Definition of legal concept of pharmaceutical care and its legal liability / 中国药房

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE To pro vide so lutions for the appli cation of legal liability caused by the confusion of the concept of pharmaceutical care. METHODS Literature research and comparative method were adopted to clarify the legal concept of pharmaceutical care ，analyze the civil and administrative liabilities arising from different forms of pharmaceutical care ，and standardize the new responsibilities of pharmacists in pharmaceutical care. RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS The legal concept of pharmaceutical care has the function of judgement standard. Only such behaviors can belong to pharmacists ’liability under legal regulation，which are based on mutual agreements ，ensure the public medication safety and optimize patient treatment effect through the application of pharmaceutical expertise related to drug treatment. Under this definition ，the civil liability of pharmaceutical care needs to distinguish the professional degree of pharmaceutical care in different situations ，so as to establish a typed civil liability system and provide different levels of protection for patients ；regarding administrative liability ，it is necessary to improve the pharmaceutical regulatory system with the dual core of the Drug Administration Law and the Pharmacist Law from the perspective of liability integration.