Development of a community pharmacy-based intervention for patients with uncontrolled asthma
Background: Achieving asthma control is often difficult, despite the availability of effective medications. Because of their expertise, regular contact with patients, and accessibility, community pharmacists can play an important role in helping patients
Claudie Turcotte +6 more
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Older patients' prescriptions screening in the community pharmacy: development of the Ghent Older People's Prescriptions community Pharmacy Screening (GheOP3S) tool [PDF]
Background: Ageing of the population often leads to polypharmacy. Consequently, potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) becomes more frequent. Systematic screening for PIP in older patients in primary care could yield a large improvement in health ...
Boussery, Koen +5 more
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Community pharmacy as an effective teaching and learning environment: Student perspectives from a UK MPharm programme [PDF]
Introduction: In order to increase new pharmacists' preparedness for clinical practice, pharmacy education in the United Kingdom (UK) is moving towards a five-year integrated degree incorporating the pre-registration year into the undergraduate programme.
Bullen, Kathryn +2 more
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The objective of this cross-sectional survey was to determine community pharmacy employee research project priorities and assess interest levels, barriers, and facilitators to joining a new community pharmacy practice-based research network (PBRN) and ...
Lindsey V. Seel +2 more
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Professional practice of pharmacists in private community pharmacies of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Considering the wide accessibility of population to private community pharmacies, Pharmaceutical Services must be provided comprehensively in such establishments. This research aims to understand how pharmaceutical practice is developed by pharmacists in
Letícia Soares Melo Imbelloni +3 more
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Defining pharmacy and its practice: a conceptual model for an international audience [PDF]
Background: There is much fragmentation and little consensus in the use of descriptors for the different disciplines that make up the pharmacy sector. Globalization, reprofessionalization and the influx of other disciplines means there is a requirement ...
Atif, M. +2 more
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Pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences embrace a series of different disciplines. Pharmacy practice has been defined as “the scientific discipline that studies the different aspects of the practice of pharmacy and its impact on health care systems ...
Fernando Fernandez-Llimos +13 more
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A survey of pharmacists' perception of foundation level competencies in African countries [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Evidence from published literature in pharmacy practice research demonstrate that the use of competency frameworks alongside standards of practice facilitate improvement in professional performance and aid expertise development.
Bates, I, Bruno, A, Udoh, A
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The need for redesigned pharmacy practice courses in Pakistan: the perspectives of senior pharmacy students [PDF]
Purpose: In Pakistan, courses in pharmacy practice, which are an essential component of the PharmD curriculum, were launched with the aim of strengthening pharmacy practice overall and enabling pharmacy students to cope with the challenges involved in ...
Muhammad Umair Khan +5 more
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Social Pharmacy and Clinical Pharmacy—Joining Forces
This commentary seeks to define the areas of social pharmacy and clinical pharmacy to uncover what they have in common and what still sets them apart. Common threats and challenges of the two areas are reviewed in order to understand the forces in play ...
Anna Birna Almarsdottir +1 more
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