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Clinical and Hospital Pharmacy

After completing my Summer Internship in Clinical and Hospital Pharmacy at Shri Ram Singh Hospital and Heart Institute I would like to express the importance of Clinical Pharmacy in the hospitals. Clinical Pharmacy and its relation with Rational Therapeutics Rational use of drugs may be defined as "Patients receive medications appropriate to their clinical needs, in doses that meet their own individual requirements, for an adequate period of time, and the lowest cost to them and their community" (WHO 1985). Irrational prescribing and dispensing is a worldwide problem. There are reports that suggest that close to 75% of antibiotics are prescribed inappropriately even in teaching medical hospitals. One of the main reasons for antibiotic resistance is attributed to the irrational use of antibiotics. Thus, a policy on rational use of drugs should be an extremely important part of any National drug policy and it should aim at improving the overall health of the country...