Pharmacy Research: Recent submissions
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Pill-burden and its association with treatment burden among patients with advanced stages of chronic kidney disease
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Introduction: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with multimorbidity and high treatment burden. Pill-burden is one component of the overall treatment burden. However, little is known about its magnitude and ... -
Inappropriate polypharmacy management versus deprescribing: A review on their relationship
( John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2023 , Article Review)Medication burden and polypharmacy are highly prevalent among patients with multimorbidity. There have been multiple initiatives to overcome polypharmacy and medication burden in patients with multimorbidity. These initiatives ... -
Impact of Clinical Pharmacist Interventions on Economic Outcomes in a Cardiology Setting in Qatar
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)We sought to investigate the economic impact of preventing adverse events in a cardiology setting in Qatar as an effect of the clinical pharmacist as an intervention. This is a retrospective study of interventions by ... -
Economic impact of clinical pharmacist interventions in a general tertiary hospital in Qatar
( Public Library of Science , 2023 , Article)Background With an increasingly strained health system budgets, healthcare services need to continually demonstrate evidence of economic benefits. This study sought to evaluate the economic impact of interventions initiated ... -
Percutaneous Mitral-Valve Intervention for Secondary Mitral Regurgitation: Data From Real-Life
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article Review)Many questions were raised due to the divergent results between cardiovascular outcomes assessment of the MitraClip percutaneous therapy for heart failure patients with functional mitral regurgitation (COAPT) and multicenter ... -
Nanotargeted Delivery of Immune Therapeutics in Type 1 Diabetes
( John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2023 , Article)Immune therapeutics holds great promise in the treatment of type 1 diabetes (T1D). Nonetheless, their progress is hampered by limited efficacy, equipoise, or issues of safety. To address this, a novel and specific nanodelivery ... -
Deep Learning Technique for Congenital Heart Disease Detection Using Stacking-Based CNN-LSTM Models from Fetal Echocardiogram: A Pilot Study
( IEEE , 2023 , Article)Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are a leading cause of death in infants under 1 year of age. Prenatal intervention can reduce the risk of postnatal serious CHD patients, but current diagnosis is based on qualitative criteria, ... -
The impact of molecular tumor profiling on the design strategies for targeting myeloid leukemia and EGFR/CD44-positive solid tumors
(2021 , Article)Nanomedicine has emerged as a novel cancer treatment and diagnostic modality, whose design constantly evolves towards increasing the safety and efficacy of the chemotherapeutic and diagnostic protocols. Molecular diagnostics, ... -
Influence of the Extraction Solvent and of the Altitude on the Anticancer Activity of Lebanese Eucalyptus camaldulensis Extract Alone or in Combination with Low Dose of Cisplatin in A549 Human Lung Adenocarcinoma Cells
( MDPI , 2022 , Article)Background: Lung cancer is the second most common cancer worldwide. Eucalyptus plant extract has been shown to have anti-neoplastic effects. We investigated the antitumor effect of ethanolic and aqueous extracts of Eucalyptus ... -
Perceptions of Yemeni physicians about sources of drug information and factors predicting their choices
( Open Science Publishers LLP , 2021 , Article)High-quality information is a necessary prerequisite for an optimum prescribing decision that enhances patient healthcare outcomes. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify the main sources of information used ... -
A systematic meta-ethnographic review of the beneficial outcomes of international internships to student pharmacists
( AACP , 2017 , Article)Objective. To describe the benefits that pharmacy students gain by completing international internships as a part of their pharmacy education. Methods. A systematic literature search was conducted from database inception ... -
Contemporary professional skills development for pharmacists in the middle east
( AACP , 2017 , Article)Objective. To determine professional skills development and its utility among the “bridge” curriculum for undergraduate and graduate students in the Middle East. Methods. Qatar University College of Pharmacy offers a ... -
Targeting cancer signaling pathways by natural products: Exploring promising anti-cancer agents
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article Review)Cancer is one of the leading causes of death and significantly burdens the healthcare system. Due to its prevalence, there is undoubtedly an unmet need to discover novel anticancer drugs. The use of natural products as ... -
Comparative efficacy and safety among high-intensity statins. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
( Becaris Publishing , 2023 , Article)Aim: To summarize the evidence in terms of efficacy and safety of head-to-head studies of high-intensity statins regardless of the underlying population. Materials & methods: A systematic review and meta-analysis was ... -
Disaster Management and Preparedness among Future Jordanian Health Professionals: Exploring Knowledge, Attitude, and Readiness to Practice
(2022 , Article)Healthcare students as volunteers and future healthcare providers must be prepared to manage disasters. Disasters occurred worldwide and are highly prevalent in the recent time. We examined the level of knowledge (K), ... -
Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned from Qatar University College of Pharmacy
( PKP , 2020 , Article)The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a global emergency in all social realms including, economy, health, and education. In this article, we discuss the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on education, particularly higher education ... -
A SWOC analysis on the impact of COVID-19 through pharmacy student leaders’ perspectives
( PKP , 2020 , Article)The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruptions in many aspects of life across the globe including education provision. This pandemic led to major and rapid restructuring of curricula and assessments as student suddenly moved ... -
Improving the quality of publications in and advancing the paradigms of clinical and social pharmacy practice research: The Granada statements
( springer link , 2023 , Article)Pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences embrace a series of different disciplines. Pharmacy practice has been defined as “the scientific discipline that studies the different aspects of the practice of pharmacy and its impact ... -
Characteristics of the clinical pharmacist interventions at the National Center for Cancer Care and Research Hospital in Qatar
( SAGE Publications Ltd , 2023 , Article)Introduction Drug-related problems (DRPs) affect the health outcomes of patients during hospitalization. We sought to analyze the clinical pharmacist-documented interventions among hospitalized patients in the cancer ... -
Investigating physicians' views on non-formulary prescribing: a qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2023 , Article)Background: Well-designed and well-maintained drug formularies serve as a reliable resource to guide prescribing decisions; they are associated with improved medicine safety and increased efficiency, while also serving as ...
