Acta Pol Pharm
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Many countries of the world including Poland, are taking actions for improving the role of the pharmacist as a health care professional. One of those is implementation of pharmaceutical care (PC), as a documented specialist medical service, which also includes pharmacist interventions, such as preparing Individual Medication Management System (IMMS), to enhance patient's adherence. Because of the chance to monitor the dosage and to detect and prevent drug problems occurrence, IMMS is thought to be an opportunity for individualized, effective and safe patient's pharmacotherapy. ⋯ Proposed dosing system also improved patient's care serving by family or carers in pharmacists' opinion (p < 0.00001). A majority of pharmacists (85.3%) indicated also that IMMS would have a positive influence on PC implementation in Poland (p < 0.00001) and 69.0% of them confirmed that this service should be refunded by the National Health Fund (p < 0.00001). According to the scale of non-compliance, implementation of IMMS as a part of PC can be a chance both for patients and their physicians to increase the safety and effectiveness of therapy and for pharmacists, who are intended to highlight their role as a part of health care system.