2025 December - 35 articles
This narrative review seeks to delve into the different on and off-label medications commonly used with intrathecal drug delivery systems (IDDS) and their clinical applications specifically in pain management settings. This review utilizes a variety...
The increasing use of multiple medications among older adults raises concerns about potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs), which are associated with adverse health outcomes and increased healthcare costs. This study aimed to assess the prevale...
Objective: This study aims to evaluate pharmacy students’ perceptions regarding the integration of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into pharmacy curricula, providing evidence to inform future curriculum development. Methods: A cross-...
The task of repackaging resident’s medication into medication organizers is increasingly outsourced from nursing homes to pharmacies, presenting an opportunity to redefine the interaction between nursing and pharmaceutical staff. This study inv...
Introduction: During pharmaceutical care, community pharmacists play a crucial role by carrying out interventions aimed at preventing, detecting, and resolving drug-related problems (DRPs) and negative outcomes associated with medication (NOM), simul...
The transition toward wide-scale use of single-dose administration systems such as prefilled syringes has primarily occurred in high-income countries due to economic considerations. This has resulted in a disparity of access to such technologies in l...
As one of the biggest challenges for healthcare in the 21st century, COVID-19 placed a sustained and intense demand on the European Medicines Agency’s resources and required constant adaptation and mobilization of different regulatory processes...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major global health burden. The fluticasone furoate (FF)/umeclidinium (UMEC)/vilanterol (VI) triple therapy provides new treatment, but its long-term real-world safety lacks evidence. A post-marketing...
Background: Telepharmacy consultations (TPCs) became a routine element of pharmacy operations. However, there is limited data available on local pharmacy customer feedback related to TPC. Methods: A customer survey was developed seeking feedback on T...
Preventable medication harm in oncology is often driven by drug-related adverse events (AEs) that trigger order changes such as holds, dose reductions, delays, rechallenges, and enhanced monitoring. Much of the evidence needed to make these decisions...
Background: Community pharmacies are increasingly delivering structured services to support chronic disease management, such as Multidose Drug Dispensing (MDD). This strategy can improve adherence and safety, but evidence of its economic feasibility...
Sustaining a well-designed healthcare intervention justifies the resources allocated during its conceptualization and implementation and maximizes its clinical benefits, but staff influences on sustainment have been studied insufficiently. This study...
Introduction: Cancer pain remains a critical issue for patients’ quality of life, affecting their physiology, psychology, and social relationships. Despite the widely recognized role of pharmacists in pain management, their involvement in palli...
Standardized pharmacist intervention practices and documentation among health-system specialty pharmacies could improve understanding of the pharmacists’ role and value in this setting. This study describes current health-system specialty pharm...
Job satisfaction plays a critical role in shaping professional outcomes, as it has been positively associated with enhanced performance and greater motivation. Conversely, insufficient job satisfaction may contribute to higher rates of staff turnover...
Frailty among older adults heightens their risk of negative health outcomes, and medication use plays a major role in this increased vulnerability. Various aspects of medication use elevate the risk of poor outcomes in individuals with frailty. The c...
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are an important medical innovation in modern medicine. They are an effective therapy for several subtypes of leukaemia but may have undesirable effects, which may be minimised through the provision of interdisciplinary c...
Chemotherapy for breast cancer includes pertuzumab and trastuzumab regimens with docetaxel (PHD) or paclitaxel (PHP). Current approaches for using supportive care drugs to manage the side effects of PHD and PHP are unclear. Here, we investigated the...
Drug–drug interactions (DDIs) are one of the most common problems related to drug administration which represent a risk for patient safety. Considering their position in the healthcare system, pharmacists should be more proactively involved in...
(1) Background: Medication shortages have become increasingly common in the UK. However, there is limited evidence regarding the experiences of people with epilepsy and their caregivers during these shortages. The aim of this study is to explore the...
Audits of medication charts conducted by Royal Hobart Hospital Pharmacy revealed that dose omission was the most common medication error experienced by patients. Investigation of these errors also found that nurses spend significant time organising m...
Background: Clinical pharmacy services (CPS) have been shown to confer significant advantages in patient care. It remains to be clarified how CPS resources are allocated across routine care settings. It remains to be clarified which recommendations a...
Background/Objectives: Job satisfaction is an essential element for organizational functions. Working entities would not effectively operate without employee contentment. This study aimed to determine the level of job satisfaction among pharmacists a...
“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Winston Churchill. In recent times, globally, approximately three pandemics and thousands of natural disasters and political upheavals have been recorded. In most cases, ten...
Background: The pharmacy workforce in Vietnam is rapidly evolving, but little is known about how gender and socioeconomic factors shape career intentions and sector preferences of students. Understanding these determinants is essential for healthcare...
MyDispense is a high-fidelity, low-stakes community pharmacy simulation, allowing students to practice dispensing skills. A systematic review was conducted to identify students’ perceptions regarding barriers and facilitators of MyDispense in p...
Background: Uremic pruritus is one of the most debilitating complications among patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) receiving hemodialysis. For patients who are refractory to traditional therapies (topical analgesics, antihistamines, or gab...
Pharmacist interventions (PIs) are central to optimising pharmacotherapy, preventing drug-related problems, and improving patient outcomes. In Portugal, the absence of a validated tool to consistently document and classify PIs limits data comparabili...
Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) are units of professional practice entrusted to learners once they have attained the required competencies to perform them. This scoping review described how Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) have b...
Increasing healthcare demands and physician shortages have prompted many countries to expand clinical responsibilities of pharmacists. Although Canada, the UK, and the US have implemented pharmacist prescribing, other nations lag behind. This review...
This study describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a Competency-Based Pharmacy Education (CBPE) program for 120 direct-to-patient (DTP) pharmacists in China, aimed at improving pharmaceutical care and pharmacotherapy skills. The progr...
In order to reach and maintain hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination goals, it is imperative to reach marginalized people who do not engage with traditional testing and treatment. Peer-led interventions are effective in engaging such individuals. Studi...
Research surrounding impacts of staffing on pharmacy residents is limited. This prospective survey study aims to elucidate relationships between burnout and weekends staffed among California pharmacy residents. Postgraduate year 1 and 2 (PGY1 and PGY...
Background: Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is proliferating in society and in pharmacy practice. For some, this represents a great advancement that will enhance effectiveness and efficiency of health care. For others, it is an existential risk t...
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is increasingly used to support critically ill adults with severe cardiac or respiratory failure, but ECMO circuits and the physiological disturbances of critical illness significantly alter drug pharmacokin...
