A drugstore is an establishment of interest in health, from which medication is dispensed, namely the therapeutic technology most broadly used in the practice of medicine. The scope of this study is to describe and analyze the sanitary surveillance of drugstores. Based on the theory of working processes in healthcare, a case study was conducted on the sanitary surveillance of drugstores in Salv...

OBJECTIVE To estimate changes since 1976 in the proportion of San Francisco pharmacies that sell cigarettes and to characterise the advertising of cigarettes and the merchandising of non-prescription nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products in these retail establishments. METHODS AND SETTING 100 randomly selected San Francisco pharmacies were visited in 2003. Pharmacies were characterised ...

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to unveil the reasons that have led to the recent deterioration of the economic situation of pharmacies in Portugal, using as the metric of analysis the characteristics in the management of these units. Methodology: The paper opted for a comparison of economic indicators adopted by pharmacies which hold the official SME Excellence distinction and the pharmacies...

conclusions geographic accessibility of pharmacies at night and on holidays has to be addressed by provincial health policymakers. materials and methods the analysis was based on straight-line distance measurements. we considered 150, 300, 450, 600, and 750 m for pedestrians, and 1, 2, and 3 km for driving accessibility as the acceptable distances. we calculated the number and percentage of hou...

BACKGROUND As a result of the previous part of this trial, many patients with cardiovascular disease were expected to receive a statin for the first time. In order to provide these patients with comprehensive information on statins, as recommended by professional guidance, education at first and second dispensing of statins had to be implemented. This study was designed to assess the effectiven...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to explore the perceptions of stakeholders on a national pilot of a new service, the 'Choose Pharmacy' Common Ailments Service (CAS) in Wales. METHODS Methods used were semi-structured interviews with stakeholders involved in development and delivery of the CAS. Snowball sampling was employed and invites were extended to eight of 13 pharmacies offeri...

OBJECTIVES To compare patients' expectations and experiences at pharmacies offering traditional APPE learning opportunities with those offering enhanced APPEs that incorporate pharmaceutical care activities. METHODS A survey of anchored measures of patient satisfaction was conducted in 2 groups of APPE- affiliated community pharmacies: those participating in an enhanced APPE model versus thos...

background: health system pharmacies, like other health care professional, practice under a number of mandated stan­dards. basic concepts of quality assurance (qa) standards should be applied to hospital pharmacy practice. the survey re­ported here is to assess qa system implementation and its standard indicators observation in tehran university of medical sci­ences (tums) hospitals' pharmacies...

OBJECTIVES To assess Croatian community pharmacists' patient care competencies using the General Level Framework (GLF). METHODS The competencies of 100 community pharmacists working in 38 community pharmacies were evaluated using an adapted version of the GLF. RESULTS Pharmacists demonstrated the best performance in the competency areas drug specific issues and provision of drug products; t...