Adams Alex J, Adams Jennifer
Administrator, Idaho Division of Financial Management.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Idaho State University.
Innov Pharm. 2021 Mar 2;12(1). doi: 10.24926/iip.v12i1.3598. eCollection 2021.
Pharmacy has traditionally been a highly regulated profession. In a recent study, the state with the largest pharmacy regulatory word count had 6.7 times as many words as the state with the lowest word count. Given the wide variation in state pharmacy regulations, this paper seeks to spark discussion on how we can assess public safety outcomes in states based on the overall volume of pharmacy regulation with a focus on: 1) fitness to practice; 2) controlled substance outcomes; and 3) compounding safety. In examining these categories, existing data sources are limited and suboptimal, though formal disciplinary actions against pharmacy licensees are very infrequent. Thus, it seems preferable for states to have a regulatory framework that allows boards of pharmacy to deal with the rare public safety issues that occur, while not holding back the vast majority of pharmacists from practicing to the top of their education and training.
传统上，药学一直是一个受到高度监管的行业。在最近的一项研究中，药学监管字数最多的州的字数是字数最少的州的6.7倍。鉴于各州药学法规差异很大，本文旨在引发关于如何根据药学法规的总体数量来评估各州公共安全结果的讨论，重点关注：1）执业资格；2）管制药品结果；3）配制安全。在研究这些类别时，现有的数据来源有限且不理想，尽管针对持牌药剂师的正式纪律处分非常罕见。因此，各州最好有一个监管框架，允许药学委员会处理罕见的公共安全问题，同时不妨碍绝大多数药剂师充分发挥其教育和培训水平进行执业。
