Questions for 10/12

1. Do pharmacists have to invest in mal practice insurance? Is it as much as beginner physicians?

2.  ..."The study was the first to quantify benefits from including pharmacists in real-time drug order decisions for specific medications and dosages. It found that pharmacist participation cut the rate of preventable adverse drug events by 66% and saved the ICUs an estimated $270,000 per year."

Essentially, who knows more about the drug and its effects, the physician or the pharmacist?

3. What are the different classifications of drugs?

4. When someone consumes more than the DDD, is this drug abuse?

5. Is the purpose of drug utilization to fight the need for drug therapy? I am confused as to what the article means by drug therapy