Abstract: Background: Despite the increasing complexity of medication therapies and the expansion of pharmaceutical clinical services to optimize patient care working in collaboration with physici

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Abstract: Background: Vancomycin is used primarily for Gram-positive infections. Recommended dosage regimens and targeted therapeutic levels vary between institutions.Objectives: This study aims to describe therapeutic levels according to initial vancomycin doses and p

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Abstract: Objective: To assess patients’ attitudes towards the community pharmacist’s role and determine their negative and positive reactions towards community pharmacists in Lebanon.Methods: A cross-sectional study, conducted between January and April 2016, was desig

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Abstract: Objectives: To evaluate the impact of a pharmacy-technician centered medication reconciliation (PTMR) program by identifying and quantifying medication discrepancies and outcomes of pharmacist medication reconciliation recommendations.Methods: A retrospective

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Abstract: Background: Inadequate health literacy in adults is a nationwide issue that is associated with worse health outcomes. There is a paucity of literacy regarding rates of inadequate health literacy in psychiatric populations.Objective: The aim of the study was t

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Abstract: Background: Cardiovascular disease is a major health concern around the world.Objective: To assess the outcomes and feasibility of a pharmacy-based cardiovascular screening in an urban referral community pharmacy in Iran.Methods: A cro

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Abstract: Objective: To explore influences of co-investigators on the successful publication of a pharmacy residency project.Methods: We analyzed published and non-published research presented at a regional pharmacy conference. Abstracts were matched 1:1 based on state

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Abstract: Objective: The present study was aimed to evaluate the practices and attitudes of young Malaysian adults towards the use of antibiotics, and to determine the socioeconomic factors associated with the antibiotic use.Methods: A survey was carried in Cheras comm

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Abstract: Background: Medication education is vital for positive patient outcomes. However, there is limited information about optimal medication education by nurses during hospitalization and care transitions.Objective: Examine nurses’ attitudes and behaviors regardin

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Abstract: Background: The provision of professional pharmacy services by community pharmacists continues to be limited, particularly in low and middle income countries. It was postulated that multiple management challenges faced by community pharmacists contribute to t

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Abstract: Objectives: The purpose of this study was to describe the rate of medication short-term supply dispensings (tider), patient and medication characteristics associated with a tider, and costs for tider dispensings in an integrated healthcare delivery system in

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Abstract: Objective: To assess the feasibility of clinical pharmacist-led CYP2C19 genotype-guided P2Y12 inhibitor antiplatelet drug therapy recommendations to cardiologists in an outpatient cardiology practice.Methods: This was a prospective, open-labeled, single-arm s

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Abstract: Background: Many institutions have guidelines for initiation and monitoring, but not timing, of vancomycin.Objective: Our objective was to evaluate vancomycin trough collection appropriateness before and after an initiative to change the dosing and trough col

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Abstract: To date, research on the prescribing decisions of physician lacks sound theoretical foundations. In fact, drug prescribing by doctors is a complex phenomenon influenced by various factors. Most of the existing studies in the area of drug prescription explain

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