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Flu Vaccinations in Pharmacies—A Review of Pharmacists Fighting Pandemics and Infectious Diseases

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020
The phenomenon of population ageing observed over recent years involves growing healthcare needs and the limited staffing and financing of healthcare systems, and as such demands some functional changes in the healthcare model in many countries.
M. Czech, M. Balcerzak, A. Antczak, Michał Byliniak, Elżbieta Piotrowska-Rutkowska, Mariola Drozd, G. Juszczyk, Urszula Religioni, R. Vaillancourt, P. Merks   +9 more
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Use of generic and essential medicines for prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases in Portugal

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background The successful control of cardiovascular diseases at the lowest possible cost requires the use of the most effective and affordable medicines.
Helena Gama, Carla Torre, José Pedro Guerreiro, Ana Azevedo, Suzete Costa, Nuno Lunet   +5 more
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Over-the-counter antibiotic sales in community and online pharmacies, China

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2020
Objective To determine the prevalence of and factors associated with dispensing antibiotics without a prescription in online and community pharmacies in China.
Yanhong Gong, Nan Jiang, Zhen-Yuan Chen, Jing Wang, Jia Zhang, Jie Feng, Zuxun Lu, Xiaoxv Yin   +7 more
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Analysis of the current state and problems of pharmacy production of medicines in UKRAINE

Фармацевтичний журнал, 2020
The current state of providing of the population of Ukraine with extemporaneous drugs produced in pharmacies is one of the most acute social problems of the healthcare system and pharmacy.
A. S. Nemchenko, К. О. Тsareva, V. M. Khomenko   +2 more
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Cross-Training Pharmacy Professionals as Community Health Workers

Pharmacy, 2023
Community health workers (CHWs) are health professionals that connect the populations they serve to health services. They play a valuable role in assessing patients’ needs, linking patients with health and human resources, educating patients toward ...
Paige Somerville, Ryan Lindsay, Elaine Nguyen   +2 more
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The Digital Pharmacies Era: How 3D Printing Technology Using Fused Deposition Modeling Can Become a Reality

Pharmaceutics, 2019
The pharmaceutical industry is set to join the fourth industrial revolution with the 3D printing of medicines. The application of 3D printers in compounding pharmacies will turn them into digital pharmacies, wrapping up the telemedicine care cycle and ...
Maisa R P Araújo, L. Sá-Barreto, Taís Gratieri, G. Gelfuso, M. Cunha-Filho   +4 more
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Naloxone Availability in Retail Pharmacies and Neighborhood Inequities in Access.

American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2020
INTRODUCTION This study examines the implementation of North Carolina's statewide naloxone standing order and identifies community characteristics associated with pharmacy stocking and willingness to sell naloxone under the standing order.
K. Egan, Samantha E. Foster, Ashton N Knudsen, Joseph G. L. Lee   +3 more
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‘Fighting an uphill battle’: a qualitative study of the challenges encountered by pharmacy workers when providing services to men who have sex with men in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Global Health Action, 2020
Background Previous research suggests that Tanzanian MSM might prefer consulting pharmacies and drugstores, rather than public healthcare services, when in need of STI medicines and treatment.
Joakim Öhman, Markus Larsson, John Kashiha, Anette Agardh   +3 more
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Digital Compounding in Pharmacies: A Pilot Stability Study

Medical Sciences Forum, 2023
The manufacture of medicines on demand for a particular patient, at the point of care, may be achieved via 3D printing, improving therapeutic outcomes, medication adherence and patient safety.
Ana I. Fernandes, Gabriela G. Pereira, João F. Pinto   +2 more
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Large language models for preventing medication direction errors in online pharmacies

Nature Medicine
Errors in pharmacy medication directions, such as incorrect instructions for dosage or frequency, can increase patient safety risk substantially by raising the chances of adverse drug events.
Cristobal Pais, Jianfeng Liu, Robert Voigt, V. Gupta, E. Wade, Mohsen Bayati   +5 more
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