Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAP
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Migraine is a common, disabling, and underdiagnosed condition. Pharmacists are in an excellent position to help improve migraineur outcomes. The Pharmacists Care of Migraineurs Scale (PCMS) may be useful for documenting migraineur care and in the design and targeting of interventions aimed at improving care. ⋯ Self-assessed knowledge of migraine, perceived lack of difficulty, and caring ability are important determinants in the level of care provided to migraineurs by pharmacists. Future study should further delineate the role of the pharmacy's work environment and pharmacists' training needs in elevating levels of care. Comprehensive continuing education programs on migraine management would appear advisable.
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Res Social Adm Pharm · Sep 2010
Problem prescriptions in Sweden necessitating contact with the prescriber before dispensing.
Pharmacists have an important role in detecting, preventing, and solving prescription problems, which if left unresolved, may pose a risk of harming the patient. ⋯ Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) and electronically transmitted prescriptions (ETP) can not only reduce the total rate of prescription problems, but also introduce new clinically important errors that may compromise patient safety and medication outcome. The prescription problem rates in the present study differed across prescriber groups and patient age and gender, and the inverse correlation to pharmacy size indicates that all problems are not revealed and corrected and may thus reach the patient. CPOE and ETP have been used extensively in Sweden for the past decade, but the present study indicates that there is still a potential and need for improvement for the vision of "no prescribing errors/problems will reach the patient" to come true.