Issue 6/2008
Content (33 Articles)
First renin inhibitor, aliskiren, for the treatment of hypertension
Darren M. Triller, Samuel D. Evang, Mina Tadrous, Bong Kyu Yoo
Physicians, pharmacists, and people with diabetes in India
R. Padmaja Kumari, Rajiv Raman, Tarun Sharma
Five-year follow-up of drug utilization for secondary prevention in coronary artery disease
Sule Apikoglu Rabus, Fikret V. Izzettin, Mesut Sancar, Osman Karakaya, Ramazan Kargin, Cevat Yakut
User satisfaction with services provided by a drug information center in Sudan
Ahmed Ibrahim Fathelrahman, Rahmat Awang, Abdelgadir Ali Bashir, Isam Ali M. Taha, Hind Musa Ibrahim
Patient sources for drug information in Iran: A questionnaire-based survey
Forouz Nader, Kazem Mousavizadeh, Pedram Ghafourifar
Drug-related problems: evaluation of a classification system in the daily practice of a Swiss University Hospital
Markus L. Lampert, Stephan Kraehenbuehl, Balthasar L. Hug
Practical evaluation of the drug-related problem management process in Swiss community pharmacies
Jean-Marc Krähenbühl, Bertha Kremer, Bertrand Guignard, Olivier Bugnon
Influencing the use of antibiotics in a Chinese pediatric intensive care unit
Hui Ding, Yonghong Yang, Jinghai Wei, Shaozhen Fan, Sangjie Yu, Kaihu Yao, Aihua Wang, Xuzhuang Shen
The development of the Self-Medicating Scale (SMS): a scale to measure people’s beliefs about self-medication
Delyth H. James, David P. French
Views, attitudes and self-assessed training needs of Scottish community pharmacists to public health practice and competence
David E. Pfleger, Lorna W. McHattie, H. Lesley Diack, Dorothy J. McCaig, Derek C. Stewart
Post-discharge medication reviews for patients with heart failure: a pilot study
Anne Ponniah, Sepehr Shakib, Christopher J. Doecke, Merelyn Boyce, Manya Angley
Using the costs of drug therapy to screen patients for a community pharmacy-based medication review program
Jean-Marc Krähenbühl, Anne Decollogny, Olivier Bugnon
A system approach to dispensing errors: a national study on perceptions of the Finnish community pharmacists
Tuula Teinilä, Virpi Grönroos, Marja Airaksinen
Promotion of behavioural change in people with hypertension: an intervention study
Daniela Scala, Maria D’Avino, Santolo Cozzolino, Antonio Mancini, Barbara Andria, Giuseppe Caruso, Gianfranco Tajana, Domenico Caruso
Clinical outcomes from the use of Medication Report when elderly patients are discharged from hospital
Patrik Midlöv, Eva Deierborg, Lydia Holmdahl, Peter Höglund, Tommy Eriksson
Concordance-based adherence support service delivery: consumer perspectives
Sophie Du Pasquier, Parisa Aslani
Adverse-drug-reaction related admissions to a hospital in Scotland
Yvonne Hopf, Margaret Watson, David Williams
Analysis and quantification of self-medication patterns of customers in community pharmacies in southern Chile
Katherine Fuentes Albarrán, Lorenzo Villa Zapata
Pharmacist-initiated general practitioner referral of patients with suboptimal asthma management
Bonnie J. Bereznicki, Gregory M. Peterson, Shane L. Jackson, Haydn Walters, Kimbra Fitzmaurice, Peter Gee
Adherence to anti-diabetic drug therapy and self management practices among type-2 diabetics in Nigeria
Kazeem B. Yusuff, Olubunmi Obe, Bonatson Y. Joseph
Societal perspectives on the role of community pharmacists and over-the-counter drugs in Jordan
Mayyada Wazaify, Abla Al-Bsoul-Younes, Eman Abu-Gharbieh, Linda Tahaineh
Exploring patients’ perspectives of pharmacist supplementary prescribing in Scotland
Derek C. Stewart, Johnson George, Christine M. Bond, I. T. Scott Cunningham, H. Lesley Diack, Dorothy J. McCaig
The DARTS tool for assessing online medicines information
Ulla Närhi, Marika Pohjanoksa-Mäntylä, Anna Karjalainen, Johanna K. Saari, Hannes Wahlroos, Marja S. Airaksinen, Simon J. Bell
Prioritising the prevention of medication handling errors
Thilo Bertsche, Dorothee Niemann, Yvonne Mayer, Katrin Ingram, Torsten Hoppe-Tichy, Walter E. Haefeli
Vancomycin vs teicoplanin in the treatment of Gram-positive infections: a pharmacoeconomic analysis in a Turkish University Hospital
Aylin Acar Sancar, Selen Yegenoglu, Robin de Vries, Maarten J. Postma, Nimet Simsek, Petros Pechlivanoglou, Serhat Unal
Evaluation of a training and communication-network nephrology program for community pharmacists
Lyne Lalonde, Michelle Normandeau, Diane Lamarre, Anne Lord, Djamal Berbiche, Louise Corneille, Louis Prud’homme, Marie-Claude Laliberté
Dispensing of psychotropic drugs to adults in community pharmacies in Latvia
Kristine Vrublevska, Jurita Rukmane, Rihards Burmistrs, Janis Sipols, Ruta Muceniece
Consumer satisfaction with opioid treatment services at community pharmacies in Australia
Toby Lea, Janie Sheridan, Adam Winstock
Pharmacist intervention reduces gastropathy risk in patients using NSAIDs
Victoria Ibañez-Cuevas, Eduardo Lopez-Briz, M. Teresa Guardiola-Chorro