Systems designed to aid and document pharmaceutical care activities, interventions, and their outcomes is integral to an effective modern pharmacy operation. CPS systems utilize structured categories, elements, outcomes, and functionality. This improves understanding of need and adds an educational component.
Practitioners learn as they perform the vital documentation functions.
This structure allows trending of interventions and can help target educational topics, identify systems deficiencies or opportunities, and provide evidence of unsuspected interactions. Ultimately, careful dissemination and use of information and implementation of adjustments resulting from the documentation of pharmacists' interventions can improve patient outcomes and significantly reduce costs. CPS utilized both manual and automated systems to achieve this most important aspect of pharmaceutical care.