Pharmacy practice

Pharmacy practice is the discipline of pharmacy which involves developing the professional roles of pharmacists.

Areas of pharmacy practice include:
 * Disease-state management
 * Clinical interventions (refusal to dispense a drug, recommendation to change and/or add a drug to a patient's pharmacotherapy, dosage adjustments, etc.)
 * Professional development
 * Pharmaceutical care
 * Extemporaneous pharmaceutical compounding
 * Communication skills
 * Health psychology
 * Patient care
 * Drug abuse prevention
 * Prevention of drug interactions, including drug-drug interactions or drug-food interactions
 * Prevention (or minimization) of adverse events
 * Incompatibility
 * Drug discovery and evaluation
 * Detect pharmacotherapy-related problems, such as:
 * The patient is taking a drug which he/she does not need.
 * The patient is taking a drug for a specific disease, other than one afflicting the patient.
 * The patient needs a drug for a specific disease, but is not receiving it.
 * The patient is taking a drug underdose.
 * The patient is taking a drug overdose.
 * The patient is having an adverse effect to a specific drug.
 * The patient is suffering from a drug interaction.