Objective: To explore how pharmacists integrated the Chat, Check and Chart (CCC) tools in community practice and to identify barriers and facilitators to use. Design: Concurrent nested mixed-method study. Open-ended, semi-structured qualitative interviews on tools use and a quantitative survey were completed via telephone. Setting: Community-based pharmacy practice. Participants: 39 community p...

prevention of radiation-induced xerostomia in head and/or neck cancers in 21% (n ¼ 6), reduction of renal toxicity from cisplatin in 3% (n ¼ 1), and reduction of fatigue from cisplatin in 3% (n ¼ 1). The majority of patients (79%) experienced at least one adverse effect with the most common being nausea and vomiting, rash, and hypotension. Additional results will be presented.

Pharmacy managers face unique challenges when it comes to the proper management of inventory, with balancing inventory levels that satisfy patients’ needs while minimizing costs the primary goal. This goal is not met when inventory is managed without careful planning and analysis – for example, just ordering substantial quantities of each formulary medication in an institutional setting. While ...

The distribution rotation is one of the compulsory rotations in the Canadian pharmacy practice residency program. This rotation aligns with the 2010 Accreditation Standards of the Canadian Hospital Pharmacy Residency Board (CHPRB), which require pharmacy practice residents to demonstrate knowledge of medication-use systems. All residency training programs across Canada incorporate a distributio...

BACKGROUND Increased patient demand for healthcare services coupled with a shortage of general practitioners necessitates changes in professional roles and service delivery. In 2016, NHS England began a 3-year- pilot study of pharmacists in general practice, however, this is not an entirely new initiative. There is limited, current, evidence-based, UK research to inform the pilot so studies of ...

276. Molecular Epidemiology of MRSA and VRE Co-colonization among Hospitalized Adults in Detroit Emily T. Martin, MPH, PhD; Matthew Compton; Richard Evans; John Mcroberts, BS; Linda Arrabi; Amin Pasha, MD; Paul Lephart, PhD; Michael J. Rybak, PharmD, MPH; Keith S. Kaye, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA; Pharmacy Practice, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; Detroit Me...

Although there is a substantial role for social theory in explaining patients’ health behaviors, it does not appear that pharmacists commonly use such theories to provide patient care. This paper attempts to demonstrate an explicit link between social theory and pharmacy practice. The theory of structure and agency and the practice problem of poor medication adherence (MA) in patients with HIV/...

The PHARMINE (Pharmacy Education in Europe) consortium surveyed pharmacy education and practice in 2012. Surveys were updated in 2017 for publication. The PHARMINE consortium was especially interested in specialization in pharmacy education and practice (for community, hospital, and industrial pharmacy), and in the impact of the Bologna agreement and the directive of the European Commission on ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate self reported practice and actual practice of private pharmacy staff in relation to drug regulations and provision of prednisolone (a prescription-only corticosteroid) on request to treat lower back pain. METHOD Sixty private pharmacies in Hanoi were randomly selected. Self reported practice was assessed through interviews with pharmacy staff using a questionnaire; ac...