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Long-Term Evaluation of a UK Community Pharmacy-Based Weight Management Service

Pharmacy, 2020
Obesity increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer, reducing both the quality and quantity of life. Consequently, government healthcare costs are significant. A greater than 5% reduction in weight has been shown to result in
Gareth Evans, David Wright
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Current Practice in Weekly Pillbox Preparation and Perceived Added Value of Future Collaboration between Community Pharmacists and Home Care Nurses in Belgium [PDF]

Journal of Advanced Pharmacy Research, 2023
Background: Medication-related errors represent a public health burden but are mainly preventable. A strategy to reduce medication errors could be pharmacist-nurse collaboration in weekly pillbox preparation.
Robin Crunenberg, Olivier Ethgen, Claire Simon   +2 more
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A cost utility analysis alongside a cluster-randomised trial evaluating a minor ailment service compared to usual care in community pharmacy

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Minor ailments are “self-limiting conditions which may be diagnosed and managed without a medical intervention”. A cluster randomised controlled trial (cRCT) was designed to evaluate the clinical, humanistic and economic outcomes of a Minor ...
Noelia Amador-Fernández, Shalom I. Benrimoj, Leticia García-Mochón, Victoria García-Cárdenas, Sarah Dineen-Griffin, Miguel Ángel Gastelurrutia, Jesús Carlos Gómez-Martínez, Vicente Colomer-Molina, Fernando Martínez-Martínez   +8 more
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Current State of Community Pharmacist-Physician Collaboration — A Cross-sectional Survey Among Pharmacists in Poland [PDF]

Acta Poloniae Pharmaceutica
A patient-centered partnership between different healthcare professionals is critical to improving the quality of health services. While the cooperation of physicians, nurses, midwives, and paramedics is well documented, more and more attention is paid ...
Iwona Wrześniewska - Wal, Jarosław Pinkas, Mateusz Jankowski   +2 more
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Multilevel Engagements of Pharmacists During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Way Forward

Frontiers in Public Health, 2020
Severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was first reported in China in December 2019 which was later declared to be a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Tauqeer Hussain Mallhi, Aroosa Liaqat, Arooj Abid, Yusra Habib Khan, Nasser Hadal Alotaibi, Abdulaziz Ibrahim Alzarea, Nida Tanveer, Tahir Mehmood Khan   +7 more
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The human gut microbiome across the life course

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Despite significant individual variation and continuous change throughout life, the human gut microbiome follows some life stage‐specific trends. This article provides a brief overview of how gut microbiome composition shifts across different phases of life. Created in BioRender. Özkurt, E. (2026) https://BioRender.com/8q4nrnc.
Alise J. Ponsero, Basak Bahcivanci, Antonietta Hayhoe, Animesh Acharjee, Ezgi Özkurt   +4 more
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An analysis of pharmacists' workplace patient safety perceptions across practice setting and role characteristics

Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 2021
Background: Lay press investigations have been published that describe pharmacist errors and the workplace environment in the community pharmacy setting. However, recent studies that explore pharmacists' perceptions of patient safety in the workplace are
Reginald Dilliard, Nicholas E. Hagemeier, Brady Ratliff, Rebecca Maloney   +3 more
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Microbiome−host proteostasis crosstalk—An emerging perspective on mechanisms and interventions toward healthy longevity

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Proteostasis and the gut microbiota play a key role in shaping host physiology. Microbiota‐derived metabolites, vitamins, and RNA modulate host proteostasis. Findings from model systems, including C. elegans, indicate microbes can either stabilize or disrupt host proteostasis.
Abhishek Anil Dubey, Maria Ermolaeva
wiley   +1 more source

Developing a pharmacist-led intervention to provide transitional pharmaceutical care for hospital discharged patients: A collaboration between hospital and community pharmacists

Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 2022
Background: Patients who transfer from the hospital back to the community are at risk of experiencing problems related to their medications. Hospital pharmacists (HPs) and community pharmacists (CPs) may play an important role and provide transitional ...
Laura Victoria Jedig Lech, Charlotte Rossing, Trine Rune Høgh Andersen, Lotte Stig Nørgaard, Anna Birna Almarsdóttir   +4 more
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Design and analysis strategies for robust microbiome ageing research

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The gut microbiome changes with age and associates with age‐related morbidity and mortality, establishing it as a potential biomarker and intervention target for ageing. Realising this potential requires methodological rigour, yet distinguishing biological signals from methodological artefacts remains challenging across cohorts. This review provides an
Mark Olenik, İsmail Güderer, Yi Wang, Tayyaba Alvi, Prasoon Pandey, Handan Melike Dönertaş   +5 more
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