Optimizing drug use

Optimizing drug use: optimizing drug use is an integral part of clinical pharmacy. Working on optimizing drug use involves achieving maximum benefits with minimal risks. Interventions that improve patients’ outcomes and reduce possible toxicities can be evaluated. Considering the era of “personalized medicine”, identifying groups of patients expected to not respond, or those who may have the highest response rates are important to develop practice guidelines that give highlights to best prescribing protocols. Identifying those with high risk to drug adverse events also help so that other therapeutic options can be tried.

Examples of department work within this research interest:

Kamel NA, Soliman MM, Abo-Zeid MA, Shaaban MI. Effect of Anti-Inflammatory and Antimicrobial Cosupplementations on Sepsis Prevention in Critically Ill Trauma Patients at High Risk for Sepsis. Frontiers in pharmacology. 2021 Nov 29:3285. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2021.792741

Warren RB, Marsden A, Tomenson B, Mason KJ, Soliman MM, Burden AD, Reynolds NJ, Stocken D, Emsley R, Griffiths CE, Smith C. Identifying demographic, social and clinical predictors of biologic therapy effectiveness in psoriasis: a multicentre longitudinal cohort study. The British Journal of Dermatology. 2019 May;180(5):1069. doi: 10.1111/bjd.16776