TY - JOUR PY - 2014// TI - A psychiatric pharmacist in a liver clinic managing treated patients with chronic hepatitis C viral infection JO - Mental health clinician, The A1 - Park, S.H. SP - 266 EP - 270 VL - 4 IS - 6 N2 - A board-certified psychiatric pharmacist is an ideal clinician to manage medication needs for patients being treated for chronic hepatitis C virus infection. Underlying psychiatric symptoms should be managed before initiating medications such as interferons- therapeutic biologicals associated with causing psychiatric adverse events, including suicide. The role of a psychiatric pharmacist in a hepatitis C liver clinic highlights the value of a psychiatric pharmacist providing direct patient care and improving the quality of healthcare services in a subspecialty practice model. © 2014 Mental Health Clinician. All rights reserved.
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LA - en SN - 2168-9709 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.9740/mhc.n207200 ID - ref1 ER -