# COMAR Title 10 — Maryland Department of Health

## Subtitle 34 — Board of Pharmacy

### Chapter 03 — Institutional Pharmacy

#### Regulation .16 Pharmaceutical Care Functions of the Pharmacist.

*COMAR 10.34.03.16*

The pharmacist shall be available as necessary to provide pharmaceutical care to individual patients including, but not limited to:

A. Participating in decisions about medication use for patients including decisions not to use medication therapy as well as judgments about:

  (1) Medication selection;

  (2) Dosages;

  (3) Routes and methods of administration;

  (4) Medication therapy monitoring; and

  (5) The provision of medication-related information and counseling to individual patients;

B. Cooperating directly with health care professionals and the patient in designing, implementing, and monitoring a therapeutic outcome.

C. Providing care directly to the patient to improve a patient’s quality of life through achieving definite and predefined, medication-related therapeutic outcomes such as:

  (1) Curing the disease;

  (2) Eliminating or reducing a symptomatology;

  (3) Arresting or slowing a disease process;

  (4) Preventing a disease or symptomatology; and

  (5) Improving patient’s quality of life.

D. Identifying potential and actual medication-related problems, resolving actual medication-related problems, and preventing potential medication-related problems caused by:

  (1) Untreated indications;

  (2) Improper drug selection;

  (3) Sub-therapeutic dosage;

  (4) Failure to received medication;

  (5) Over dosage;

  (6) Adverse drug reactions;

  (7) Drug interactions, including drug-drug, drug-food, drug-laboratory test interactions; and

  (8) Medication use without appropriate indication.