Supporting frontline clinicians in the time of the pandemic: Rapid response pharmacology team.

Keywords: drug information; evidence-based medicine; infectious diseases; medication safety; pharmacotherapy EN drug information evidence-based medicine infectious diseases medication safety pharmacotherapy 725 729 5 03/05/21 20210301 NES 210301 INTRODUCTION Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a long range of medications have been tried in the fight against the novel coronavirus: antivirals, antimalarial drugs, antibiotics, steroids, and numerous biologicals. Drug information, infectious diseases, medication safety, pharmacotherapy, evidence-based medicine Hence, the clinical pharmacologists are necessitated to deal with every aspect of rational, safe, and effective medication use alone.1 In Russia, for over 500 000 medical doctors, there are about 800 clinical pharmacologists, who are often overloaded with clinical consultations, assessing and reporting adverse drug events, and advising the hospital medication committees. [Extracted from the article]