Healthcare organizations are facing serious internal and external challenges that affect their ability to provide quality pharmaceutical care and maintain patient safety. The dynamics of such challenges are affecting pharmaceutical processes, organizational and operating efficiencies, and patient outcomes. Pharmacoinformatics has been used as a term to reflect upon the use of information system...

Even though pharmaceutical care is not a new concept in pharmacy, its introduction and development has proved to be challenging. In Iceland, general practitioners are not familiar with pharmaceutical care and additionally no such service is offered in pharmacies or primary care settings. Introducing pharmaceutical care in primary care in Iceland is making great efforts to follow other countries...

BACKGROUND Most diabetic and hypertensive patients, principally the elderly, do not achieve adequate disease control and consume 5%-15% of annual health care budgets. Previous studies verified that pharmaceutical care is useful for achieving adequate disease control in diabetes and hypertension. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the economic cost and the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) per qu...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to assess the influence of pharmaceutical care on patients' knowledge, quality of life and blood pressure and to determine whether new type of pharmaceutical services changes the pharmacists' satisfaction and knowledge. METHODS Community pharmacies were randomly assigned to study and control group and pharmacists from both groups included patients with h...

CONTEXT It is not known whether patient outcomes are enhanced by effective pharmacist-patient interactions. OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of a pharmaceutical care program for patients with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Randomized controlled trial conducted at 36 community drugstores in Indianapolis, Ind. We enrolled 1113 pa...

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...

BACKGROUND Asthma as a chronic health condition can be controlled when in addition to clinical care, adequate education and support is provided to enhance self-management. Like many other chronic health conditions improved self-management positively impacts the health-related quality of life (HRQoL). It can therefore be said that a well-structured pharmaceutical care delivery that addresses the...

As a determining factor in various diseases and the leading known cause of preventable mortality and morbidity, tobacco use is the number one public health problem in developed countries. Facing this health problem requires authorities and health professionals to promote, via specific programs, health campaigns that improve patients' access to smoking cessation services. Pharmaceutical care has...

Since ancient times the necessity to cure disease or trauma lead human races to research efficacy remedy or surgical procedure. Surgery procedure need of drugs or medical devices and clinical pharmacist actively collaborate in this work. The term Surgery comes from Greek cheiron (hand) and ergon (opera), historical origin; starts since from 10,000 year BC. In the past, it was divided into two d...