The potential contribution of clinical pharmacists to quality use of medicines in geriatric patients in Vietnam

The findings of this thesis shows that pharmacists are still able to effectively improve the quality use of medicines in Vietnam through strategically implemented clinical pharmacy activities, despite the lack of human resources and many other barriers in implementation. Pharmacists can achieve this with minimum disruption to the routine clinical workflow and resource requirement, but also make a significant contribution to improving the quality of drug prescribing in high-risk patients. This will provide an example for the pharmacy profession in other jurisdictions where human and other resources are highly constrained, like Vietnam.