Impact of selected clinical pharmacy services on medication safety and prescription cost of patients attending a selected primary healthcare setting: a translational experience from a resource-limited country.

Purpose Of The Study: The impact of clinical pharmacy (CP) services on primary healthcare (PH) is less well studied in resource-limited countries. We aimed to evaluate the effect of selected CP services on medication safety and prescription cost at a PH setting in Sri Lanka.

Study Design: Patients attending a PH medical clinic with medications prescribed at the same visit were selected using systematic random sampling.

Impact of selected clinical pharmacy services on medication safety and prescription cost of patients attending a selected primary healthcare setting: a translational experience from a resource-limited country.

Purpose Of The Study: The impact of clinical pharmacy (CP) services on primary healthcare (PH) is less well studied in resource-limited countries. We aimed to evaluate the effect of selected CP services on medication safety and prescription cost at a PH setting in Sri Lanka.

Study Design: Patients attending a PH medical clinic with medications prescribed at the same visit were selected using systematic random sampling.

A national survey of antibacterial consumption in Sri Lanka.

Introduction: Optimizing the use of antibacterial medicines is an accepted strategy to combat the antibacterial resistance. Availability of reliable antibacterial consumption (ABC) data is a prerequisite to implement this strategy.

Objectives: To quantify and describe the national ABC in Sri Lanka and to examine any differences in the consumption between public and private sector.

Resistance and utilisation pattern of antibacterial agents in outpatient settings in two Teaching Hospitals in Colombo.

Objectives: Antibacterial resistance (ABR) is a public threat. Sri Lanka is a country with limited surveillance of ABR in the community. The WHO methodology was adapted to identify ABR in outpatient settings (nonhospitalised patients) and its link to consumption of antibiotics.