Community pharmacists are increasingly supervising treatments

General practitioners and community pharmacists: times they are a-changing.

Cardiovascular care in an increasingly diverse community.

Cardiovascular care in an increasingly diverse community represents a distinct challenge for cardiovascular medicine, the following cases illustrate these challenges. Case Presentation: A 66-year-old black woman arrives at her local emergency department in the southern United States. She works as a full-time secretary and has a history of poorly controlled hypertension despite several attempts ...

Barriers between community pharmacists and GPs.

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Agent Support for Patients and Community Pharmacists

This research explores agent technology to support the information needs of patients and community pharmacists toward a beneficial outcome for the patient. As patients make more use of over the counter (OTC) medications to manage their own conditions, they must achieve effective communication in dealings with community pharmacists to avoid drug interactions and for guidance to seek consultation...

Hospital and Community Pharmacists’ Perceptions of Which Competences Are Important for Their Practice

The objective of the PHAR-QA (Quality assurance in European pharmacy education and training) project was to investigate how competence-based learning could be applied to a healthcare, sectoral profession such as pharmacy. This is the first study on evaluation of competences from the pharmacists' perspective using an improved Delphi method with a large number of respondents from all over Europe....