The Infectious Diseases Society of Taiwan (IDST) established and issued the first version of “Guidelines on Antimicrobial Therapy of Pneumonia in Taiwan” in December 1999. A revised version was issued in conjunction with the Taiwan Society of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine in 2001. With the advances in many areas of medicine and revisions in the American “Update of Practice Guidelines for the ...

OBJECTIVE Errors in community medication histories increase the risk of adverse events. The objectives of this study were to estimate the extent to which access to community-based pharmacy records provided more information about prescription drug use than conventional medication histories. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective cohort of patients with public drug insurance who visited the emerge...

OBJECTIVE To describe the education, research, practice, and policy related to pharmacist interventions to improve medication adherence in community settings in the United States. METHODS Authors used MEDLINE and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (since 1990) to identify community and ambulatory pharmacy intervention studies which aimed to improve medication adherence. The authors also s...

This paper presents the results of the second European Delphi round on the ranking of competences for pharmacy practice and compares these data to those of the first round already published. A comparison of the numbers of respondents, distribution by age group, country of residence, etc., shows that whilst the student population of respondents changed from Round 1 to 2, the populations of the p...

BACKGROUND Although various instruments have been developed to measure customer satisfaction with community pharmacy services, there is limited research regarding pharmacy staffs' understanding of service quality and its determinants. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to explore the perceptions of pharmacy staff regarding the factors that constitute a high level of service quality using the service...

BACKGROUND Providing patient-centred care requires pharmacy students to learn how to interact effectively and understand individual differences that can influence patients' health. The School of Pharmacy at The University of Auckland, New Zealand (NZ), developed a virtual teaching platform, called NZ Pharmville, which consisted of twenty-one community-based patients who are members of six famil...

BACKGROUND Sleep disorders are very common in the community and are estimated to affect up to 45% of the world's population. Pharmacists are in a position to give advice and provide appropriate services to individuals who are unable to easily access medical care. The purpose of this study is to develop an intervention to improve the management of sleep disorders in the community. The aims are- ...

BACKGROUND Rates of chronic illness are rising in Australia and as medications are frequently used in the management of a range of chronic conditions, community pharmacists are in an ideal position to better assist these consumers. There is currently limited information as to how pharmacy can do this from the perspective of consumer health organizations, health advocates and professional suppor...

OBJECTIVE To identify and assess barriers for dissemination, implementation, and sustainability of different cognitive services in Spanish community pharmacies. DESIGN Qualitative study through semi-structured interviews followed by a descriptive analysis. METHOD Two groups of experts related to Spanish community pharmacy were chosen. One with 15 community pharmacists with a relevant profes...

In 1994, a Ph.D-study started regarding pharmacy, organization and management (APOM) in the Netherlands. The APOM-project deals with the structuring and steering of pharmacy organization. This article describes the summary of the empirical results of a survey in a relatively large sample (n=169). Generalization to the population of pharmacies in the Netherlands was made. The results for thought...