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...

background awareness of pharmacists about counterfeit drugs is necessary for health improvement in community. the purpose of the present study is to assess the knowledge and measure the professional attitude and practice of iranian pharmacist about counterfeit drugs. in august 2008, a knowledge, attitude and practice (kap) study was performed in a national sample of 794 pharmacists who particip...

OBJECTIVES The Nigerian health sector battles with control of infectious diseases and emerging non-communicable diseases. Number of healthcare personnel involved in public health programs need to be boosted to contain the health challenges of the country. Therefore, it is important to assess whether community pharmacists in Nigeria could be engaged in the promotion and delivery of various publi...

Community pharmacists are highly accessible health care professionals, providing opportunities for partnerships with other health care and public health professionals to expand the population's access to clinical preventive services. To document examples of the community pharmacist's role in providing clinical preventive services to the general population, we conducted PubMed searches using the...

BACKGROUND The National Health Service (NHS) intends to introduce a system of electronic transfer of prescription-related information between general practitioners (GPs) and community pharmacies. The NHS Plan describes how this will be achieved. AIM To gather opinions of patients, GPs, and community pharmacists on the development of a system of electronic transfer of prescription-related info...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) impacts millions of individuals worldwide. Since no cure is currently available, acetylcholinesterase inhibitors are symptomatic therapy. This study assessed community pharmacists' knowledge regarding donepezil adverse effects (AEs) and self-care recommendations for insomnia management for persons with AD treated with rivastigmine. This is a cross-sectional, standardize...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have shown that pharmacists have a role in addressing antidepressant nonadherence. However, few studies have explored community pharmacists' actual counseling practices in response to antidepressant adherence-related issues at various phases of treatment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate counseling practices of community pharmacists in response to antidepressa...

Information from pharmacists may affect breastfeeding womens' decisions and choice of therapy. Community pharmacies remain one of the main sources of herbal medicines in Australia. In this study, we aimed to explore the perspectives of breastfeeding women on pharmacists' role and whether there is potential for role expansion, as well as the facilitators and barriers in meeting their healthcare-...

Resistance to antibiotics is a worldwide concern and community pharmacies can play a strategic role in controlling this issue through rationalizing antibiotic consumption. Considering that dispensing any type of antibiotics without a prescription is prohibited in according to Iran’s regulations, this study was conducted to quantify the rate of antibiotic dispensing without a prescription by pha...