OBJECTIVE To review the international body of literature from 2010 to 2015 concerning methods of economic evaluations used in hospital- and community-based studies of pharmacy services in publicly funded health systems worldwide, their clinical outcomes, and economic effectiveness. DATA SOURCES The literature search was undertaken between May 2, 2015, and September 4, 2015. Keywords included ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the public's attitudes towards the community pharmacist's role in Qatar, to investigate the public's use of community pharmacy, and to determine the public's views of and satisfaction with community pharmacy services currently provided in Qatar. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three community pharmacies in Qatar were randomly selected as study sites. Patients 16 years of age and ov...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of student pharmacists delivering medication therapy management (MTM) services during an elective advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE). METHODS Student pharmacists provided MTM services at community pharmacy APPE sites, documented their recommendations, and then made follow-up telephone calls to patients to determine the impact of the MTM provided. St...

INTRODUCTION Community Health Strategy (CHS) is a new Primary Health Care (PHC) model in Kenya, designed to provide PHC services in Kenya. In 2011, CHS was initiated in Mwingi district as one of the components of APHIA plus kamili program. The objectives of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of the CHS in providing MCH services in Mwingi district and to establish the factors influencing ...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to provide a critical and comprehensive overview of the published peer-reviewed evidence relating to community pharmacy-based activity in the reduction of risk behaviours and risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD). METHOD Electronic databases were searched from 1 January 1990 to 1 February 2001. Hand searches for the same period were undertaken of sp...

Recently, many web-log (blog) hosting services have begun in Japan. Blog users have continued to multiply, producing new Internet communities. This study extracts and analyzes blog communities based on the blog link structure. Blog networks can be constructed as follows: a blog (all entries of one blog) is considered as a node. A link between two blogs is considered as an edge. We attempt two e...

The Infectious Diseases Society of Taiwan (IDST) established and issued the first version of “Guidelines on Antimicrobial Therapy of Pneumonia in Taiwan” in December 1999. A revised version was issued in conjunction with the Taiwan Society of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine in 2001. With the advances in many areas of medicine and revisions in the American “Update of Practice Guidelines for the ...

Patient care in a community is becoming critical due to change in the impact of diseases on health. The provision of pharmaceutical care in a community will bring in positive changes in health care delivery. However, the pharmacist in developing countries has remained obscure in direct healthcare of the patient. The main aim of this article is to reinforce the concept that there is a need to st...

UNLABELLED Community pharmacists are well placed to deliver adherence support services as well as other pharmaceutical services to patients. They are often the last point of contact with patients collecting medicines in the healthcare chain, and they tend to be visited by patients on a regular basis to collect prescription medicines. They have the opportunity to reinforce information already re...