UNLABELLED The purpose of this one-year observational study was to evaluate quality of life in patients at the Medical University of South Carolina Family Medicine clinic who were followed by a clinical pharmacist diabetes educator. METHODS Patients who have been seen by the clinical pharmacist for diabetes education and management services were contacted by telephone and asked to complete a ...

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Introduction: Drug-related problems (DRPs) are frequent in hospitalization where multiple changes in patient’s medication regimens and lack of continuity of care may be accompanied. Objectives: To assess clinical pharmacist intervention on the drug related problems in medicine ward of tertiary care hospital. Method: It was a prospective, observational and interventional study carried over a per...

AIMS To describe medication adherence education, practice, research and policy efforts carried out by pharmacists in Spain in the last decade. METHODS A literature review using Medline and Embase was conducted covering the last ten years. Additional pharmaceutical bibliographic sources in Spain were consulted to retrieve articles of interest from the last decade. Articles were included if a p...

background: pharmacy education has been changed in recent years. pharmacy students need more practical and clinical skills which come from direct interaction with patients and other health care providers. to achieve this, students need more effective courses and clerkships. in this paper we describe our method to design and evaluate clinical pharmacy clerkship for the first time in ahvaz jundis...

PURPOSE Pharmacists are uniquely trained to provide guidance to patients in the selection of appropriate non-prescription therapy. Physicians in Qatar may not always recognize how pharmacists function in assuring safe medication use. Both these health professional groups come from heterogeneous training and experiences before migrating to the country and these backgrounds could influence collab...

BACKGROUND Health care professionals (HCP) are known key elements of effective patient's counselling and education. For patients taking warfarin, education about the dose, side effects, and toxicity is clearly identified as a cornerstone of achieving improved health and quality of life. The study objective was to evaluate the patients' knowledge about warfarin and assess the impact of the healt...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was twofold; 1) to develop a clinical pharmacist-led 12 month lasting follow-up program for patients with established coronary heart disease (CHD) discharged from the University Hospital of North Norway, and 2) to explore the impact of the program with regards to adherence to a medication assessment tool for secondary prevention of CHD and change in biomedical ri...

BACKGROUND Pharmacists have been shown to positively impact the outcomes of care for treatment of many different kinds of disease states. In particular, pharmacist-run lipid clinics have enjoyed varying degrees of success, depending on the outcome assessed. At our hospital, when a patient is transferred to the pharmacist-coordinated lipid clinic, the primary care pharmacist is responsible for o...