Panot Tangsucharit, Shingo Takatori, Pengyuan Sun, Yoshito Zamami, Mitsuhiro Goda, Poungrat Pakdeechote, Fusako Takayama, and Hiromu Kawasaki Department of Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmaceutical Care and Health Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Japan; Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Scie...

BACKGROUND Most European health care systems are suffering from the impact of demographic change. In short, aging of society is leading to higher costs of treatment per capita, while reproduction rates below 2.1 children per woman lead to a reduced number of younger people to provide for the necessary contributions into the health insurance system.This research paper addresses the questions wha...

BACKGROUND Bipolar I disorder (BD-I) is a chronic illness characterized by relapses alternating with periods of remission. Pharmacists can contribute to improved health outcomes in these patients through pharmaceutical care in association with a multidisciplinary health team; however, more evidence derived from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is needed to demonstrate the effect of pharmaceu...

OBJECTIVES To explore the nurses' expectations and experience about pharmacists in private sector hospitals of Karachi, Pakistan. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted from June to September 2012 in five private sector hospitals of Karachi, Pakistan. A convenient sample of nurses (n=377) were enrolled in this study. Data was obtained through a previously validated questionnaire. Respo...

Community pharmacists play a significant role in patient/disease management and perception by patients is increasingly important. A self-administered questionnaire was developed consisted of sociodemographic part and 15 questions. Patients have a positive overall perception of community pharmacists that is comparable to most studies in Europe. Community pharmacists' beyond dispensing drugs play...

CONTEXT The belief that expanding the role of pharmacists in patient care could improve the safety and efficacy of drug therapy is growing. Specifically, pharmaceutical care programs through which pharmacists provide direct and ongoing counseling to patients have been introduced. Whether such programs reduce medication-related problems or health care utilization is unknown. OBJECTIVE To asses...

More than a decade ago, Hepler and Strand1,2 introduced the concept that the therapeutic relationship between pharmacist and patient was an integral component of pharmaceutical care. They saw pharmaceutical care as “a covenantal relationship between a patient and a pharmacist in which the pharmacist performs drug use control functions (with appropriate knowledge and skill) governed by the aware...