In Japan, the principal role of hospital pharmacists has changed from that of dispensing medicines for outpatients to provision of clinical pharmacy services for inpatients. A self-administered questionnaire about subjective symptoms, working patterns, work environments and job satisfaction was administered to 495 hospital pharmacists and 84 prefectural office-based pharmacists (control group)....

This alleged rationality in the use of medicines would require a difficult alignment between distinct rationalities of the various actors that interact in the field of pharmaceutical services: federal, state, and municipal governments; universities and technical courses; health professionals; public and private health services; pharmaceutical industry and providers of supplies; patients and media.

OBJECTIVE To characterize the current stage of the institutionalization of pharmaceutical services in Brazilian cities. METHODS This study is part of the Pesquisa Nacional sobre Acesso, Utilização e Promoção do Uso Racional de Medicamentos (PNAUM - National Survey on Access, Use and Promotion of Rational Use of Medicines), a cross-sectional, exploratory, and evaluative study composed by an in...

OBJECTIVES To: (1) determine the percentage of the population in England that have access to a community pharmacy within 20 min walk; (2) explore any relationship between the walking distance and urbanity; (3) explore any relationship between the walking distance and social deprivation; and (4) explore any interactions between urbanity, social deprivation and community pharmacy access. DESIGN...

KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE A clinical pharmacist offers invaluable support in the development of a final prescription with better patient management and enhanced safety. Increasingly, medical practice is becoming a team effort with a specialized skill matrix, concentrating on multifaceted support for patient management. A physician undoubtedly leads the team, comprised of a specialist and skilled cli...

OBJECTIVES To apply sociological theories to understand public trust in extended services provided by community pharmacists relative to those provided by general practitioners (GPs). DESIGN Qualitative study involving focus groups with members of the public. SETTING The West of Scotland. PARTICIPANTS 26 purposively sampled members of the public were involved in one of five focus groups. T...

Background Internationally there is a gap between the development and delivery of professional pharmacy services. The fields of implementation science and knowledge translation have developed across disciplines with the objective of bringing evidence to practice. What appears necessary for success, but is not evident in implementation frameworks, is that core concepts should be considered for e...

By developing and maintaining mutually rewarding relationships with selected groups of patients and other partners, pharmacists can more effectively market pharmacy services.