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PILs that give you a headache? The lay-friendliness of non-pharmacy restricted, over-the-counter information leaflets

open access: yesQualitative Health Communication, 2022
Background: Over-the-counter (OTC) medication, and in particular non-pharmacy restricted OTC medicines, sold in supermarkets or online, is subject to the same EU legislation as prescription medication.
K. Zethsen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pharmacotherapy literacy level and predictors of low literacy among diabetes mellitus type 2 patients in Serbia

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Background Pharmacotherapy literacy (PTHL) is a specific ability to safely access, appraise and understand the available information concerning medication and to calculate and act accordingly.
Marija Levic   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Community Pharmacy Practice in Italy during the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) Pandemic: Regulatory Changes and a Cross-Sectional Analysis of Seroprevalence

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
Pharmacists in the community and the essential requirement to safeguard their own health have become fundamental since the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
F. Baratta   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Health professions education in Serbia: Evaluation and measures for quality improvement through experiential education, interprofessional education and teaching competencies development [PDF]

open access: yesVojnosanitetski Pregled, 2022
Background/Aim. Health professions education is facing emerging issues. A comprehensive situation analysis was performed among academic staff, healthcare practitioners, and healthcare science students to address and respond to new trends.
Kovačević Milena   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Helping Québec Pharmacists Seize the Vaccination Service Opportunity: The Pharmacy Best Practice Workshops

open access: yesPharmacy, 2021
Vaccinations are a safe and effective way to protect against infectious diseases. The World Health Organization estimates vaccines have saved more lives than any other interventions and every year about two to three million deaths are averted worldwide ...
K. Srirangan, Arnaud Lavenue
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impact of changes in controlled drugs legislation on benzodiazepine receptor agonist prescribing in Ireland: a repeated cross-sectional study

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2021
To examine the impact of new controlled drugs legislation introduced in May 2017 on benzodiazepine receptor agonist (BZRA) prescribing in Ireland. A repeated cross-sectional analysis was conducted using publically available monthly pharmacy claims data ...
C. Cadogan, C. Bradley, K. Bennett
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Doctor or drug dealer? International legal provisions for the legitimate handling of drugs of abuse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
© The Author(s) 2020. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in: Gallagher, C. T., Atik, S. K., Isse, L., & Mann, S. K. (2020). Doctor or drug dealer?
Atik, Sanaa   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Regulation of the apothecary activity in Bosnia and Herzegovina over the Austro-Hungarian period [PDF]

open access: yesMedicinski Glasnik, 2021
Aim To present the regulations governing the operation of pharmacies in Bosnia and Herzegovina over the Austro-Hungarian rule (1878-1918). Methods Qualitative secondary data analysis was used.
Vanda Marković-Peković
doaj   +1 more source

Do patients benefit from legislation regulating step therapy?

open access: yesHealth Economics, Policy and Law, 2021
Step therapy, also termed fail-first policy, describes a practice of insurance and pharmacy benefit management companies denying reimbursement for a specific treatment until after other treatments have first been found ineffective (i.e. failed).
L. Tharp, Zoe Rothblatt
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impact of different pack sizes of paracetamol in the United Kingdom and Ireland on intentional overdoses: a comparative study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
BACKGROUND: In order to reduce fatal self-poisoning legislation was introduced in the UK in 1998 to restrict pack sizes of paracetamol sold in pharmacies (maximum 32 tablets) and non-pharmacy outlets (maximum 16 tablets), and in Ireland in 2001, but with
Arensman, Ella   +8 more
core   +4 more sources

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