Effective communication skills facilitate accurate identifications of patient's problems, improvement of the level of patient's satisfaction with the care, and patient's adherence to treatment. Furthermore, a good relationship with patients based on adequate communication lessens patient's anxiety and depression. A patient has his or her own position in a society as a citizen, as a worker and a...

Objectives. To determine whether completion of a patient counseling course improved pharmacy students’ perceptions of the importance of pharmaceutical care and whether there was a difference in students’ perceptions of pharmaceutical care provided in retail settings compared to that provided in clinic settings. Methods. A pre-course and post-course survey instrument was designed to measure stud...

OBJECTIVES A key policy question for the government of Uganda is how to equitably allocate primary health care pharmaceutical budgets to districts. This paper seeks to identify variables influencing current primary health care pharmaceutical expenditure and their usefulness in allocating prospective pharmaceutical budgets to districts. METHODS This was a cross sectional, retrospective observa...

This paper proposes an outline for writing-up a patient case that can be used by experienced pharmacy practitioners, or by students during case-study courses or clerkship training. When such written documentation is placed in the patient’s primary medical record it not only communicates pharmacotherapeutic evaluations and treatment recommendations but also serves as a record of pharmaceutical c...

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus has become an international healthcare crisis that requires new approaches to prevent and treat it. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of pharmaceutical care on quality of life (QOL) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. METHODS A prospective study on impact of pharmaceutical care on QOL in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus was conduc...

BACKGROUND This trial aims to investigate the effectiveness and cost implications of 'pharmaceutical care' provided by community pharmacists to elderly patients in the community. As the UK government has proposed that by 2004 pharmaceutical care services should extend nationwide, this provides an opportunity to evaluate the effect of pharmaceutical care for the elderly. DESIGN The trial desig...

The Japanese pharmaceutical industry has been growing steadily since the 1970's. The early success, however, largely depended on technological "diffusion" including technology transfer or licensing of competitive foreign pharmaceutical products followed by development of incremental drugs which largely contributed to the early prosperity of domestic industry. Recently, transformation in distrib...

Patient care consists of integrated domains of care, including medical care, nursing care, and pharmaceutical care. The provision of pharmaceutical care involves not only medication therapy but decisions about medication selection, dosages, routes and methods of administration, medication therapy monitoring, and the provision of medication-related information and counseling to individual patien...

We studied the association between OTC pharmaceutical sales and volume of patients with influenza-like-illnesses (ILI) at an urgent care center over one year. OTC pharmaceutical sales explain 36% of the variance in the patient volume, and each standard deviation increase is associated with 4.7 more patient visits to the urgent care center (p<0.0001). Cross-correlation function analysis demonstr...