OBJECTIVE The objective of this narrative review was to identify and describe the current policy, education and research related to community pharmacy and medication adherence in England. METHODS Medline, Embase, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts and Pharmline were used to search for relevant research articles. Current policy documents were identified via the websites of the Department o...

OBJECTIVE To describe the education, research, practice, and policy related to pharmacist interventions to improve medication adherence in community settings in the United States. METHODS Authors used MEDLINE and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (since 1990) to identify community and ambulatory pharmacy intervention studies which aimed to improve medication adherence. The authors also s...

1Department of Health, Campus Teresina Central, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Piauí, Teresina, PI, Brazil, 2Department of Pharmacy, State University of Paraíba, Campina Grande, PB, Brazil, 3College of Pharmacy, Campus Minister Petronio Portela, Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, PI, Brazil, 4Laboratory of Experimental Neurochemistry Research, Federal University o...

www.pharmacypractice.org (ISSN: 1886-3655) 157 ABSTRACT Objective: The opinion about pharmacy services was studied using an instrument which measured satisfaction with pharmacy services. The main focus of the instrument was to assess patients’ opinion and expectation of the present pharmacy services. Method: The instrument contained 20 items, which were grouped based on their similarity into ei...

INTRODUCTION The pharmacists played an important role in the development of biochemistry as applied chemistry in Serbia. What is more, the first seven state chemists in Serbia were pharmacists. State chemists performed the chemical-toxicological analysis as well as some medical and biochemical ones. When it comes to the education of medical biochemists as health workers, the period after the be...

OBJECTIVES To critically discuss the need for pharmacists to underpin their consultations with appropriate 'clinical empathy' as part of effective medicines optimisation. METHODS Use of literature around empathy, consultation and pharmacy practice to develop a case for greater clinical empathy in pharmacy consultations. KEY FINDINGS Clinical empathy is defined from the literature and applie...

Bruce Lambert (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992) is Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Administration and Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This project was partially supported by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy’s Grant Program for New Investigators, a program sponsored by the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund ...

PURPOSE The development and implementation of a systemwide specialty pharmacy program in an academic healthcare system are described. SUMMARY Although the system's pharmacy department had developed specialty pharmacy services for patients with certain conditions, it was necessary to expand and standardize those services to meet the needs of all specialty clinics because (1) many of the clinic...

* C.L.Baid Metha Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education & Research, Thoraipakkam, Chennia-600097, Tamilnadu, India. # Department of Pharmacology, C.L.Baid Metha College of Pharmacy, Thoraipakkam, Chennia-600097, Tamilnadu, India. $ Department of Pharmaceutical chemistry, C.L.Baid Metha College of Pharmacy, Thoraipakkam, Chennia-600097, Tamilnadu, India. ^SASTRA University, Shanmugha Arts, Scie...

since late 1960s, pharmacists in the usa and england have started a professional movement towards a more efficient presence in clinical wards of hospitals. a similar movement has started in developed european countries during the past decade. pharmacists are convinced of the need for them to play their role as drug consultants and pharmacotherapy advisers to make decisions on drug therapy probl...