![]() ![]() There is underutilization of the high street community pharmacist in identifying falsified-medicines. ![]() Conclusions: Falsified-medicines pose a small but significant and growing challenge to the profession. A 10-item scale is validated (72.2% Cronbach alpha). This is surprising and unexpected because pharmacists are medicines-expert. ![]() Pharmacists are not confident and capable in identifying falsified-medicines (2.62 ± 1.105). A pharmacist’s intervention can prevent or disrupt the supply to patients (4.12 ± 0.824) and training courses can improve pharmacist’s knowledge (4.06 ± 0.843). ![]() Pharmacists surveyed believe that falsified-medicines pose a significant problem to the profession on a five-point Likert scale (4.02 ± 1.078). Results: A 14% response rate was achieved. Hypothesis testing (95% CI, α = 0.05) will be conducted to identify any gender differences, differences based on years of experience and differences based on number of working hours per week. Descriptive statistics and hypothesis testing was conducted. Methods: A postal survey was developed and distributed to 359 pharmacies via the local pharmaceutical committee in Hampshire, UK. Aims: To explore the opinion of pharmacists with respect to falsified medicines. Hence, their opinions are valuable in exploring how the profession can combat this. Community pharmacists are usually the last points of contact with patients and can protect them by quarantining falsified medicines. Context: Falsified-medicines pose a worldwide problem to patients, healthcare professionals, pharmaceutical companies, and governments. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |