Retinal Ganglion Cell Topography in Patients With Visual Pathway Pathology.

Background: To investigate and quantify the impact of intracranial lesions at different locations within the visual pathway on the ganglion cell layer-inner plexiform layer (GCL-IPL) complex and the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL).

Methods: Patients with intracranial lesions affecting the optic chiasm (Group I) or the optic tract and/or lateral geniculate nucleus (Group II) were included. All patients received kinetic visual field assessment and underwent spectral domain optical coherence tomography.

Needs and use of drug information sources in community pharmacies: a questionnaire based survey in German-speaking Switzerland.

Objectives: To explore the types of drug information used by pharmacists in daily practice, their needs and wishes concerning drug information and their opinions about future changes of pharmacy practice.

Methods: Postal survey to a random sample of 223 (26% out of 859) community pharmacies from the German-speaking part of Switzerland. The 48-item questionnaires were processed automatically with the Cardiff TELEform-Software.

Swiss community pharmacies' on the Web and pharmacists' experiences with E-commerce: longitudinal study and Internet-based questionnaire survey.

Background: There are multiple ways in which community pharmacies can present themselves on the Internet, e.g., as a platform for drug information or as an advertising platform for their services.