BACKGROUND Treatment of depression, the most prevalent and costly mental disorder, needs to be improved. Non-concordance with clinical guidelines and non-adherence can limit the efficacy of pharmacological treatment of depression. Through pharmaceutical care, pharmacists can improve patients' compliance and wellbeing. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness...

Background: Nowadays pharmacists should be involved in patients care and providing pharmaceutical care more than before, but still there is a gap between standard of care and pharmacy practice in pharmacies. Objective: In this study we aimed at evaluating the pharmacists experiences and attitudes about ethical professional practice in pharmacies. Setting: The study was conducted in the Tehran ...

From the dawn of time, the sharing of knowledge has been one of the main forces driving science and innovation. Yet in recent decades, a proprietary culture, which wrongly posits that all intellectual property must be restricted, has spread across the pharmaceutical industry and threatens to stall the engine that has given us so many valuable treatments. This paper argues that pharmaceutical co...

OBJECTIVE To review the challenges of warfarin education for older patients (aged 65 years or older) in terms of knowledge, access to warfarin education, and education resources. METHODS A quasi-systematic review of the literature was performed via electronic database searches (eg, Medline, Embase, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, International Pharmaceutical Abstract...

The emerging role of supramolecular chemistry and crystal engineering in pharmaceutical science has been influenced significantly by the interest in pharmaceutical cocrystals. Pharmaceutical co-crystals are co-crystals that are formed between an API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) and a co-crystal former that is a solid under ambient conditions. APIs contain functional groups that engage in ...

Patients with progressive renal cell carcinoma who undergo sunitinib treatment, experience many adverse events (AEs), including thrombopenia and hypertension. Dose reduction or treatment discontinuation due to AEs makes it difficult to control the clinical condition. Therefore, patients' understanding regarding the basics of blood pressure (BP) measurement and how to deal with each AE are parti...

BACKGROUND The pharmaceutical care approach serves as a model for medication review, involving collaboration between GPs, pharmacists, patients, and carers. Its use is advocated with older patients who are typically prescribed several drugs. However, it has yet to be thoroughly evaluated. AIM To estimate the effectiveness of pharmaceutical care for older people, shared between GPs and communi...

background: identification of regional pattern of poisoning is essential for health care authorities for proper planning on prevention programs and optimized management of antidote stockpiles. this study was designed to evaluate one-year epidemiologic pattern of acute poisoning cases treated at a tertiary care hospital in thrissur, india. methods: in this retrospective cross sectional study, me...

Development of a drug product is a complex, iterative process consisting of selection of a dosage form, excipients, processing route, operating equipment and so on. At each stage, knowledge in various forms, including heuristics, decision trees and mathematical models, is used in making decisions. Typically knowledge is modeled specifically for the tool that uses it, such as expert systems and ...