BACKGROUND Pharmacist involvement in the prevention of medication errors is well documented. One such method, the process by which hospital pharmacists undertake these clinical interventions needs to be described and documented. The perceived barriers to pharmacists succeeding in getting their recommendations accepted could inform future safety strategy development. This study was therefore to ...

OBJECTIVES To quantify patients' preferences for new pharmacist independent prescribing services in general practice for managing common existing long-term conditions compared with usual medical prescribing. METHODS A discrete choice experiment cross-sectional survey was conducted in five general practices in England (October-November 2009). Four service attributes reported on the length of c...

Community pharmacies in Japan have long been advocated as effective sources of nonprescription medicines and health-related advice. Consumers sometimes self-treat symptoms of minor illnesses without consulting a pharmacist because the benefits of such consultations are not adequately recognized. The aim of this study was to investigate the use and impact of pharmacist consultations before purch...

Weeneebayko General Hospital in Moose Factory, Ontario, is a 30-bed acute care hospital that serves the 9000 residents living on the James Bay coast of Ontario. Most of the population consists of Native Canadians living in 6 communities, 4 of which are accessible only by plane or by boat. Traditionally, the hospital pharmacy was to be staffed with one full-time hospital pharmacist. There are al...

OBJECTIVES The study objective was to determine the feasibility of using a pharmacist-staffed, protocol-based structured approach to improving the management of chronic, recurrent gout. SETTING The study was carried out in the outpatient clinic of a single Kaiser Permanente medical centre. This is a community-based clinic. PARTICIPANTS We report on 100 consecutive patients between the ages ...

The reimbursement model for pharmaceutical care remains a barrier to successful widespread implementation of pharmacist-provided services. In some instances, community pharmacists have been successful in obtaining direct compensation for services from patients; however, evidence suggests that lack of patient demand for pharmacist-services may ultimately undermine the campaign for widespread thi...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of a clinical pharmacist-led patient education program for type 2 diabetic patients at Isfahan Endocrine & Metabolism Research Center (IEMRC) from April 2008 to January 2009. METHODS In a randomized controlled clinical trial, a total of 172 patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes were selected and randomly allocated into control an...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The effects of a required pharmacotherapy/research rotation in family medicine residency programs, precepted by a clinical pharmacist, have not been documented in the literature. This study evaluated the effects that a focused pharmacotherapy/research rotation had on family medicine residents' knowledge of pharmacotherapy and research topics. METHODS During the first...

Honeybee, a small -although powerful- creature moves from one place to another to make an elixir, which cures different diseases. To make one kilogram of honey the small creature has to carry 150000 pieces of pollen and suck the sap of ten million flowers. Both honey and the honeybee poison have been used in treating diseases for thousands of years. The product made by such tiny creatures has b...