The Dutch model for clinical pharmacology: collaboration between physician- and pharmacist--clinical pharmacologists.

摘要

There are serious concerns about the decline of the specialty of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics in the UK and other Western European countries and the number of specialized physicians in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics , In addition, a heated debate is ongoing whether clinical pharmacology is exclusively a medical discipline or also open to other professionals . There is no disagreement about the pivotal role of clinical pharmacologists in ensuring rational use of drugs, in translating phaVmacological concepts from the bench to the clinic, in clinical drug development, or in teaching the discipline to medical students. In our view clinical pharmacology is too important to be left exclusively to physician-clinical pharmacologists, for which there are a number pf arguments.