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Community Pharmacists’ Role in Reducing the Incidence of Cardiometabolic Adverse Drug Events in Schizophrenia: Insights from Mental Health Professionals

Medicina, 2023
Background and Objectives: Schizophrenia, a debilitating mental illness, is often associated with significant physical health risks. Many second-generation antipsychotics increase the risk of metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease.
Rahnee A. Karge, Colin M. Curtain, Mohammed S. Salahudeen   +2 more
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Gauging Portuguese community pharmacy users' perceptions [PDF]

, 2007
Objective: To assess perceptions related to facets of community pharmacy usage within the Portuguese general population. Methods: An ONSA (The Governmental Public Health Observatory) instrument was used, the ECOS (Em Casa Observamos Saúde) sample.
Afonso Miguel Neves Cavaco, Airaksinen, Bell, Field, Hamilton, Ian Peter Bates, none, none, none, Nunes, Oparah, Reid, Schommer, Vallis   +13 more
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Pharmacists in Pharmacovigilance: Can Increased Diagnostic Opportunity in Community Settings Translate to Better Vigilance? [PDF]

, 2014
The pharmacy profession has undergone substantial change over the last two to three decades. Whilst medicine supply still remains a central function, pharmacist’s roles and responsibilities have become more clinic and patient focused.
AG Granas, AI Wertheimer, B Gray, C Gonzalez-Gonzalez, C Su, Christine Randall, Consumers’ Association, Consumers’ Association, Consumers’ Association, D Brown, D Stewart, David Brown, DM Ashcroft, E Horsley, E Kroger, E Richardson, G Marchildon, GD Lansam, JK Jesson, Justine Howard, K Grootheest van, KB Blake, L Emmerton, L Hanna, M Jadeja, M Rosenthal, M Tobaiqy, MA Hadi, MP Smith, N Black, N Iqbal, P Chan, P Gavaza, P Rutter, Paul Rutter, S Keyhani, SS Sardas, T Kimura, V Paudyal, Z Austin   +39 more
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Community pharmacist-administered seasonal influenza vaccination: a national customer survey

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2020
Background In Switzerland, the influenza vaccination is recommended for high-risk groups and people who have contact with high-risk groups. Since 2015, Swiss pharmacists are allowed to vaccinate healthy adults after acquiring a certificate of competence ...
Dominik Stämpfli, Adrian Martinez-De la Torre, Sophie Du Pasquier, Danielle Stegmann, Andrea Brügger, Andrea M. Burden   +5 more
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Pharmacist's Perspectives on Administering a COVID-19 Vaccine in Community Pharmacies in Four Balkan Countries

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Community pharmacists expanded their roles and engaged in vaccination services in many countries around the world, but not in Balkan countries. This research aimed to assess the perceptions of pharmacists on involvement in the coronavirus disease (COVID ...
Adina Turcu-Stiolica, Maria Kamusheva, Maria Bogdan, Ivana Tadic, Klejda Harasani, Mihaela-Simona Subtirelu, Andreea-Daniela Meca, Sofia Šesto, Marina Odalović, Jasmina Arsić, Svetlana Stojkov, Svetlana Stojkov, Emili Terzieva, Guenka Petrova   +13 more
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Does evidence drive pharmacist over-the-counter product recommendations? [PDF]

, 2014
Rationale, aims and objectives To explore how community pharmacists use evidence to inform their practice when recommending or selling over-the-counter medicines.
Blenkinsopp, Chaar, Hanna, Harrington, Marwick, Pillay, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Rutter, Sackett, Soller   +9 more
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Pharmacists’ role in harm reduction: a survey assessment of Kentucky community pharmacists’ willingness to participate in syringe/needle exchange

Harm Reduction Journal, 2018
Background Pharmacists’ role in harm reduction is expanding in many states, yet there are limited data on pharmacists’ willingness to participate in harm reduction activities.
Amie Goodin, Amanda Fallin-Bennett, Traci Green, Patricia R. Freeman   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patient care and customer services during the COVID-19 pandemic at accredited pharmacies: Pharmacists and patients' perspectives

Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 2023
Background: Community pharmacists are now the most accessible healthcare professionals, providing advice, information, drugs, and devices across the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chamipa Phanudulkitti, Surangkana Puengrung, Karen Bell Farris   +2 more
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Predicting pharmacy naloxone stocking and dispensing following a statewide standing order, Indiana 2016 [PDF]

, 2018
BACKGROUND: While naloxone, the overdose reversal medication, has been available for decades, factors associated with its availability through pharmacies remain unclear.
Agley, J.D., Davis, A., Gassman, R., Hoss, A., Jayawardene, W., Meyerson, B.E., Ritchie, K., Ryder, P.T., Shannon, D.J.   +8 more
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Community pharmacy and the extended community pharmacist practice roles: The UAE

Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal, 2016
Background: The pharmaceutical care and ‘extended’ roles are still not practiced optimally by community pharmacists. Several studies have discussed the practice of community pharmacy in the UAE and have shown that most community pharmacists only counsel ...
Mirai Mourad Sadek, Asim Ahmed Elnour, Naama M.S. Al Kalbani, Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathula, Mohamed A. Baraka, Alaa Mohammed Abdul Aziz, Abdulla Shehab   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source