Abstract
Patient counseling is a cornerstone of ethical pharmacy practice and high quality pharmaceutical care. Counseling promotes patient compliance with prescription regimens and prevents dangerous drug interactions and medication errors. Counseling also promotes informed consent and protects pharmacists against legal risks. However, economic, social, and technological changes in pharmacy practice often force community pharmacists to choose between their professional obligations to counsel patients and business objectives. State and federal legislatures have enacted laws that require pharmacists to counsel patients, but these laws have had mixed results. This essay argues that community pharmacy's patient counseling conundrum can be solved through additional moral education and moral persuasion, not through additional legal mandates.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 179-186 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of Business Ethics |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2000 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
-
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
Keywords
- Business objectives
- Community pharmacy
- Ethics
- Managed care
- Moral education
- Moral persuasion
- OBRA '90
- Patient counseling
Fingerprint
Dive into the research topics of 'The conflict between ethics and business in community pharmacy: What about patient counseling?'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.Cite this
- APA
- Standard
- Harvard
- Vancouver
- Author
- BIBTEX
- RIS