Pharmacists' views toward the impact of pharmacogenomics on pharmacy practice in Malaysia / Mohamad Fikri Bakhtiar

Pharmacogenomics based pharmacy practice have been effectively accepted by many developed countries so that they can develop the personalized medicine and deliver excellence health care to the community (Bannur, Bahaman, Salleh, & Kek, 2014). Pharmacogenetics can be used to improve patient safety and drug efficacy (Newton, Britain, & others, 2008). Pharmacogenomics deals with heredity and the effect of drugs (Kalow, Meyer, & Tyndale, 2005). Pharmacogenomics is can give more powerful drugs, better and safer drugs the first time, and advanced screening for disease. Besides that it also can give better vaccines, improvements in the drug discovery and approval process as well as more accurate methods of determining appropriate drug dosages (T P, M, Jose, Chandran, & Zachariah, 2009).