Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Department of Veterinary Anatomy Physiology and Pathology, Institute of Infection Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Chester High Rd, Neston CH64 7TE, UK.
Laboratory of Bioanalysis, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Drug Analysis and Radiopharmacy, Medical University of Lodz, ul. Muszyńskiego 1, 90-151, Lodz, Poland; Department of Applied Pharmacy, Medical University of Lodz, ul. Muszyńskiego 1, 90-151, Lodz, Poland.
Despite the usefulness of assertiveness by healthcare professionals in improving patient safety, few studies have evaluated the assertiveness of community pharmacists. Community pharmacists' assertive...
Our objective was to examine which types of assertiveness-related self-expression are associated with community pharmacist-initiated prescribing changes while adjusting for possible confounding factor...
We conducted a cross-sectional survey in Japan between May and October 2022 in 10 prefectures. Community pharmacists belonging to a large pharmacy chain were recruited. The outcome variable was the fr...
Of 3346 community pharmacists invited, 963 were included in the analysis. Participants with high assertive self-expression scores had a significantly higher frequency of pharmacist-initiated prescript...
Higher assertive self-expression among community pharmacists is associated with higher frequency of pharmacist-initiated prescription changes....
Prescription-related errors and misinterpretation of oral cancer treatment instructions can lead to significant harm or fatal outcomes for patients. The impact of specialist pharmacist-led consultatio...
To evaluate the impact of specialist cancer pharmacist patient consultation in a pharmacist-led anticancer clinic across a range of cancer types and evaluate health service staff perceptions of these ...
Retrospective data were collected from electronic patient medical records from 2017 to 2020 at a Western Australian quaternary hospital. The impacts of pharmacist clinical interventions were classifie...
Of 246 patients reviewed, 76 (30.8%, p < .001) had received a clinical intervention of which 48 (63.2%) were classified as high-extreme and 28 (36.8%) as low-moderate impact (p = .021). Patients on ≥5...
Specialist pharmacist-led patient consultation for patients on OAM regimens may protect patients from high and extreme risk of harm. Specialist interdisciplinary staff supported this service....
Practice-based pharmacists (PBPs) have been introduced into general practice across the UK to relieve some of the pressures within primary care. However, there is little existing UK literature that ha...
To explore the views and experiences of GPs, PBPs, and community pharmacists (CPs) about PBPs' integration into general practice and their impact on primary healthcare delivery....
A qualitative interview study in primary care in Northern Ireland....
Purposive and snowball sampling were used to recruit triads (a GP, a PBP, and a CP) from across five administrative healthcare areas in Northern Ireland. Sampling of practices to recruit GPs and PBPs ...
Eleven triads were recruited from across the five administrative areas. Four main themes in relation to PBPs' integration into general practices were revealed: evolution of the role; PBP attributes; c...
Participants reported that PBPs had integrated well and perceived a positive impact on primary healthcare delivery. Further work is needed to increase patient awareness of the PBP role....
Pharmacists were acknowledged as the most appropriate healthcare professional to dispense mifepristone for medication abortion shortly after the prescription therapy became available in January 2017 i...
We aimed to identify the facilitators and barriers for successful initiation and ongoing dispensing of mifepristone among community pharmacists across Canada....
We surveyed community pharmacists from urban/rural practice settings across Canada by recruiting from January 2017 to January 2019 through pharmacist organisations, professional networks, at mifeprist...
Of the 433 responses from dispensing community pharmacists across 10/13 Canadian provinces and territories, 93.1% indicated they were willing and ready to dispense mifepristone. Key facilitators were ...
Pharmacist respondents from across Canada reported being able and willing to dispense mifepristone and rarely mentioned barriers to stocking/dispensing the medication in the community pharmacy setting...
Pharmacist prescribing is a growing reality in some developed counties, with varied health systems. Understanding the contribution that this activity can offer in the healthcare process, and investiga...
Opioid stewardship is one essential function of pain and palliative care pharmacists and a critical need in the United States. In recent years, this country has been plagued by two public health emerg...
No studies in Japan have examined whether dispensing by family pharmacists, who are incentivized by reimbursement to provide continuous and exclusive medication management, results in prescription cha...
We identified 333,503 records of pharmacy claims data from patients aged 65 years or older who received medication instructions at outpatient pharmacies at Tsukuba, a medium-sized city near Tokyo, bet...
Dispensing by family pharmacists was 1.37 times more likely to involve a record of prescription change than dispensing by non-family pharmacists. Older age, female sex, polypharmacy, and small-scale p...
This study indicated that dispensing by family pharmacists was a potential factor for pharmacist-initiated prescription changes that may prevent excessive medication and limit pharmacological interact...
Nasal colonization with methicillin-resistant...
The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of a pharmacist-driven algorithm, utilizing MRSA PCR nasal screening on duration of anti-MRSA therapy in patients admitted to the intensive care un...
A single-center pre/post study was conducted in 4 ICUs at a large tertiary care community hospital. Adult patients admitted to the ICU initiated on vancomycin or linezolid for pneumonia managed using ...
Of the 245 patients screened, 50 patients met inclusion criteria for the algorithm cohort and were matched to 50 patients in the historical cohort. The duration of anti-MRSA therapy was significantly ...
A pharmacist-driven MRSA PCR algorithm significantly reduced anti-MRSA duration of therapy in critically ill patients with pneumonia. Future studies should validate these results in critically ill pop...
Late-life depression often goes underdiagnosed and undertreated, affecting the quality of life of older adults. Pharmacists are well-placed to identify older adults who may be at risk of depression by...
To explore community pharmacists' acceptability of performing late-life depression screening in Australian community pharmacies....
Semi-structured interviews with community pharmacists were conducted to gauge their perceptions regarding delivering depression screening services for older adults. Data analysis was conducted using a...
Fifteen pharmacists were interviewed, 12 of whom were female and 11 of whom practised in a metropolitan area. Four key themes were identified including: training needs, environmental factors, pharmaci...
The findings of this study demonstrate that while community pharmacists found depression screening for older adults in community pharmacies to be an acceptable service, there remains a need for the de...
This study explores how pharmacists legitimise the expansion of their clinical work and considers its impact on pharmacists' professional identity work. In the context of pharmacy in the English NHS, ...
