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Impact of a Pharmacist-Led Emergency Department Urinary Tract Infection Aftercare Program.
Fed Pract
September 2024
Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, California.
Background: Current evidence demonstrates that a significant proportion of prescriptions for antibiotics that originate from the emergency department (ED) are inappropriate. Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are a frequent indication for prescribing an antibiotic in the ED. The Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (VAGLAHS) piloted a pharmacistled ED aftercare program to promote appropriate antimicrobial management of outpatient UTIs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInterprofessional collaboration between pharmacists and community health workers: a scoping review.
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.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSelf-medication pattern among medical students in Middle Delta, Egypt.
BMC Med Educ
January 2025
Public Health and Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt.
Background: Self- medication leading to wastage of limited resources in developing countries, prolonged suffering, increase resistance to drugs and may result in significant medical complications such as adverse drug responses and dependence. Self-medication is extensively used by health professionals. Undergraduate medical students as being the future physicians representing a main pillar in health care system thus have special significance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn ethnography of General Practice inpatient discharge summary management for older patients.
Br J Gen Pract
January 2025
University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, United Kingdom.
Background: Post-inpatient discharge is a risky time for older patients, especially those with polypharmacy and multi-morbidity. General practice care at this time, including the processes for managing hospital discharge summaries, lacks standardisation and is of variable quality. Understanding these processes will support the design of interventions and guidance to improve general practice management of the post-discharge period.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImproving ADR reporting in Jordan: a qualitative exploration of pharmacists' perspectives.
Front Med (Lausanne)
January 2025
Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Clinical Pharmacy, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia.
Background: Community pharmacists are most accessible to patients. Hence, they have a crucial role in ensuring drug safety by detecting and reporting adverse drug reactions (ADRs). However, there may be gaps in their knowledge of ADR reporting systems and barriers they face in reporting.
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