INTRODUCTION According to the World Health Organization (WHO), worldwide obesity (having a body mass index or BMI greater than or equal to 30) has more than doubled since 1980.1 In 2014, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight (BMI 25 to < 30) and of these adults, over 600 million were obese. Overweight and obesity are linked to more deaths than underweight. Globally t...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Spain has implemented several in-pharmacy HIV testing programmes performed by pharmacists as part of their everyday routine. We aim to assess the feasibility and the main outcomes of three programmes implemented in three Spanish regions with different sociological profiles and also different epidemiology for HIV. METHODS The characteristics of the 24151 people tested ...

A joint initiative of the Patient Services Section and the Drug and Therapeutics Information Service of the Pharmacy Department, Repatriation General Hospital, Daw Park, South Australia. The RGH Pharmacy E-Bulletin is distributed in electronic format on a weekly basis, and aims to present concise, factual information on issues of current interest in therapeutics, drug safety and cost-effective ...

Max D. Ray, PhaRM.D., M.S., L.h.D. (hon.), is Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Health Outcomes and Policy Research), College of Pharmacy, University of Tennessee, Memphis, and Dean Emeritus, College of Pharmacy, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA. BuRniS D. BReLanD, PhaRM.D., M.S., is Director of Pharmacy Services, Columbus Regional Healthcare System, Columbus, GA. Address c...

Background. Home infusion services are provided by a variety of organizations, including hospitals, community pharmacies, home health agencies, hospices, and specialized infusion companies. Patients receive care in non-inpatient settings, such as their homes and ambulatory infusion centers, or in alternative-site settings, such as skilled-nursing facilities. Home infusion pharmacies may provide...

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2008: 34(3) Background Pharmacies have always played an important role in sexual health service provision for both women and men, and in many ways they complement those available from other primary care and specialist services. These services may now embrace emergency hormonal contraception (EHC), chlamydia screening and treatment, and in 2008 oral contracep...

Background. Diabetes is an emerging chronic disease in developing countries. Its management in developing countries is mainly hospital/clinic based. The increasing diabetes burden in developing countries provides opportunities for community pharmacists to deliver a range of services. Since the management of diabetes requires the patient's own involvement, it is important to gain their views in ...

UNLABELLED The objective of this work is to study the possibilities of the tetraclass model for the evaluation of the changes in the consumer satisfaction from the provided pharmacy services during the time. METHODS Within the same 4 months period in 2004 and 2006 were questioned at approximately 10 pharmacy consumers per working day. Every consumer evaluated the 34 service elements on a 5 po...

A tuberculosis notification system was initiated which used several sources--the doctor, the diagnostic services of bacteriology, histopathology and radiology, and the pharmacy. The results of six months' notifications have shown that the pharmacy was by far the most complete source (74% of all new cases); doctors notified only 21% of all new cases. The combination of both doctors and the pharm...

Report of the 2010-2011 Professional Affairs Committee: Effective Partnerships to Implement Pharmacists’ Services in Team-Based, Patient-Centered Healthcare Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, Alex J. Adams, Anne L. Burns, Carolyn Ha, Michelle L. Hilaire, Donald E. Letendre, Douglas J. Scheckelhoff, Terry L. Schwinghammer, Andrew Traynor, David P. Zgarrick, and Lynette R. Bradley-Baker University of M...