Clinical Pharmacy Services (CPS) is provided by clinical pharmacists as members of the healthcare team. This beneficial for hospital care. Therefore, knowing nurses' perception CPS can determine quality and help in its improvement. study aims to pharmacy services at Universitas Sumatera Utara hospital, Medan, Indonesia. a descriptive that used Importance–Performance Analysis (IPA) method. The d...

BACKGROUND The drug-dispensing channel is a scarcely explored determinant of medication adherence, which is considered as a key indicator for the quality of care among patients with diabetes mellitus. In this study, we investigated the difference in adherence between diabetes patients who obtained their medication directly from a prescribing physician (physician dispensing [PD]) or via a pharma...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to assess the performance of community pharmacist towards antidiabetic and antiasthma prescriptions, and also to assess the lack of information provided by community pharmacists regarding patient counseling and missing data, using a simulated patient technique. METHODS A prescription including antidiabetic and antiasthma drugs was used by simulated pat...

As there is no evidence of previous studies on evaluating the level of job satisfaction and the major causes of dissatisfaction among the pharmacists in Iran, this study was designed. This study is a cross-sectional descriptive analysis of pharmacists practicing in Tehran private-sector pharmacies. We selected a stratified random sampling using number of prescriptions as a variable for stratifi...

BACKGROUND Technologies have been developed over the past 20 years to automate the stages of drug distribution in hospitals, including ordering, dispensing, delivery, and administration of medications, in attempts to decrease medication error rates. Decentralized automated dispensing devices (ADDs) represent one such technology that is being adopted by hospitals across Canada, but the touted be...

BACKGROUND District and sub-district pharmacist positions were created during health sector reform in South Africa. High prevalence of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and increasing chronic non-communicable diseases have drawn attention to their pivotal roles in improving accessibility and appropriate use of medicines at the primary level. This research describes new roles and related competencies of di...

This study investigates the role of retail pharmacy ownership in opioid epidemic. Using data prescription orders, we show that compared with chain pharmacies, independent pharmacies dispense 39.1 percent more opioids and 60.5 OxyContin. After an becomes a pharmacy, dispensing decreases. OxyContin reformulation, which reduced nonmedical demand but not legitimate medical demand, at least one-thir...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to investigate the management of drug therapy alerts on safe use of antibiotics in elderly patients with (potential) renal impairment and the contribution of optional creatinine point of care testing (PoCT) in community pharmacy practice. METHODS Community pharmacists used a clinical decision support system (CDSS) for seven antibiotics. Alerts were generated during presc...

OBJECTIVE To describe and evaluate drug errors and related clinical pharmacist interventions. DESIGN Cross-sectional observational study with an online data collection form. SETTING American College of Clinical Pharmacy practice-based research network (ACCP PBRN). PARTICIPANTS A total of 62 clinical pharmacists from the ACCP PBRN who provided direct patient care in the inpatient and outpa...

A public health clinic was established to provide antiviral prophylaxis to school contacts during the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza outbreak in NSW, Australia. Children (n = 74) and staff (n = 9) were provided with antiviral (oseltamivir) prophylaxis following exposure to a confirmed case of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza. The success of the clinic included attention to infection control and q...