 1997

Clinical pharmacists possess the appropriate knowledge and skills to make therapeutic decisions and recommendations for patients, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) recently asserted in a letter to the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).

The letter came in quick response to a position statement IDSA published in the October 1997 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases (1997;25:802), which claimed that therapeutic decisions and recommendations should be made only by physicians, and that pharmacists who receive requests for such information should refer the requests to "appropriately trained physicians."

Although the...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1997-12-08)

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