[Patient safety during the dispensing service in community pharmacies in the event of a prescribing error. A case report].

A 63-year-old patient, diagnosed with diabetes, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia, with myocardial infarction background who takes 9 different medications. She goes to the Community Pharmacy (CP) to pick up the prescribed treatment from the Emergency Department to treat a diagnosed conjunctivitis.During the Dispensing Service, a potential Drug-Related Problem (DRP) of prescription error is detected, which could be related with a Negative Outcomes Related to Medicines (NOM) when prescribing ear drops for ophthalmic use, compromising patient safety .

[Medication Review with Follow-up Service provided by the Community Pharmacy as a care practice for the optimization of pharmacotherapy in patient with urticaria and pruritus].

A 66-year-old woman, ex-smoker, diagnosed with hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, asthma, anxiety and migraine, who presented pruritus and urticaria, was given Medication Review with Follow-Up Service (MRF). She was taking 5 medications.After the review of the pharmacotherapy and conducting an in-depth interview, the presence of pruritus and urticaria was determined as a Negative Outcomes Releated to Medicines (NOM) and a Drug Related Problem (DRP) derived from the use of Rosuvastatin/Ezetimibe, and a possible DRPs of probability of adverse effects and prescription error.

[Strategy to optimize patient safety in the community pharmacy dispensing service. Proposed checklists].

Dispensing is the most requested and important service within the tasks performed by the pharmacist, in his day-to-day work, in the community pharmacy. The aim of dispensing is to guarantee the patient's access to the medicine in an adequate and controlled manner. During that process, the community pharmacist has the obligation, as a healthcare professional, to actively participate in a committed manner in the detection of possible medication or medication-related errors.