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Paying for Pharmaceutical Care

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This chapter aims to provide a summary of different approaches to the payment of pharmaceutical care that have been adopted in selected countries. Each of them is described in brief, with the ultimate goal of highlighting the pros and cons of each approach. The second part of the chapter elaborates on a possible solution to make pharmaceutical care not only a clinical activity which is essential to ensure the patient receives optimal therapy to attain better outcomes , but also to transform this practice into a profitable service. We believe this option is essential for pharmaceutical care to flourish worldwide.

The original version of this chapter was revised: The affiliation of editor, Professor Filipa Alves da Costa has been updated. The erratum to this chapter is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92576-9_41

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  • 02 November 2018

    Correction to: F. Alves da Costa et al. (eds.), The Pharmacist Guide to Implementing Pharmaceutical Care, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92576-9 The original version of the book was published with the affiliation “Ordem dos Farmacêuticos (Portuguese Pharmaceutical Society), Lisbon, Portugal” of the editor, Professor “Filipa Alves da Costa” in the frontmatter and in chapters 5, 14, 35, 37 and 38, which has now been changed to “Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz (IUEM), Monte da Caparica, Portugal”.

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  1. Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz (IUEM), Monte da Caparica, Portugal

    Filipa Alves da Costa

  2. Pharmaceutical Care Research Group, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Kurt E. Hersberger

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Correspondence to Filipa Alves da Costa .

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  1. Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz (IUEM), Monte da Caparica, Portugal

    Filipa Alves da Costa

  2. van Mil Consultancy, Zuidlaren, The Netherlands

    J. W. Foppe van Mil

  3. Universidad de San Martín de Porres, Lima, Peru

    Aldo Alvarez-Risco

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Alves da Costa, F., Hersberger, K.E. (2019). Paying for Pharmaceutical Care. In: Alves da Costa, F., van Mil, J., Alvarez-Risco, A. (eds) The Pharmacist Guide to Implementing Pharmaceutical Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92576-9_38

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