Achieving the World Health Organization's vision for clinical pharmacology

Jennifer H. Martin, David Henry, Jean Gray, Richard Day, Felix Bochner, Albert Ferro, Munir Pirmohamed, Klaus Mörike, Matthias Schwab

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Abstract

Clinical pharmacology is a medical specialty whose practitioners teach, undertake research, frame policy, give information and advice about the actions and proper uses of medicines in humans and implement that knowledge in clinical practice. It involves a combination of several activities: drug discovery and development, training safe prescribers, providing objective and evidence-based therapeutic information to ethics, regulatory and pricing bodies, supporting patient care in an increasingly subspecialized arena where co-morbidities, polypharmacy, altered pharmacokinetics and drug interactions are common and developing and contributing to medicines policies for Governments. Clinical pharmacologists must advocate drug quality and they must also advocate for sustainability of the Discipline. However for this they need appropriate clinical service and training support. This Commentary discusses strategies to ensure the Discipline is supported by teaching, training and policy organizations, to communicate the full benefits of clinical pharmacology services, put a monetary value on clinical pharmacology services and to grow the clinical pharmacology workforce to support a growing clinical, academic and regulatory need.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)223-227
Number of pages5
JournalBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
Volume81
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 1 2016

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The British Pharmacological Society.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Pharmacology
  • Pharmacology (medical)

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