Purpose: In an era of escalating healthcare costs and ageing population, there is a need for costeffective measures. This study was aimed to investigate the knowledge, perception and attitude of community pharmacists towards generic medicines. Methods: A qualitative methodology was adopted. Snowball sampling technique was used to identify eight community pharmacists. Semi-structured interviews ...

RATIONALE The pharmacist charged with the responsibility of drug administration and counseling should have the basic knowledge and skills necessary to demonstrate the use of metered dose inhalers (MDIs) to asthma patients for the maximization of treatment outcomes. OBJECTIVE This study was designed to evaluate the community pharmacists' knowledge of the appropriate use of MDIs in Anambra Stat...

OBJECTIVES To explore the nurses' expectations and experience about pharmacists in private sector hospitals of Karachi, Pakistan. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted from June to September 2012 in five private sector hospitals of Karachi, Pakistan. A convenient sample of nurses (n=377) were enrolled in this study. Data was obtained through a previously validated questionnaire. Respo...

pharmacists are members of the healthcare teams that provide valuable services to society. their incentive to deliver such services is influenced by remuneration methods. in this study, we aimed to review the remuneration models for pharmacists’ services and the factors affecting the profitability of pharmacies in some selected countries, including france, ireland, canada and turkey, and compar...

The inclusion of pharmacies in health centres has created opportunities for general practitioners to become better acquainted with the potential contribution of pharmacists to health care. A qualitative study has been made to explore the extent to which this potential has been realized. Ten health centres with an integral pharmacy were selected, one from each of the regional health authorities ...

In Japan, pharmacists' activities for the most part consist of dispensing although in some University Hospitals they are directly involved in patient care. In the United States, pharmacists' activities have evolved over forty years in providing drug therapy and have now expanded to improvement in the patient's quality of life. In addition, a six-year pharmacy education program based on patient ...

The aim of the study was to assess Polish community pharmacists’ knowledge about the health consequences of smoking and the abilities they need in professional advice-giving during the smoking cessation process. Therefore, we use a self-answered questionnaire to assess pharmacists’ knowledge about the health consequences of smoking and his/her abilities in NRT advice-giving. In total, the pharm...

reporting rate is mainly due to reporting by pharmacists working in the public sector. Adverse drug reaction reports generated by pharmacists increased from 726 (28.5%) in 2006 to 3357 (57.4%) in 200911. On the other hand, the contribution by physicians towards ADR reporting was 22.9% in 200911. The increase in the number of reports submitted by pharmacists could be a reflection of the increase...

PURPOSE As pharmacists play an important role in managing antiepileptic drug (AED) therapy, they should be aware of different aspects of the treatment. Our aim was to evaluate pharmacists' knowledge of the pharmacological treatment of epilepsy, and their recommendations under hypothetical situations, through a written questionnaire. METHODS The questionnaire included 22 questions divided into...

In some settings, steps are being taken to more fully integrate pharmacists in primary health care as a means of improving the public’s health and reducing drug-related iatrogenesis. Yet, evidence of improvement in health outcomes from pharmacists’ inputs is mixed; the diversity of research approaches and methodologies makes it difficult to reach an overall conclusion about it. A detailed revie...