[Pharmaceutical care program in HIV patients under antiretroviral treatment: methodology and documentation].
Most hospital pharmacy services in Spain have increased pharmaceutical care activities for HIV-patients under antiretroviral therapy during last years. So, it is necessary the establishment of work methods to secure the best quality of care. The pharmacy service of the general hospital of Castellón has developed a global pharmaceutical care program for these patients characterized by the systematic and individualized strategy or basic pharmaceutical care record which can be completed with additional proceedings. The basic record includes complete drug therapy registry, clinical evolution data and detection of drug related problems (DRP), evaluation and promotion of patient adherence, individualized counselling and nutritional evaluation. Additional proceedings include exhaustive DRP monitoring, additional patient adherence to treatments measurements, SOAP methodology, quality of life and perceived patient satisfaction. Our purpose integrate patient status with pharmaceutical care provided and the expected or obtained outcomes, either clinical or economic as well as activity outcomes, quality of life and satisfaction related results. The main characteristics of the purposed methodology are: clinical orientation, it permits the registry and the establishment of a systematic work methodology, is designed as a cross structure and variables are coded. According to our experience, our model can be considered useful in clinical practice and could be applied in different hospital outpatient units.