Drug information (DI) services is an essential resource for pharmacists to provide counseling to patients and guide appropriate medication use. We devised a DI practical training course that incorporated an inquiry-based practical training program and evaluated its effectiveness. A total of 91 fifth-year students in Pharmaceutical Sciences at Fukuoka University took part in the following DI ses...

BACKGROUND Medical literature has demonstrated that referral hospitals often receive inadequate information about the care and medications their patients received from referring hospitals. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess the completeness of referral letters, especially the medication history, for patient presenting at the children emergency room of a teaching hospital in Lagos, Nigeria. ...

INTRODUCTION Drug-related problems (DRPs) are common in the elderly, leading to suboptimal therapy, hospitalisations and increased mortality. The integrated medicines management (IMM) model is a multifactorial interdisciplinary methodology aiming to optimise individual medication therapy throughout the hospital stay. IMM has been shown to reduce readmissions and drug-related hospital readmissio...

background: while the use of herbal medicines is common in tehran, there is scant data regarding various aspects of the use of such medicines during pregnancy. objective: the frequency of the use of herbal medicines in a group of pregnant women in tehran and their attitude to the use of such medicines were evaluated. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 600 pregnant women were studied. a res...

OBJECTIVE To explore the current use of conventional and complementary medicines in Australians aged ≥ 50 years. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Cross-sectional postal survey sent to a random sample of 4500 Australians aged ≥ 50 years between June 2009 and February 2010. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Prevalence of medicines use, reasons for medicines use and sources of medicines. RESULTS Respons...

conclusions according to the results, there was a direct correlation between access to physical space in ed and waiting time. in addition, improving the physical access did not necessarily result in shorter waiting time. therefore, to improve triage process, improvement of waiting time indices, and modifying forms of work process in ed are recommended. results the correlation between the waitin...