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The Role of Mail Service Pharmacies

Health Affairs, 1990
Prologue: The escalating costs of prescription drugs and competition among pharmaceutical firms for customers are drawing the attention of policymakers, pharmacies, and individual and institutional purchasers. Mail order pharmacies recently have grown in prominence as a competitive alternative to the local community pharmacy.
Leslye Fitterman, David Knapp, Brigid Goody, Constance M. Horgan   +3 more
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Exploring relationships among pharmacy service use, patronage motives, and patient satisfaction.

Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 2013
OBJECTIVES To describe and identify significant relationships among pharmacy service use, general and service-specific patient satisfaction, pharmacy patronage motives, and marketing awareness in a service-oriented, independent community pharmacy ...
Brandon J Patterson, W. Doucette, J. Urmie, R. McDonough   +3 more
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Community Pharmacy Services in Portugal

Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 2006
Objective: To describe the status and outline the trends of community pharmacy services in the Portuguese healthcare system. Findings: The legal framework for Portuguese pharmacies includes geographic and demographic criteria for opening pharmacies and restricting ownership to pharmacists.
João Silveira, Cristina Santos, Suzete Costa   +2 more
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Pharmacy Services and the Novel Coronavirus

The Senior Care Pharmacist, 2020
Pharmacists around the world can expect to be affected by the coronavirus, especially those who provide care for older people who are at a much higher risk for grave consequences from the virus. It is critical that pharmacists maintain awareness of the evolving pandemic and access reliable information to remain familiar with developments.
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The Structure of Satisfaction with Pharmacy Services

Medical Care, 1998
The objectives of this investigation were to evaluate the dimensional structure of satisfaction with pharmacy services, to determine whether satisfaction is best viewed as a unidimensional or multidimensional construct, and to determine the degree of correspondence between a general satisfaction scale and satisfaction with specific aspects of pharmacy ...
Stephen Joel Coons, Ron D. Hays, Jeffrey A. Johnson   +2 more
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AN EVALUATION OF A WARD PHARMACY SERVICE

Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 1981
An evaluation of a ward pharmacy service showed: 1. Its introduction led to a 40-50% reduction in errors and ambiguities of prescribing. 2. It assisted in the safe and more effective use of medicines in hospitals. 3. Medical staff particularly valued the safety checking applied to their prescriptions and the patient's total medication profile, and the ...
D. Butler, C. Feetam, R. H. Leach
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Implementing a pharmacy resident run transition of care service for heart failure patients: Effect on readmission rates.

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2015
OBJECTIVE Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of hospital readmissions adversely affecting resources and hospital reimbursements. The purpose of this study was to optimize medication therapy, provide patient education and facilitate discharge and ...
Cristina M Salas, Marta A. Miyares
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Community pharmacy service users' views and perceptions of alcohol screening and brief intervention.

Drug and Alcohol Review, 2010
INTRODUCTION AND AIMS Community pharmacists have the potential to deliver alcohol screening and brief interventions (SBI) to pharmacy users. However, little is known if SBI would be utilised and views of people who might use the service.
R. Dhital, C. Whittlesea, I. Norman, P. Milligan   +3 more
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Implementation of a pharmacogenomics service in a community pharmacy.

Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 2014
OBJECTIVE To determine the feasibility of implementing a pharmacogenomics service in a community pharmacy. SETTING A single community pharmacy that is part of a regional chain known for offering innovative pharmacy services.
S. Ferreri, Angelo J. Greco, Natasha M. Michaels, Shanna K. O’Connor, R. Chater, A. Viera, H. Faruki, H. McLeod, Mary W. Roederer   +8 more
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Clinical Pharmacy Services in Hospitals Educating Pharmacy Students

Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy, 1998
In 1995 we conducted a national survey of 1102 acute care hospitals in the United States to determine types of clinical pharmacy services, patient‐focused care, and pharmaceutical care used to educate and train pharmacy students, and compared outcomes with surveys in 1989 and 1992.
Michael E. Pitterle, C. A. Bond, Cynthia L. Raehl   +2 more
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