BACKGROUND In the financing of a national health system, where pharmaceutical spending is one of the main cost containment targets, predicting pharmacy costs for individuals and populations is essential for budget planning and care management. Although most efforts have focused on risk adjustment applying diagnostic data, the reliability of this information source has been questioned in the pri...

Value-based insurance design (VBID) represents an innovative approach to health insurance coverage. In the context of pharmacy benefits, the goal of VBID is to minimize access barriers to the most effective and appropriate treatments for specific medical conditions. Both private and public insurance programs have explored VBID pharmacy projects primarily for medical conditions affecting adults....

Frisk, P. 2018. Surveys and services. The feasibility of conducting research in Swedish community pharmacies. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Pharmacy 244. 67 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0213-3. For the past decades, there has been a shift in community pharmacy practice from dispensing and compounding towards provisio...

Today, it's getting harder to learn a career in pharmacy. In addition self-guided individual learning, pharmaceutical educators are required find and adopt ways that support higher-level thinking, collaborative student motivation. One strategy achieve these aims is develop use case-based learning as an traditional teaching techniques. They learner-centered, small-group, interactive experiences ...

OBJECTIVE To update the Pharmacy Technician Certification Examination based on analysis of pharmacy practice elements (functions, responsibilities, and knowledge). DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING United States in spring 2005. INTERVENTIONS Web-based survey. PARTICIPANTS Random sample of 4,000 Certified Pharmacy Technicians (CPhTs). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Respondents' ratings of e...

Interactive pharmacy case studies are an essential component of the pharmacy curriculum. We recently developed an elective course at the Rangel College of Pharmacy in pharmacy case studies for second- and third-year Doctor of Pharmacy students using Second Life® (SL), an interactive three-dimensional virtual environment that simulates the real world. This course explored the use of SL for educa...

Dear Editor, In pharmacy, professionalism must containthe skills necessary to be a capable pharmacypractitioner. It seems that pharmacy studentsdo not become professionals after graduationfrom the pharmacy school. To be a professionalpharmacist, students should have a lifelongcommitment to the society and patients.Evolving professional knowledge, attitudesand behaviors is a critical step in pro...