College of Pharmacy: Recent submissions
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Using the potentials of community pharmacies to promote rational drug use in Pakistan: An opportunity exists or lost?
(2012 , Article)Keeping in view the importance of community pharmacies and their outreach to the patients, many developing countries have used their potential to promote safe and effective treatments by building their dispensing practices. ... -
Mothers' knowledge, attitude and practice regarding diarrhea and its management in morang nepal: An interventional study
(2012 , Article)Purpose: To assess diarrhea-related knowledge, attitude and practice through successive educational interventions. Methods: This was an interventional study conducted at nine different locations of Morang district, Nepal ... -
Impact of educational intervention on knowledge of dispensers working at community pharmacies in Pakistan
( Grupo de Investigacion en Atencion Farmaceutica , 2013 , Article)Objective: To evaluate the impact of training of dispensers on knowledge of dispensers working at community pharmacies in context to storage temperature, prescription terminologies and status of medicines in Islamabad, ... -
Determination of the main factors contributing to increases in medicine expenditures for the National Health Insurance Fund in Sudan
( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2013 , Article)Objectives: To assess the main factors that contributed to the increase in medicine expenditure of the National Health Insurance Fund in Sudan in the period 2006-2010. Methods: A time-series decomposition analysis was ... -
Counterfeit drug demand: Perceptions of policy makers and community pharmacists in Sudan
(2013 , Article)Background: The counterfeit drug trade has become widespread and has developed into a substantial threat to both the public's health and the pharmaceutical industry. Objectives: The aim of this study was to seek insights ... -
Assessment of disease management of insomnia at community pharmacies through simulated visits in Pakistan
( Grupo de Investigacion en Atencion Farmaceutica , 2013 , Article)Objective: The study aimed to document the state of insomnia management at community pharmacies in Pakistan. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at randomly selected 371 pharmacies in three cities of Pakistan. ... -
Factors determining the post-patent entry of generic medicines in Malaysia: A survey of the Malaysian generic pharmaceutical industry
(2013 , Article)Malaysia is reliant on the availability of generic medicines to contain the rising national pharmaceutical expenditure. This paper assesses the factors determining the market entry of a new generic medicine following patent ... -
Time to entry of generic medicines in Malaysia: Implications for pharmaceutical cost containment
( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2013 , Article)Objectives: Generic medicine availability is crucial for maintaining the Malaysian heavily subsidised public healthcare system, and for reducing rising national pharmaceutical expenditure. This paper analyses the time to ... -
Effect of delay in diagnosis on the rate of tuberculosis among close contacts of tuberculosis patients
( World Health Organization , 2013 , Article)Few studies have explored diagnosis delay by tuberculosis (TB) patients and its effects on the rate of infection among their close contacts. A cross-sectional study of the close contacts of 505 newly diagnosed TB patients ... -
Do community pharmacists in Nepal have a role in adverse drug reaction reporting systems?
(2013 , Article)Community pharmacies in Nepal serve both rural and urban populations and are an integral part of the Nepalese healthcare system. These community pharmacies are run by non-pharmacist professionals with orientation training ... -
Letters To The Editor: Do community pharmacists in Qatar practice rationally for a minor ailment?
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Stages of change and health-related quality of life among employees of an institution
(2013 , Article)Background Transtheoretical Model of change has been used successfully in promoting behaviour change. Objective To examine the relationships between health-related quality of life (HRQoL) scores with the stages of change ... -
Is there a need for a formulary of clinically interchangeable medicines to guide generic substitution in Saudi Arabia?
(2013 , Article)The escalating healthcare expenditure is a major challenge to sustainability of the healthcare systems. To confront the escalating health expenditure in general and medicines expenditure in particular, many countries ... -
Scale development on consumer behavior toward counterfeit drugs in a developing country: A quantitative study exploiting the tools of an evolving paradigm
(2013 , Article)Background: Although desperate need and drug counterfeiting are linked in developing countries, little research has been carried out to address this link, and there is a lack of proper tools and methodology. This study ... -
Physicians' perceptions of medical representative visits in Yemen: A qualitative study
(2013 , Article)Background: The pharmaceutical industry invests heavily in promotion, and it uses a variety of promotional strategies to influence physicians' prescribing decisions. Within this context, medical representatives (MRs) are ... -
Further steps in the development of pharmacoeconomics, outcomes research, and health technology assessment in central and Eastern Europe, Western Asia, and Africa
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The role of healthcare professionals in establishing unhealthy pharmaceutical promotion activities in Yemen
(2013 , Article)Background: Recently, the relationship between healthcare professionals and pharmaceutical companies has been given considerable attention worldwide and has been criticised with the companies being blamed for corrupting ... -
The impact of Indonesian generic medicine pricing policy on medicine prices
( SAGE Publications Ltd , 2013 , Article)Introduction: The government of Indonesia has established a commitment to the provision of affordable medicines. The retail price of unbranded generic cannot exceed the maximum retail price set by the Ministry of Health. ... -
Dispensing practices of general practitioners and community pharmacists in Malaysia-A pilot study
( Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia , 2013 , Article)Background In Malaysia, general practitioners (GPs) in private clinics are legally permitted to dispense medicines. Aim To compare the dispensing practices of community pharmacists and GPs in private clinics. Met ... -
A case report from Nepalese community pharmacy on levofloxacin induced severe abdominal pain
(2013 , Article)A 46-year-old female patient developed severe abdominal pain shortly after taking levofloxacin, 1000. mg for acute bacterial sinusitis. The pain started after taking the first dose of levofloxacin and became worse after ...
