OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to identify the common problems of medicine use in Oman in order to improve the appropriate use of medicines. METHODS A cross-sectional, pilot-tested questionnaire was administered to 6,675 Omani patients or their carers on exit from primary health care centres. RESULTS 66% of respondents visited multiple facilities on the same date for the same co...

Efficient and effective operations of supply chains have been à challenging task for practitioners. Management of a supply chain in reverse direction, referred to as reverse logistics, becomes more challenging, particularly, in the context of supply chains of perishable products. Disposal of the unused medicines, if not handled properly, may be harmful for the living beings in the system. Moreo...

According to the Basel Convention (1998), pharmaceutical waste is from medical care in hospitals, centers and clinics, production preparation of products, pharmaceuticals, drugs medicines, wastes production, formulation use biocides phytopharmaceuticals. They belong so-called Yellow List, are all, without exception, regarded hazardous. A review results studies on water bodies (rivers lakes) Rus...

BackgroundIn developing countries like Ethiopia one-third of health care expenditure is for medications. However, due to different reasons, patients may not use all the dispensed Thus, present study aimed assess Causes and cost unused medications at inpatient setting University Gondar Compressive Specialized Hospital.MethodsA hospital-based cross-sectional was conducted over two months Hospital...

Modern enterprises critically depend on IT. However, enterprise IT environments are complex and poorly documented. As a result, various IT components are forgotten and unused. Recent estimates show that 30% of servers in datacenters are unused on average. Elimination of unused servers (physical and virtual) and software instances decreases costs, electricity consumption, risks of problems causi...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on the management of medicines at public health centres in Indonesia. Travel restrictions and shortages certain have put pharmacists difficult situations made ensuring uninterrupted supply to patients more challenging. Objective: This study aims identify Indonesian centres, highlight pharmacist’s resilience community practice. Method: Four foc...

With the increase in environmental awareness, competitions and government policies, implementation of green supply chain management activities to sustain production and conserve resources is becoming more necessary for different organizations. However, it is difficult to successfully implement green supply chain (GSC) activities because of the risks involved. These risks alongside their resourc...