OBJECTIVES To implement and assess hospital-based pharmaceutical care services for patients with asthma. METHODS A prospective, randomized, controlled study was conducted in Shaab teaching hospital, Khartoum, Sudan. Patients were allocated randomly either in the intervention group (60) or control group (40) patients. The drug therapy of asthma for the patients in the intervention group was re...

The early years life-stage (1 year either side of childbirth) is an important period for preventive action focusing on optimizing nutritional health for mothers and babies. Community pharmacy is a much utilized, easily accessed setting for health promotion and exposure to the primary health care system. The literature suggests that there has been limited exploration of pharmacy utilization by m...

BACKGROUND cognitive pharmaceutical services (CPSs) encompass a variety of pharmacists' interventions to optimise pharmacotherapy. The clinical effectiveness of CPSs for aged patients remains controversial. OBJECTIVE to analyse and describe the evidence of the clinical effectiveness of CPSs in aged patients by means of performing a systematic review of systematic reviews. METHODS using the ...

Health litigation spurs many challenges in the management of pharmaceutical services. Performance of health managers and decisionmakers must be adjusted to new administrative and legal boundaries. Their actions must also be efficient in responding to ongoing lawsuits, as well as in avoiding additional litigation and in upholding principles and directives of the Brazilian Health System (SUS). Th...

BACKGROUND Current evidence supports the benefit of medicine-use review (MUR) for the safe and effective use of medicines. However, little is known about opinions of consumers regarding their preference for undertaking MUR, especially in the developing world, eg, in some Asian countries. We aimed to explore patients' opinions about potential MUR and other enhanced services provided by community...

As a pharmacy service giving pharmaceutical care at different levels of health care for elderly people, we needed a standardization procedure for recording and evaluating pharmacists' interventions. Our objective was to homogenize pharmacist interventions; to know physicians' acceptance of our recommendations, as well as the most prevalent drug related problems (DRP); and the impact of the phar...

OBJECTIVES To explore British community pharmacists' views on PAS, including professional responsibility, personal beliefs, changes in law and ethical guidance. DESIGN Postal questionnaire. SETTING Great Britain. SUBJECTS A random sample of 320 registered full-time community pharmacists. RESULTS The survey yielded a response rate of 56%. The results showed that 70% of pharmacists agreed...

The Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risk (COFEPRIS by its initials in Spanish) is the state body responsible for transversely regulating various sectors of the Mexican economy, among them health services and inputs. Both cases are related to the rational use of medicines. The pharmaceutical policy of the Mexican Government is to prevent health risks by strengthening the e...

BACKGROUND Medicines use related challenges such as inadequate adherence, high levels of antimicrobial resistance and preventable adverse drug reactions have underscored the need to incorporate pharmaceutical services to help achieve desired treatment outcomes, and protect patients from inappropriate use of medicines. This situation is further constrained by insufficient numbers of pharmaceutic...

Puskesmas is a first-level healthcare service facility that organizes health efforts prioritized promotive andpreventive actions. In executing its efforts, puskesmas must take actions according to standards,including in pharmaceutical services. It will be different when the pharmacy provided by nursesinstead of staffs. Following prevailing law Indonesia today, nurses’ authority incarrying out t...