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How pharmacists can help combat polypharmacy in frail elderly patients Subscription
The NHS Highland Polypharmacy Action Group has developed a guideline to help reduce polypharmacy and the potential for adverse events.
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Improving patient safety at discharge Subscription
Pharmacists’ contribution to patient care and safety while authorising (clinically checking) discharge prescriptions was audited at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
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How to reduce wastage of prescribed drugs — clues from the Isle of Wight Subscription
The annual cost of wasted medicines is estimated at £300m in England from a budget of £8,100m. In the Isle of Wight, out of £23m worth of medicines prescribed, around £1m worth is returned to pharmacies for disposal each year, which costs a further £36,000.
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An investigation into the practices of community pharmacists in relation to smoking cessation advice Subscription
This paper aims to investigate current practices of community pharmacists in relation to smoking cessation advice and to explore the reasons for differences in approaches to recruitment of clients and outcomes.
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Managing performance concerns in pharmacists: results from surveys of primary care and hospital trusts in England Subscription
This paper aims to explore how NHS primary care trusts and hospital trusts in England deal with performance concerns about pharmacists.
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Can a partnership programme of support help to empower pharmacists to initiate or increase the number of patient medicines use reviews? Subscription
This paper aims to educate, motivate and support community pharmacists to increase the number of asthma medicines use reviews (MURs).
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Would adopting a quality and outcomes framework improve the standard of medicines use reviews in community pharmacy? Subscription
This paper aims to evaluate pharmacists’ opinions on the use of a quality and outcomes framework (QOF) as a tool to improve the standard of medicines use reviews (MURs), using an asthma checklist as an example of a possible proposed quality and outcomes framework.
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An audit of therapeutic doses of low molecular weight heparins Subscription
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An exploration of how well final-year pharmacy students understand professionalism Subscription
This study aims to explore final year (year 4) United Kingdom pharmacy student views on professionalism. Two focus groups were conducted with year 4 students at the University of Wolverhampton during the last semester of the course.
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Pharmacist interventions are crucial to increase drug efficacy and thus improve patient recovery Subscription
In hospitals, pharmacist interventions are vital for correcting prescribing errors, thereby increasing patient therapeutic benefit. To provide an optimal service, adequate pharmacy staffing levels need to be achieved.
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