Drug dispensing in public community pharmacies: evidence from the MedMinas project.

Background: Drug dispensing is a service provided by pharmacists to ensure the supply of medications and other health-related products. However, despite the importance of dispensing services, Public Community Pharmacies (PCP) in Brazil still focus on the control and distribution of medicines and supplies. Thus, this paper aims to evaluate how the pharmacists in charge conduct and the challenges they encounter in dispensing services in PCP.

Teaching Strategies for Professional Identity Education in Pharmacy: A Scoping Review.

Objectives: To characterize which strategies of professional identity formation and professionalism are being used in Pharmacy.

Findings: We gathered 5004 articles from 5 databases with the descriptors "pharmacy" "professionalism," "professional identity" and their synonyms. The professional identity is a set of values and behaviors common among professionals.

Evaluation of pharmacist's practices regarding the antimicrobials dispensing: a simulated patient study.

Background: The indiscriminate use of antimicrobials is considered a major contributing factor to the increase in antimicrobial resistance. Community pharmacies are the main source of access to antimicrobials, and pharmacists are in a strategic position to promote rational use of these medicines. Therefore, it is important to know dispensing service quality.

Digital pharmacists: the new wave in pharmacy practice and education.

Pharmacists now face the biggest challenges in the history of the profession: the use of digital technologies in pharmacy practice and education and the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019. Worldwide, pharmaceutical care and pharmacy education via digital technologies have significantly increased and will be incorporated into patient care and the teaching-learning process, respectively. Thus, in this new era of pharmacy practice and education, curricula should promote the development of specific competencies for the cognitive, conscious, and effective use of digital tools.

An Overview of the Methodologies and the Quality of Studies on Pharmacotherapy for the Treatment of Fibromyalgia.

Background: It is often unclear whether systematic reviews and primary studies are de-signed to elucidate the efficacy or effectiveness of interventions. This may compromise the use of the information in clinical or policy decisions.

Objective: This overview aimed to evaluate the methodological profiles of studies on fibromyalgia pharmacotherapy in terms of the quality and nature of the interventions (efficacy versus effective-ness).

Effect of pharmacists' interventions on health outcomes of children with asthma: A systematic review.

Methods: A literature search was performed in January 23, 2018 at the Embase, LILACS, OpenThesis, PubMed, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science databases through January 23, 2018, using keywords related to "asthma," "pharmacist," and "children." This systematic review followed the methodologic standards recommended by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. We included intervention studies on the effect of pharmacists' interventions on pediatric patients with asthma, performed in hospital or ambulatory care settings, with presenting process and outcome indicators as a result of pharmacists' interventions.

Using Virtual Patient Software to Improve Pharmacy Students' Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Geriatric Patients.

To evaluate the effect of using a virtual patient software program to improve pharmacy students' knowledge of and attitudes toward geriatric patients. The Virtual Patient for Geriatric Education (VIPAGE) software program was used in two Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm) degree programs in Brazilian universities. The virtual consultations were divided into an initial evaluation, care plan, letter of referral to another professional, and evaluation of follow-up.

Evaluation of process indicators of a medication review service between pharmacists and physicians.

Rationale, Aims And Objectives: Literature have showed inconclusive or contradictory results regarding medication review services effectiveness in optimizing process indicators. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the process indicators of a medication review service between pharmacists and physicians.

Method: This quasi-experimental study was conducted between March 2013 and February 2014 with patients who were receiving care in a medication review service in a teaching hospital in northeastern Brazil.

Are Clinical Outcomes Associated With Medication Regimen Complexity? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Current evidence of the influence of the medication regimen complexity (MRC) on the patients' clinical outcomes are not conclusive. To systematically and analytically assess the association between MRC measured by the Medication Regimen Complexity Index (MRCI) and clinical outcomes. A search was carried out in the databases Cochrane Library, LILACS, PubMed, Scopus, EMBASE, Open Thesis, and Web of Science to identify studies evaluating the association between MRC and clinical outcomes that were published from January 1, 2004, to April 2, 2018.

Factors influencing the implementation of clinical pharmacy services for hospitalized patients: A mixed-methods systematic review.

Background: Despite the evidence of benefits, clinical pharmacy services (CPS) are not uniformly implemented across healthcare institutions. Understanding the influencing factors and identifying the domains in which they act is the first step to a successful implementation.

Objective: To identify the factors that affect the implementation of CPS for inpatients and to categorize them.

Pharmacist-participated medication review in different practice settings: Service or intervention? An overview of systematic reviews.

Introduction: Medication review (MR) is a pharmacy practice conducted in different settings that has a positive impact on patient health outcomes. In this context, systematic reviews on MR have restricted the assessment of this practice using criteria such as methodological quality, practice settings, and patient outcomes. Therefore, expanding research on this subject is necessary to facilitate the understanding of the effectiveness of MR and the comparison of its results.