On a Saturday afternoon in 1998, in a small town in Washington State, a 15-year-old young woman accompanied by her friend enters a local pharmacy and walks up to the counter. The tearful 15-year-old needs help and tells the pharmacist of being raped the night before. She expressed being too afraid to tell her parents, the police or her doctor. She decided to come to the pharmacy because it was ...

pharmacists are members of the healthcare teams that provide valuable services to society. their incentive to deliver such services is influenced by remuneration methods. in this study, we aimed to review the remuneration models for pharmacists’ services and the factors affecting the profitability of pharmacies in some selected countries, including france, ireland, canada and turkey, and compar...

any suboptimum treatment in the management of patients can lead to medication errors (mes) that may increase morbidity and mortality in hospitalized individuals. by establishing well-designed patient care activities within the managed care setting, clinical pharmacists can cooperate with other health care professionals to provide quality care and maximize safety. the aim of this study was to ev...

background: stress is an important element of organization ineffectiveness and since it leads to sickness, eventually it reduces quality and quantity of health care, lead to expansion of it costs and low job satisfaction. stress comes along with consequences, one of this reactions which comes along with horrible effects is job burnout. health care are more exposed for job burnout. we examined t...

OBJECTIVES This study evaluated the uptake of Western Australian (WA) pharmacist vaccination services, the profiles of consumers being vaccinated and the facilitators and challenges experienced by pharmacy staff in the preparation, implementation and delivery of services. DESIGN Mixed-methods methodology with both quantitative and qualitative data through surveys, pharmacy computer records an...

BACKGROUND One aspect of ordering and prescribing medication is the requirement for a trained professional to review medication orders or prescriptions for appropriateness. In practice, this review process is usually performed by a clinical pharmacist. However, in many medical centers there is a shortage of staff and a pharmacist is not always available. OBJECTIVE To determine whether remote ...

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...

Tenofovir is an antiviral agent prescribed for patients suffering from hepatitis B. It is associated with some side effects such as reduction in the level of patients’ adherence. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of clinical pharmacist consultation on patients’ adherence to the use of Tenofovir. In this prospective study, a total of 80 patients were enrolled into the study and we...

BACKGROUND Previous pharmacist interventions to reduce cardiovascular (CV) risk have been limited by low patient enrolment. The primary aim of this study was to implement a collaborative pharmacist intervention that used a systematic case-finding procedure to identify and manage patients with uncontrolled CV risk factors. METHODS This was an uncontrolled, program implementation study. We impl...

BACKGROUND There have been no multicenter studies that estimated the relations of either nurse or pharmacist home visit program to drug costs of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs). This study aimed to establish whether patients who used nurse or pharmacist home visit programs (nurse or pharmacist program) had lower drug costs of PIMs than those who did not use nurse or pharmacist prog...