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Int J Equity Health
January 2025
School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Introduction: Community health workers (CHWs) help bridge the cultural gap between health services and the communities they serve. CHWs work with physicians, nurses and social workers, but little is known about their collaboration with pharmacists. This scoping review aims to describe the interprofessional collaboration between CHWs and pharmacists, the types of interventions they deliver and CHWs' and pharmacists' specific roles within these interventions.
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January 2025
Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Background: Doctors' unwillingness to share responsibility acts as a major barrier to interprofessional collaboration (IPC). Educating both doctors and allied health professionals in taking on or relinquishing responsibility could enhance IPC. Yet there is no evidence that these educational efforts increase IPC willingness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To identify the impact of introducing antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) ward rounds.
Methods: We used an interrupted time-series approach to investigate the impact of implementing AMS ward rounds with in-person feedback from a multi-disciplinary team in Hospital-1, also comparing to Hospital-2 in the same city where AMS ward rounds were not yet implemented. Regression models were used to identify predictors of advice given, whether advice was followed, and associations between advice uptake and length of stay.
Curr Pharm Teach Learn
January 2025
Department of Pharmacotherapeutics & Clinical Research, University of South Florida, Taneja College of Pharmacy, Tampa, FL, United States of America. Electronic address:
The histography of Black professional pharmacist associations has largely been ignored. During the Jim Crow era there existed multiple and overlapping spaces within which Black civic and professional voluntary organizations engaged in representation and advocacy, professional support and development, cultural competence, community engagement and education, research and innovation, and diversity and inclusion in the professions. One group that has received minimal to no attention is that of the role of Black professional pharmacy organizations.
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January 2025
Department of Pharmacotherapeutics & Clinical Research, University of South Florida, Taneja College of Pharmacy, Tampa, FL, USA. Electronic address:
The early participation of African Americans in professional pharmacy associations between the 1870s and the 1970s is explored. The early participation African American pharmacists in the national pharmacy organizations was limited to the American Pharmaceuticals Association (APhA), a small number of the APhA state and local affiliates, and the pharmaceutical section of the national and state Black medical associations. Little to no participation of African American pharmacists as members in other national organizations (e.
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