The Care of Community Pharmacist for Patient Safety and Well-Being
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Medication Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 87
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
(1) Pharmaceutical care is a concept conceived almost 30 years ago, and it is still not fully implemented in pharmacy practice. In many countries around the world, the main role of a community pharmacist remains dispensing and implementing pharmacy services, which is slow and inconsistent.
We are pleased to invite you to publish your recent work in this area to share bets practices, facilitators of, and barriers to change to empower community pharmacists around the world to develop services in their pharmacies that increase patients’ safety, quality of life, and health literacy.
(2) This Special Issue aims to promote patient care and pharmacists’ interventions in triage for the early detection of illness or complications to manage chronic conditions and non-communicable diseases, but also to promote and increase health literacy, implement public health campaigns and activities, and protect patient safety and the quality of life.
(3) In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Pharmaceutical care in acute and chronic diseases in community pharmacy;
- Public health activities in community pharmacy;
- Point of care testing and discovery in community pharmacy;
- Health literacy promotion activities in community pharmacy;
- Influence of pharmacists’ education to the patient safety and care;
- Integrative care of community pharmacists in collaboration with other healthcare providers.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Arijana Meštrović
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- patient safety
- public health
- pharmaceutical care
- point of care testing
- health literacy
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