The present study was conducted to assess the attitudes and behaviors of practicing community pharmacists towards patient counselling and use of patient information leaflets in the state of Karnataka. Convenient sampling method was adopted to collect the responses with the help of self-completion questionnaires. A total of 258 practicing community pharmacists in the age group of 22-60 y of both...

Background: Nowadays pharmacists should be involved in patients care and providing pharmaceutical care more than before, but still there is a gap between standard of care and pharmacy practice in pharmacies. Objective: In this study we aimed at evaluating the pharmacists experiences and attitudes about ethical professional practice in pharmacies. Setting: The study was conducted in the Tehran ...

A medication error is a health problem that has many impacts on patients ranging from mild risk to even the most severe of causing death. The number mistakes in prescription writing at Ibnu Sina Bukittinggi Hospital September 2016 increased 60.90%. Therefore, study aims analyze factors pharmacy RSI. This type research uses qualitative approach. Informants this were 5 people who taken intentiona...

Objective: The objective of this project was to improve medication safety at Kaiser Permanente Colorado (KPCO). Methods: Six projects that included over 400,000 members were conducted at medical offices and pharmacies. They focused on drug-drug interactions, warfarin-drug interactions, dosing in patients with impaired kidney function, prescribing among elderly patients, prescribing during pregn...

BACKGROUND The need for accurate calculation of long-term care (LTC) pharmacies' costs to dispense (CTD) has become more important as payers have moved toward reimbursement models based on pharmacies' actual acquisition cost for drug products and the Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS) has implemented requirements that LTC pharmacies must dispense prescriptions for certain branded drug...

BACKGROUND The Electronic Prescription Service release Two (EPS2) is a new national healthcare information and communication technology in England that aims to deliver effective prescription writing, dispensing and reimbursement service to benefit patients. The aim of the study was to explore initial user experiences of Community Pharmacists (CPs) using EPS2. METHODS We conducted nonparticipa...

UNLABELLED Pharmacy in Moldova is undergoing a period of transition. The professional practice is adjusting to a market-oriented economy from the previous Soviet system. The pharmaceutical sector has been liberalised giving rise to a significant increase in the number of community pharmacies. This has led to some adverse effects on the profession of pharmacy with pharmacists having considerable...

The aim of this paper is to highlight the role of pharmaceutical care at community pharmacies in Pakistan. The paper draws on the literature related to current dispensing practices at community pharmacies in developing countries as well as in Pakistan. There are approximately 63,000 community pharmacies in Pakistan, and according to an estimate, 80% of the medicines are being distributed throug...