BACKGROUND This study assessed pharmacy performance and satisfaction as reported by patients during ovulation induction therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients (n = 1269) receiving gonadotropin prescriptions for intrauterine insemination or in vitro fertilisation-embryo transfer in 2007-2008 were prospectively interviewed by nurses and/or completed a structured questionnaire to evaluate pharm...

BACKGROUND In the year 2000, the South Korean government introduced a program for separation of drug prescribing and dispensing. The goals of the program are to reduce misuse of drugs and to contain drug expenditures. The government also designated exception regions for the program to reduce the inconvenience for people who reside in areas with a shortage of health care resources. However, acco...

According to non-official data, despite official ban, over 50% of the pharmacies in Tehran are illegally managed by non pharmacist investors. It means despite the regulations ban, tendency to Chain pharmacy exist in Iran and some investor has more than 10 pharmacies. It means despite the regulations, tendency to Chain pharmacy exist. Benchmarking in other countries shows some advantages and dis...

BACKGROUND The Family Planning 2020 initiative aims to reach 120 million new family planning users by 2020. Drug shops and pharmacies are important private-sector sources of contraception in many contexts but are less well understood than public-sector sources, especially in urban environments. This article explores the role that drug shops and pharmacies play in the provision of contraceptive ...

As e-commerce and online pharmacies (OPs) arose, the potential impact of the Internet on the world of health shifted from merely the spread of information to a real opportunity to acquire health services directly. Aim of the study was to investigate the offer of prescription drugs in OPs, analysing their characteristics, using the content analysis method. The research performed using the Google...

The FDA isn’t the only federal agency under fi re for its policies on compounding pharmacies. A little-discussed fi nal rule, issued in November by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), concerns policies for physician payments starting January 1, 2013. The rule prohibits pharmacies from billing Medicare directly for compounded drugs that they supply to physicians’ offi ces for a...

OBJECTIVES To assess the number of parents who visited community pharmacies in London seeking pain medications for their children's pain and specifically for oral pain, to identify which health services parents contacted before their pharmacy visit and to estimate the cost to the National Health Service (NHS) when children with oral pain who visit pharmacies also see health professionals outsid...

Introduction This brief presents the latest data from a continuous monitoring of the status of rural pharmacies by the RUPRI Center. We have previously reported trends in the closure of rural independent pharmacies (Klepser et al., Independently Owned Pharmacy Closures in Rural America [Policy Brief 2008-2]) from May 2006 to April 2008, finding a net loss of 503 independently owned rural pharma...

OBJECTIVE To document the case management of uncomplicated malaria fever at community pharmacies located in the two major cities of Pakistan; Islamabad (national capital) and Rawalpindi (twin city). METHODS A comparative, cross-sectional study was designed to document the management of uncomplicated malaria fever at community pharmacies in twin cities of Pakistan through simulated patient vis...

We hypothesize that recent changes in policy and the spread of in-store medical clinics favor the provision of medication therapy management (MTM) services by large chain pharmacies while creating the potential for conflicts of interest from employed prescribers. First, MTM is now required by Medicare Part D, but the program may be more practical for community pharmacy chains than independent p...