OBJECTIVE To conduct a systematic literature review to determine what telemedicine services are provided by pharmacists and the impact of these services in the nursing facility setting. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE®, Scopus®, and Embase® databases. STUDY SELECTION The terms "telemedicine" or "telehealth" were combined by "and" with the terms "pharmacist" or "pharmacy" to identify pharmacists' use o...

The implementation of Iyaku Bungyo, the changed regulations for drug distribution and the proposed change of pharmacy education from a four-year program to a six-year program are rapidly changing the practice of pharmacy. However, pharmacists' activities still remain at the level of simple dispensing and selling of drugs. Also, the terms that describe the essence of pharmacists' activities, suc...

A descriptive survey which purposefully selected respondents from the registered nurses and pharmacists working in the study center. A total number of 274 nurses and 59 pharmacists participated in the study (n=333). Reliability coefficient was 0.6; Chi square and T-Test were applied to test hypotheses at α = 0.05 level of significance. All the respondents (n=333) indicated that exhaustion due t...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to assess the influence of pharmaceutical care on patients' knowledge, quality of life and blood pressure and to determine whether new type of pharmaceutical services changes the pharmacists' satisfaction and knowledge. METHODS Community pharmacies were randomly assigned to study and control group and pharmacists from both groups included patients with h...

Patient morbidity and mortality have resulted from incorrectly prepared or contaminated pharmacy-prepared products. 1–7 Pharmacists seldom know that inaccurate or contaminated products are dispensed when pharmacy quality monitors are inadequate. 8–10 In contemporary health care organizations, more patients are receiving compounded sterile products that are stored for extended periods before use...

BACKGROUND In order to provide appropriate advice to the patient at the time of dispensing and over-the-counter (OTC) medication counseling, community pharmacists need access to current and reliable information about medicines. Brazilian pharmacists have assumed new functions such as prescribing medication, in a dependent model, based in protocols. OBJECTIVE To examine the practice of communi...

Unexpected growth in medication use has escalated demand for pharmacists that has outpaced supply. Responses to the pharmacist shortage include larger workloads and greater use of pharmacist extenders and technology. As the profession has moved from a product orientation (dispensing medications) to a patient focus, clinical training requirements have expanded. However, structural and process ba...

Frisk, P. 2018. Surveys and services. The feasibility of conducting research in Swedish community pharmacies. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Pharmacy 244. 67 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0213-3. For the past decades, there has been a shift in community pharmacy practice from dispensing and compounding towards provisio...

BACKGROUND The use of multiple medicines (polypharmacy) is increasingly common in older people. Ensuring that patients receive the most appropriate combinations of medications (appropriate polypharmacy) is a significant challenge. The quality of evidence to support the effectiveness of interventions to improve appropriate polypharmacy is low. Systematic identification of mediators of behaviour ...