Abstract

Clinical pharmacy services are firmly established in many countries. Based on the Best Practice of developed countries clinical pharmacy associated with reduced adverse drug events, medication errors, patients’ length of stay, mortality rates, and costs. A core element of clinical pharmacy is to influence rational prescribing and promote quality use of medicines. In the School of Health Sciences at the University of Georgia qualification work was conducted in 2019 under the Bachelor program of Healthcare Administration to identify barriers of development clinical pharmacy in Georgia. Various challenges were identified: Less knowledge in clinical subjects, less experience in patient counseling, respectively lack of clinically qualified pharmacists; poor pharmaceutical literacy among patients; less involvement in Public health programs, low salaries.