OBJECTIVES To assess Texas pharmacists' knowledge of adverse drug event (ADE) reporting to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and to determine demographic and practice characteristics associated with this knowledge. DESIGN Cross-sectional descriptive study. SETTING Austin, TX, in June and July 2009. PARTICIPANTS 377 pharmacists practicing in hospital and community settings. INTERVEN...

Background: Community Pharmacists are one of healthcare professionals who can play an important role in the reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) due to the advantageous position in terms of direct contact with the patients and specialization in medicine. Nevertheless, literatures indicated that ADRs under-reporting are common among community pharmacists in both developed and developing co...

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...

W idespread, effective identification and management of uncontrolled hypertension remains elusive, undermining our ability to reduce the impact of stroke and heart disease. The statistics are widely appreciated: ≈30% of North Americans have hypertension, and almost half of this hyper-tension is uncontrolled. Nearly 1000 people a day die of complications attributed to hypertension, and direct an...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Lack of familiarity with proper medication disposal options among patients can lead to personal and environmental safety concerns, besides signalling non-adherence. Given that community pharmacists are in a position to educate patients, this study assessed community pharmacists' knowledge on medication disposal and examined the utility of the theory of planned beh...

OBJECTIVE To examine attitudes towards a new collaborative pharmacy-based model of care for management of warfarin treatment in the community. As background to the study, the New Zealand health authorities are encouraging greater clinical involvement of community pharmacists. METHODS Fifteen community pharmacies in New Zealand took part in a community pharmacist-led anticoagulation management...

BACKGROUND While spontaneous reporting (SR) is one of the important public health activities for community pharmacists to guard patients' safety, very few studies examined educational activities and its effects on knowledge about the SR system in Korea. This study described the association between knowledge of SR and educational activities targeting community pharmacists in Korea. METHODS Sel...

BACKGROUND Following the enactment of legislation in June 2013, generic substitution and reference pricing of medicines has been introduced, for the first time, in Ireland. This novel study is the first assessment of the perceptions of community pharmacists in Ireland towards generic medicines completed in the period immediately prior to the introduction of generic substitution and reference pr...

OBJECTIVE To determine knowledge of folic acid use for neural tube defect (NTD) prevention and counseling practices among community pharmacists registered in Ohio. METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed on a random sample (n=500) of community pharmacists registered with the Ohio Board of Pharmacy and practicing in Ohio. A survey previously used by researchers to assess folic acid knowl...

OBJECTIVES To compare prevalence and types of dispensing errors and pharmacists' labelling enhancements, for prescriptions transmitted electronically versus paper prescriptions. DESIGN Naturalistic stepped wedge study. SETTING 15 English community pharmacies. INTERVENTION Electronic transmission of prescriptions between prescriber and pharmacy. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Prevalence of labell...