LAURA SBARCEA1*, LUCRETIA UDRESCU2, LIANA DRAGAN1, CRISTINA TRANDAFIRESCU1, MARIUS BOJITA3 1 Victor Babeo” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 2 Eftimie Murgu Square, 300041, Timiooara, Romania 2 Victor Babeo” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Drug Analysis , 2 Eftimie Murgu Square, 300041, Timio...

The focus of pharmacy practice and education has changed over the past decade. In the past, pharmacy practice and education were focused primarily on drugs and their distribution. The suggestion of pharmacy practice centered on the patient was first articulated by Hepler and Strand in 1990 as pharmaceutical care.1 The concept of pharmaceutical care quickly became adopted by the profession. By t...

BACKGROUND Recent attention has focused on access of communities to pharmacy services in rural areas. To increase access to pharmacy services in rural Western Australia some doctors have been granted a licence to dispense medication on the rationale that a pharmacy would not be economically viable in that community. However, there have been no studies conducted on whether a doctor dispensing se...

BACKGROUND Pharmacy services in the emergency department (ED) have been shown to decrease medication adverse events and improve patient outcomes. Anecdotally, there has been expansion of emergency medicine (EM) educational opportunities for pharmacy students and postgraduate year 1 (PGY1) pharmacy residents, however the extent of this expansion is currently unknown. OBJECTIVE The objective of...

PURPOSE In Pakistan, courses in pharmacy practice, which are an essential component of the PharmD curriculum, were launched with the aim of strengthening pharmacy practice overall and enabling pharmacy students to cope with the challenges involved in meeting real-world healthcare needs. Since very little research has assessed the efficacy of such courses, we aimed to evaluate students' percepti...

This paper aims to provide some guidelines for operators involved in local development related to the creation and management of territorial networks as critical tools to foster forms of efficient, effective and sustainable local development. Some models of local territorial networks’ structure and dynamics are described on the basis of the contributions of the complex networks’ theories. The d...