Impact of smoking cessation training for community pharmacists in Indonesia.

Background: Community pharmacists play an important role in tobacco control and adequate training on smoking cessation is essential.

Materials And Methods: A quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test design was used. A one-day workshop on smoking cessation organized by Indonesian Pharmacists Association as part of PCE program was offered to 133 community pharmacists.

Effectiveness of tobacco education for pharmacy students in Indonesia.

Background: Smoking remains the major preventable cause of death worldwide, especially cancer-related death. Evidence clearly indicates that tobacco-related morbidity and mortality is reduced by smoking cessation. Pharmacists are well-positioned to provide tobacco cessation services an involvement of pharmacists in smoking cessation is encouraged by several organizations.

Avian and pandemic human influenza policy in South-East Asia: the interface between economic and public health imperatives.

The aim of this study was to analyse the contemporary policies regarding avian and human pandemic influenza control in three South-East Asia countries: Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. An analysis of poultry vaccination policy was used to explore the broader policy of influenza A H5N1 control in the region. The policy of antiviral stockpiling with oseltamivir, a scarce regional resource, was used to explore human pandemic influenza preparedness policy.

Pattern of statins' utilization at Ramathobodi Hospital, 2005 to 2007.

Background: The use of statins at Ramathibodi, a teaching hospital, has been rising rapidly

Objective: Determine how price, volume, and drug mix (use of five brands and one generic) affect expenditure.

Material And Method: Dispensing records of the six statins were retrieved from database and analyzed for factors contributing to increased drug expense.

Results: Overall, statins' expenditure rose 35.

Pharmacist perceptions of new competency standards.

Objective: To suggest revisions to the Thai pharmacy competency standards and determine the perceptions of Thai pharmacy practitioners and faculty about the proposed pharmacy competency standards.

Methods: The current competency standards were revised by brainstorming session with nine Thai pharmacy experts according to their perceptions of society's pharmacy needs. The revised standards were proposed and validated by 574 pharmacy practitioners and faculty members by using a written questionnaire.

Cost-effectiveness analysis of thiazolidinediones in uncontrolled type 2 diabetic patients receiving sulfonylureas and metformin in Thailand.

Objective: The national essential drug committee in Thailand suggested that only one of thiazolidinediones be included in hospital formulary but little was know about their cost-effectiveness values. This study aims to determine an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of pioglitazone 45 mg compared with rosiglitazone 8 mg in uncontrolled type 2 diabetic patients receiving sulfonylureas and metformin in Thailand.

Methods: A Markov diabetes model (Center for Outcome Research model) was used in this study.

Evaluation of curricula content based on Thai pharmacy competency standards.

Objective: To evaluate the curricula content of Thai pharmacy schools based on the Thai pharmacy competency standards.

Methods: Course syllabi were collected from 11 pharmacy schools. A questionnaire was developed based on the Thai pharmacy competency standards.