BACKGROUND In Australia, "continued dispensing" (CD) is a new model for supply of prescription medications. Under specific circumstances, community pharmacists are allowed to dispense a further one month supply of prescription only medications without a valid prescription. It allows continuation and treatment adherence when patients run out of statin and/or oral contraceptive (OC) medications, ...

OBJECTIVES Pharmacists provide a wide range of professional services to support the appropriate use of medicines by patients. This study aims to conduct an international, comparative analysis of remuneration models for pharmaceutical professional services. METHODS Information about remuneration models was derived from a literature review and a semi-structured questionnaire completed by expert...

OBJECTIVE Three online surveys explored compliance with the PPP by pharmacists and dermatologists, in the Netherlands. In 2007 and 2011, two pharmacist surveys were conducted to assess improvement over time. METHODS In 2007, survey was sent to members of the Utrecht Pharmacy Panel for Education & Research (UPPER) network (n = 1000) and in 2011, to the research group of the Dutch Association o...

Introduction: In hospitals, an optimum drug dispensing (DD) is involved in the quality of health services and the prevention of medication errors. This study aims to describe the features of hospital DD in Cote d’Ivoire in order to suggest improvements. Methodology: The site visit (risk management method) was conducted at hospital pharmacies (HP) of the three teaching hospitals in Abidjan. A se...

Background: Training improves dispensing behavior of drug dispensers in low- and middle-income countries. Between 2018 2020, a total 5,059 Grade C pharmacists, who completed 3-month training course for availing “Grade pharmacist certificate” were trained on Good Pharmacy Practice (GPP) 11 districts Bangladesh by Management Sciences Health (MSH) under Better (BHB) project. We assessed the impact...

BACKGROUND Self-care, including self-medication with over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, facilitates the public's increased willingness to assume greater responsibility for their own health. Direct consultation with pharmacists provides efficient professional guidance for safe and appropriate OTC use. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to characterize patient perceptions of pharmacists and use...

Neuenschwander: Let me tell you how this roundtable discussion came about. I had a number of conversations with pharmacists at the June meeting about computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE). It occurred to me that, with Leapfrog pressing so hard for CPOE, hospitals are almost feeling guilty or embarrassed for not having CPOE or not being ready to have it. And yet when I would talk to pharmac...

Recent research has highlighted the role and use of workplace artefacts by occupational communities in enacting jurisdictions within organizations. This article builds on these insights to understand how the use of a new technological object by community members has implications for the restructuring of workplace boundaries. Our study of hospital pharmacy automation examines how a newly introdu...

Injection drug users, their sex partners, and their children are at high risk for acquiring HIV infection and other bloodborne diseases. The risk for disease transmission in the United States is partly the result of restricted access to sterile injection equipment. Physicians and pharmacists can play an important role in providing syringe access by prescribing and dispensing syringes to patient...

OBJECTIVE Patients' opinion about prevalence of pharmaceutical services available in a community pharmacy among patients living in a rural area of the United Kingdom. The secondary objective was to identify appropriate action(s) to enhance patients' awareness of pharmaceutical services in rural areas. METHODS A self-administered, anonymous questionnaire was distributed to patients visiting a ...