Alison Beaney is regional quality assurance specialist based at The Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, Anne Black is quality assurance pharmacist and Clare Dobson is a basic grade pharmacist at Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Steve Williamson is lead pharmacist for cancer services at Northumbria Healthcare Trust. Mark Robinson is a pre registration trainee at Sunderland R...

We examined pharmacists' attitudes and practices related to syringe sales to injection drug users before and after legal reform and local programming to enhance sterile syringe access. We replicated a 1996 study by conducting pharmacist phone surveys and syringe test-buys in randomly selected pharmacies. Test-buy success increased from 48% in 1996 to 65% in 2003 (P=.04). Pharmacists agreeing th...

BACKGROUND The validity and usefulness of incident reporting and other methods for identifying adverse events remains unclear. This study aimed to compare five methods in general practice. METHODS In a prospective observational study, with five general practitioners, five methods were applied and compared. The five methods were physician reported adverse events, pharmacist reported adverse ev...

In order for the global healthcare system to remain sustainable, healthcare spending needs to be reduced, and self-treating certain conditions under the guidance of a pharmacist provides a means of accomplishing this goal. This article was developed to describe global healthcare trends affecting self-care with a specific focus on the role of the pharmacist in facilitating over-the-counter (OTC)...

OBJECTIVES To determine if medication review by a clinical pharmacist of older patients in the ED impacted on admission to hospital and other outcomes. METHODS A stratified, randomised controlled study comparing the intervention to current practice. A tertiary referral ED in New South Wales, Australia. Older people (>70 years) living at home who initially reported taking greater than five med...

The correlation between the pharmacist time required for counseling patients and the characteristics of the services provided was studied. Data from the Kaiser Permanente/USC Patient Consultation Study were used to examine the relationship between pharmacist time and potential problems, actions to resolve the problems, and disposition of prescriptions. A regression model was estimated with phar...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Patient education is a critical task that may be carried out by the pharmacists, especially in the context of contemporary pharmacists' roles, which tend to be closer to patients and their needs. This study aimed to evaluate the counseling provided by the pharmacist in the community pharmacy, from the patient's perspective. PATIENTS AND METHODS We conducted a prospective, ...

PURPOSE Results of a study to determine the number of interventions unrelated to anticoagulation made in a pharmacist-managed anticoagulation clinic are presented. METHODS A retrospective, single-center cohort was conducted in a hospital-affiliated outpatient pharmacist-managed anticoagulation clinic. Patients were ≥18 years old and attended at least one face-to-face appointment between Janua...

In Belgian hospitals, drug histories of patients taken on admission are generally collected by medical trainees, physicians and nurses. As errors in drug histories may lead to medication errors and adverse drug events, we aimed at comparing the data obtained by a clinical pharmacist with those obtained by the nurses in a surgical orthopaedic ward. In this four months study, 50 patients, with a ...

Objective: To assess awareness of pharmacovigilance among the healthcare professionals and to evaluate the impact of an educational intervention for improving awareness of pharmacovigilance among physician, pharmacist and nurses in an Indian tertiary care teaching hospital. Material &Methods: A suitable self-administered Knowledge, attitude, practice (KAP) survey questionnaire was designed, val...