Provision of Clinical Preventive Services by Community Pharmacists

Provision of Clinical Preventive Services by Community Pharmacists

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...

Should Clinical Services Provided by Pharmacists be Compensated?

Should Clinical Services Provided by Pharmacists be Compensated?

Increasing the provision of preventive care by community healthcare services: a stepped wedge implementation trial

BACKGROUND Although clinical guidelines recommend the provision of care to reduce client chronic disease risk behaviours, such care is provided sub-optimally by primary healthcare providers. A study was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of an intervention in increasing community-based clinician implementation of multiple elements of recommended preventive care for four risk behaviours. ...

Practice and Barriers towards Provision of Health Promotion Services among Community Pharmacists in Gondar, Northwest Ethiopia

BACKGROUND Health promotion is now becoming an integral part of community pharmacy practice worldwide. OBJECTIVES This study was intended to determine the level of involvement of community pharmacists in providing health promotion service and to identify the barriers to the practice. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on 48 community pharmacists working in Gondar town, Northwest ...