International journal of clinical pharmacy
-
The aim of this study was to develop and validate a questionnaire for assessing HIV-infected patients' satisfaction with pharmaceutical care received in Nigerian HIV clinics. ⋯ The questionnaire developed is a reliable and valid instrument for assessing patient satisfaction with pharmaceutical care in HIV clinics in Nigeria. Further research is needed to expand the instruments' robustness.
-
Data concerning the extent of off-label prescriptions for adult neurological patients are limited, and the method of assessing supporting evidence in previous studies has some limitations. ⋯ The improved method provided a supplementary way to study off-label uses. Off-label prescriptions for adult neurological patients mainly concerned unapproved indications, nervous system agents and cerebrovascular diseases, and many of them had inferior level of evidence.
-
Clinical pharmacy in a hospital setting is relatively new in Sweden. Its recent introduction at the University Hospital in Uppsala has provided an opportunity for evaluation by other relevant professionals of the integration of clinical pharmacists into the health-care team. ⋯ The majority of the respondents, both GPs and hospital based physicians and nurses, were satisfied with the new collaboration with the ward based pharmacists and perceived that the quality of the patients' drug therapy and drug-related patient safety had increased.
-
There is a need to expand clinical pharmacy services to cover the ambulatory pediatric cancer patients. There is a paucity of published literature describing pharmacy services in this setting. ⋯ Developing pediatric hematology-oncology clinical pharmacy services to cover the outpatient setting is essential to ensure continuity of care and to optimize therapeutics.
-
With increasing deregulation of prescription-only medicines and drive for self-care, pharmacists have greater scope to manage more conditions. This brings added responsibility to be competent healthcare professionals who deliver high quality evidence-based patient care. ⋯ Safety was the primary concern when making decisions about over-the counter medicines. Pharmacists lacked knowledge of evidence-based practice and considered medicines which lacked evidence of effectiveness to have an important role in self-care. These factors present barriers to the widespread implementation of evidence-based practice.