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Drug-treatment failures can be prevented by applying a Pharmaceutical Care system. Therapeutic outcome monitoring is such a system, which can be applied to the (drug)treatment of several diseases like asthma, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Pharmaceutical Care is an outcome oriented, cooperative systematic approach to providing drug therapy directed at the improvement of all dimensions of health related quality of life.

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  1. Department of Pharmacy Health Care Administration, College of Pharmacy, The University of Florida, Box 100496, 32610-0496, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Charles D. Hepler

  2. Co-Director, Dubow Family Center for Research in Pharmaceutical Care, College of Pharmacy, The University of Florida, Box 100496, 32610-0496, Gainesville, FL, USA

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C. D. Hepler, Pharmaceutical care. Pharm World Sci 1996; 18(6): 233–236.

Based upon Hepler, C.D. and Grainger-Rousseau, Tj. Pharmaceutical care versus traditional drug treatment. Drugs 1995;49:1–10 and on a presentation given at the First Dutch Symposium on Pharmaceutical Care. Utrecht, November 1995

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Hepler, C.D. Pharmaceutical care. Pharm World Sci 18, 233–235 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00735965

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