OBJECTIVES Community or retail pharmacies are regarded as one of the most common sources of health services throughout the world. In South Africa, community pharmacies have been providing some primary health care services to clients who could afford to pay. These services included screening, family planning, and emergency care for minor ailments. With the introduction of the new qualification, ...

This study examined the predictive power of six independent variables on pharmacy students’ academic performance across demographic variables. The study also developed a profile of pharmacy students who were more likely to have academic success and difficulty. A total of 437 pharmacy students from all three pharmacy schools in Texas participated in this study. Results showed that prepharmacy GP...

BACKGROUND When compared to systemic administration, if used correctly inhalers deliver a smaller enough percent of the drug right to the site of action in the lungs, with a faster onset of effect and with reduced systemic availability that minimizes adverse effects. However, the health professionals' and patients' use of metered dose inhaler is poor. OBJECTIVE This study was aimed to explore...

OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to obtain pilot data concerning the job satisfaction of Tucson area retail chain setting and to identify the facets of community practice that have the greatest contribution to job satisfaction. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of chain pharmacists in the Tucson area. The Warr-Cook-Wall questionnaire of job satisfaction was used to evaluate ...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe integration of a community-based patient care service development model, Partner for Promotion (PFP), within five community pharmacy residency programs (CPRPs) across the United States and provide insights and examples of methods for optimizing community pharmacy resident experiences, developing new patient care services, and achieving residency...

Labor law implementation has a basic role in increasing employment stability, decreasing turnover, and managing the employer-employee relation, which increases the productivity levels in any organization. In this paper, the importance of implementing the labor law in the Lebanese pharmaceutical sector, in the two main divisions, sales (medical representative) and community pharmacies is discuss...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the internal reliability, factor structure and construct validity of the Pharmacy Safety Climate Questionnaire (PSCQ) when applied to a pan-European sample of community pharmacies. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey design was used. SETTING Community pharmacies in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal and Great Britain. PARTICIPANTS A total of 4105 members of the ...

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Many private and public health insurance plans increasingly encourage their beneficiaries—either through mandates or incentives—to fill prescriptions for longterm chronic conditions through a mail order pharmacy or at a community-based or mail order specialty pharmacy designated by the pharmacy benefit manager. Approximately 90% of employers as of May 2011 and 25 state acquired immune deficienc...

OBJECTIVE To compare the costs of prescriptions dispensed through mail service and community pharmacies to quantify the comparative costs of the two types of pharmacies. DESIGN Modeling study based on 1-year of claims data from a cohort of patients. SETTING A health plan in the northeastern United States. PATIENTS Approximately 100,000 members of the health plan. INTERVENTION The plan u...