Pharmacy preparedness in handling COVID-19 pandemic: a sharing experience from a Malaysian tertiary hospital

This commentary shares the experience of a hospital pharmacy department in providing healthcare services during the COVID-19 outbreak in Malaysia. During this pandemic, the medication delivery system is redesigned to minimize contact among patients and the health care providers. Also, the remote med...

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Autores principales: Thong, Kah Shuen, Selvaratanam, Manimegahlai, Tan, Chiew Ping, Cheah, Meng Fei, Oh, Hoey Lin, Lee, Pooi Mun, Chew, Chii-Chii, Chang, Chee-Tao, Lee, Jason Choong Yin
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8286857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34275491
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40545-021-00343-6
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author Thong, Kah Shuen
Selvaratanam, Manimegahlai
Tan, Chiew Ping
Cheah, Meng Fei
Oh, Hoey Lin
Lee, Pooi Mun
Chew, Chii-Chii
Chang, Chee-Tao
Lee, Jason Choong Yin
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Selvaratanam, Manimegahlai
Tan, Chiew Ping
Cheah, Meng Fei
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description This commentary shares the experience of a hospital pharmacy department in providing healthcare services during the COVID-19 outbreak in Malaysia. During this pandemic, the medication delivery system is redesigned to minimize contact among patients and the health care providers. Also, the remote medication monitoring system was implemented to deliver pharmaceutical care for inpatients. Communication technology was used to assist the pharmacist in medication counseling. QR codes to access videos demonstrating the use of devices were made available for patients. Pharmacists were also tasked with the procurement of personal protective equipment and medications needed requiring special approval from the Ministry of Health.
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spelling pubmed-82868572021-07-19 Pharmacy preparedness in handling COVID-19 pandemic: a sharing experience from a Malaysian tertiary hospital Thong, Kah Shuen Selvaratanam, Manimegahlai Tan, Chiew Ping Cheah, Meng Fei Oh, Hoey Lin Lee, Pooi Mun Chew, Chii-Chii Chang, Chee-Tao Lee, Jason Choong Yin J Pharm Policy Pract Commentary This commentary shares the experience of a hospital pharmacy department in providing healthcare services during the COVID-19 outbreak in Malaysia. During this pandemic, the medication delivery system is redesigned to minimize contact among patients and the health care providers. Also, the remote medication monitoring system was implemented to deliver pharmaceutical care for inpatients. Communication technology was used to assist the pharmacist in medication counseling. QR codes to access videos demonstrating the use of devices were made available for patients. Pharmacists were also tasked with the procurement of personal protective equipment and medications needed requiring special approval from the Ministry of Health. BioMed Central 2021-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8286857/ /pubmed/34275491 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40545-021-00343-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Selvaratanam, Manimegahlai
Tan, Chiew Ping
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Oh, Hoey Lin
Lee, Pooi Mun
Chew, Chii-Chii
Chang, Chee-Tao
Lee, Jason Choong Yin
Pharmacy preparedness in handling COVID-19 pandemic: a sharing experience from a Malaysian tertiary hospital
title Pharmacy preparedness in handling COVID-19 pandemic: a sharing experience from a Malaysian tertiary hospital
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