Making Meaningful Improvements in Pharmacotherapy and Medication Management for Children and Youth-A Modest Proposal

Richard H Parrish II; Johannes van den Anker; Sandra Benavides

doi:10.3390/children6100111

Making Meaningful Improvements in Pharmacotherapy and Medication Management for Children and Youth-A Modest Proposal

Children (Basel). 2019 Oct 9;6(10):111. doi: 10.3390/children6100111.

Authors

Richard H Parrish II^{1

2}, Johannes van den Anker^{3

4

5}, Sandra Benavides⁶

Affiliations

¹ St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, 160 E. Erie Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19134, USA. richardhenryparrish2@gmail.com.
² Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Pharmacy, Richmond, VA 23298, USA. richardhenryparrish2@gmail.com.
³ Universitäts-Kinderspital beider Basel (UKBB), Spitalstrasse 33, CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland.
⁴ Children's National Health System, 111 Michigan Avenue, Washington, DC 20010, USA.
⁵ Erasmus Medical Center-Sophia Children's Hospital, s-Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁶ PRIME Education, Miami, FL 33169, USA.

Abstract

The Special Issue, "Development of a National Pediatric Pharmacotherapy Collaborative Practice Network," has illuminated the vital global need for better care coordination and interprofessional collaboration in pharmacotherapy and medication management of children with medical complexity and special healthcare needs (CSHCN-CMC) [...].

Keywords: children; clinical pharmacy; medical complexity; medication management; pediatrics; youth.

Publication types

Editorial