VaccinesBackground/Objectives: Seasonal influenza vaccination is crucial for reducing morbidity, mortality, and healthcare burdens. The 2023/2024 Ligurian vaccination campaign (Italy) utilized an inclusive model involving local health authorities, general ...
Daniela Amicizia +10 more
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Is the pharmacy profession innovative enough?: meeting the needs of Australian residents with chronic conditions and their carers using the nominal group technique [PDF]
, 2014 Background Community pharmacies are ideally located as a source of support for people with chronic conditions. Yet, we have limited insight into what innovative pharmacy services would support this consumer group to manage their condition/s.
A Sav +25 more
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Emergency Contraception for Adolescents [PDF]
, 2008 Healthy Teen Network recommends that emergency contraception be treated as any other over-the-counter drug by pharmacies and be available over-the-counter without a prescription to adolescents. We encourage teaching adolescents, their parents, and health
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Metoclopramide Neurological Side Effects Screening; A Pharmacovigilence Study in Romanian Community Pharmacies [PDF]
, 2015 Background. Metoclopramide is a pharmacological agent frequently used in therapy against nausea and vomiting that can occur in indigestion, motion sickness, gastric ulcer, pyloric spasm and after surgery as a side effect of some anesthetics.
Junghină, Adrian +4 more
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Entry and regulation - Evidence from health care professions. [PDF]
The health care professions in Europe have been subject to substantial entry and conduct regulation. Most notably, pharmacies have frequently received high regulated markups over wholesale costs, and have been protected from additional competition ...
Schaumans, Catherine, Verboven, Frank
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Self-medication with over-the-counter analgesics : a survey of patient characteristics and concerns about pain medication [PDF]
, 2019 Pain is a common reason for self-medication with over-the-counter (OTC) analgesics. However, this self-treating population has remained largely uncharacterized.
Adriaens, Els +10 more
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Margins and Market Shares: Pharmacy Incentives for Generic Substitution. [PDF]
We study the impact of product margins on pharmacies’ incentive to promote generics instead of brand-names. First, we construct a theoretical model where pharmacies can persuade patients with a brand-name prescription to purchase a generic version ...
Brekke, Kurt Richard +2 more
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Theory-based communication skills training for medicine counter assistants to improve consultations for non-prescription medicines [PDF]
, 2007 Context: Medicine counter assistants (MCAs) supply the majority of non-prescription medicines (NPMs) to consumers. Suboptimal communication during consultations between consumers and MCAs has been identified as a major cause of inappropriate supply ...
Bond, Christine M. +4 more
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Jurnal Manajemen dan Pelayanan Farmasi, 2017 Praktek Kerja Profesi Apoteker adalah tahap penting untuk meningkatkan keterampilan pharmaceutical care mahasiswa. Tidaklah mudah bagi preseptor untuk menilai peningkatan kompetensi mahasiswa dalam waktu yang singkat, sehingga diperlukan key indicators ...
Bondan Ardiningtyas +3 more
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Are Hospital Pharmacies More Efficient if They Employ Nurses? [PDF]
This paper assesses the efficiency of utilizing nurses in Washington State hospital pharmacies. We take the perspective of a pharmacy department manager and model an input oriented hospital pharmacy production process.
Daniel L. Friesner +2 more
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