BACKGROUND In the United Kingdom, pharmaceutical services can be delivered by both community pharmacies (CPs) and dispensing doctor practices (DPs). Both must adhere to minimum standards set out in NHS regulations; however, no common framework exists to guide quality improvement. Previous phases of this research had developed a set of characteristics indicative of good pharmaceutical service pr...

A simple, sensitive, selective rapid spectrophotometric method has been developed for the determination of synthetic antimicrobial furazolidone in pure form and pharmaceutical formulations based on the oxidative coupling reaction with MBTH reagent, at P4.0 which is extractable at 630 nm. Beer’s law is obeyed in the concentration ranges 10-60 μg ml. And 5-30 μg ml. For blood sample the developed...

Benzyl alcohol used as the sample preparation solvent in the determination of residual solvents in pharmaceutical bulks yielded benzene, toluene, and benzaldehyde on capillary gas chromatography (GC) by sonication. The factors responsible for compounds generated are discussed. The quality of benzyl alcohol and the type of sonicator were not involved in the generation of benzene, toluene, and be...

OBJETIVE To analyze the relationship between access to medicines by the population and the institutionalization of pharmaceutical services in Brazilian primary health care. METHODS This study is part of the Pesquisa Nacional sobre Acesso, Utilização e Promoção do Uso Racional de Medicamentos - Serviços 2015 (PNAUM - National Survey on Access, Use and Promotion of Rational Use of Medicines - S...

OBJECTIVE To assess nurse practitioners' interactions with pharmaceutical industry promotional activities and their perception of information reliability and self-reported prescribing behaviors. STUDY DESIGN Self-administered online survey. METHODS A nationally randomized sample of nurse practitioner prescribers was surveyed. Eligibility criteria included current clinical practice and licen...

Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 497 July August 2010 analysis of topotecan hydrochloride in bulk and its injection dosage form. It does not suffer from any interference due to common excipients present in the pharmaceutical preparation and can be conveniently adopted for quality control analysis. We have developed a sensitive UPLC method for the determination of topotecan using small ...

The paper empirically studies whether pharmaceutical firms uses advertising as a signal for high quality drugs. A nested random effects count data hurdle model is introduced to handle the excess number of zero observations in the sample as well as nested random drug, firm and substance specific effects. The empirical study indicate that drug quality (measured as the number of side-effects) do n...

Tobramycin belongs to the aminoglycoside class of antibiotics. Assay procedures were investigated to determine the most suitable methods for the assay of tobramycin in blood, urine, and pharmaceutical preparations. The agar-plate assay was the method of choice for determinations in urine and serum. The turbidimetric assay was selected for the assay of pharmaceutical preparations. An extraction ...

A simple, accurate, sensitive and rapid method for the determination of some aromatic amines in either the pure form or in pharmaceutical formulation or in biological fluids or in waste water sample is proposed. The method is based on the formation of colored compounds with sodium 1,2-naphthoquinone-4-sulphonate and cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide in alkaline medium. Beer’s law of colored speci...

For the PAT application of microbial monitoring instruments in pharmaceutical field, certain performance features of a detector technology are highly desirable, among them are: (1) real time microbial detection; (2) capability of continuous monitoring of microbial level in the environment; (3) broad detection range of microbes; (4) freedom from sample preparation and (5) ease of operation. To p...