Deprescribing: An umbrella review.

This umbrella review examined systematic reviews of deprescribing studies by characteristics of intervention, population, medicine, and setting. Clinical and humanistic outcomes, barriers and facilitators, and tools for deprescribing are presented. The Medline database was used.

Translation and validation of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q47) into the Slovenian language.

Background: The European Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q47) is a self-assessment tool for standardised measurement of health literacy.

Aim: To translate HLS-EU-Q47 into the Slovenian language and to investigate its reliability and validity in Slovenia.

Method: HLS-EU-Q47 was translated into Slovenian, back-translated, and subjected to a pilot test.

Development, validation and performance of a newly designed tool to evaluate functional medication literacy in Slovenia.

Background Medication literacy refers to the ability of individuals to safely and appropriately access, understand and act on basic medication information. It is vital for correctly and safely using medications. General health literacy measures do not adequately address specific skills for medication literacy, and there are no general, self-administered, performance-based instruments for assessing patients' medication literacy.

Community pharmacist-led medication review procedures across Europe: Characterization, implementation and remuneration.

Background: Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe (PCNE) proposed a definition and classification system (type 1, 2a, 2b, 3) for medication review in 2016. However, to date, a description of the implementation and remuneration of such procedures across Europe is lacking.

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the medication review procedures and the level of implementation and remuneration in community pharmacies across Europe.

A survey to assess the availability, implementation rate and remuneration of pharmacist-led cognitive services throughout Europe.

Background: Pharmacist-led cognitive services (PLCS) are increasingly necessary in primary care as a response to patient-centered care. However, the implementation rate and remuneration models of PLCS are either absent or superficially described in the literature.

Objective: The aim of this study is to review the implementation of PLCS in primary care across Europe and explore the associated third-party paid remuneration models.

PCNE definition of medication review: reaching agreement.

Background Medication review is important in an era, in which polypharmacy is increasing. To date, no agreed international definition of medication review exists. Objective The aim was to reach agreement on an internationally applicable definition of medication review.

Medication adherence and health-related quality of life among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

This study evaluated medication adherence and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of Slovenian patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and examined the factors associated with HRQoL. Demographic and therapy information was collected from 65 patients through interviews. The St.

Curriculum Mapping of the Master's Program in Pharmacy in Slovenia with the PHAR-QA Competency Framework.

This article presents the results of mapping the Slovenian pharmacy curriculum to evaluate the adequacy of the recently developed and validated European Pharmacy Competences Framework (EPCF). The mapping was carried out and evaluated progressively by seven members of the teaching staff at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Pharmacy. Consensus was achieved by using a two-round modified Delphi technique to evaluate the coverage of competences in the current curriculum.

Clinically relevant potential drug-drug interactions among outpatients: A nationwide database study.

Background: Adverse drug events due to drug-drug interactions (DDIs) represent a considerable public health burden, also in Slovenia. A better understanding of the most frequently occurring potential DDIs may enable safer pharmacotherapy and minimize drug-related problems.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and predictors of potential DDIs among outpatients in Slovenia.

Development and validation of the Slovenian drug-related problem classification system based on the PCNE classification V 6.2.

Background Classifying drug-related problems increases pharmacists' awareness of patients' drug-related needs and supports the development of counselling skills through increased awareness of the nature and frequency of drug-related problems. No standardised classification system was used in daily pharmacy practice in Slovenia. Objective To translate, upgrade and validate the Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe (PCNE) classification V 6.

Contribution of Slovenian community pharmacist counseling to patients' knowledge about their prescription medicines: a cross-sectional study.

Aim: To assess patients' knowledge about prescription medicines they are taking and their view on how much community pharmacist counseling contributed to their knowledge.

Methods: An observational study was designed to obtain information about patients' knowledge, their view on pharmacist counseling, and physicians'/pharmacists' provision of information. This study used a specifically designed questionnaire, which served as an interview guide.

Using the simulated patient methodology to assess paracetamol-related counselling for headache.

Objectives: Firstly, to assess paracetamol-related counselling. Secondly, to evaluate the patient's approach as a determinant of counselling and to test the acceptability of the simulated patient method in Slovenian pharmacies.

Methods: The simulated patient methodology was used in 17 community pharmacies.

Slovenian pharmacy performance: a patient-centred approach to patient satisfaction survey content development.

Objective: To identify content of pharmacy performance relevant to patient satisfaction.

Setting: Interviews with pharmacy users were conducted at their homes. The Delphi meeting was run at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Development and initial validation of a patient satisfaction with pharmacy performance questionnaire (PSPP-Q).

The objective of this study was to develop a psychometrically valid, multidimensional, self-administered, general questionnaire measuring patient satisfaction with pharmacy performance for outpatients. A multiphase development process was employed to attain this goal. In Phase I, questionnaire's content was generated using interviews with pharmacy users regarding their experiences and expectations relating to pharmacies.