OBJECTIVES To determine the common stages and strategies involved in the dispensing accuracy-checking process used by pharmacy staff and to determine the training activities used by these staff to gain the knowledge and skills for accuracy checking. METHOD Face-to-face tape-recorded ethnographic interviews (n = 28) were undertaken in 2009-2010 at two large teaching hospitals with a purposive ...

Generic prescribing and generic substitution are mechanisms for reducing the cost of drugs. The purpose of this study was to assess the extent to which generic prescribing by private medical practitioners and generic substitution by private pharmacists is practised in South Africa and to estimate the potential savings from these two practices. Prescriptions from 10 pharmacists were collected on...

UNLABELLED Pharmacists have an important role in detecting, preventing, and solving prescription problems, which if left unresolved, may pose a risk of harming the patient. OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to evaluate the feasibility of a generic study instrument for documentation of prescription problems requiring contact with prescriber before dispensing. The study was organized:...

OBJECTIVE To characterize the workforce in the pharmaceutical services in the primary care of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). METHODS This is a cross-sectional and quantitative study, with data from the Pesquisa Nacional sobre Acesso, Utilização e Promoção do Uso Racional de Medicamentos - Serviços, 2015 (PNAUM - National Survey on Access, Use and Promotion of Rational Use of Medicin...

By October 2002, the separation of prescribing and dispensing in Japan had already been implemented for 28 years since the system was inaugurated in 1974. Although the separation rate reached 44.5% in 2001, the questions, "Is the separation necessary in Japan?" or "Has the system been working successfully?" are often heard. These questions are raised because people have not noted the advantages...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of pharmacist intervention on the prevention and solution of drug therapyproblems (DTP), Body Mass Index (BMI), and blood pressure control in elderly outpatients with hypertension. The instruments were applied to 30 elderly outpatients assisted at the pharmacy of a primary health care unit in Ribeirão Preto (SP), Brazil. The group of patients...

The traditional system of providing drug therapy to patients, in which only certain health care professionals are authorized to initiate drug therapy, is under attack at many levels. The processes of drug prescribing, dispensing, administration, monitoring,’ and dosage adjustment, as practiced in this traditional system, occur in a disjointed fashion. that frequently results in avoidable drug-r...

The Belgian Association of Hospital Pharmacists (BAHP) is a professional and scientific association representing all pharmacists who work in hospital institutions, whether private or public, university, general or psychiatric. This association was created in 1953. The aim of this short paper is to tell the history of its continuous development in a few words. The main development is reviewed fr...