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Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - August 31, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Frontmatter Source Type: journals

Challenges facing social pharmacyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this issue, Puspitasari et al present a review of research on counseling given to people purchasing prescription medicines in community pharmacies. Their results point to some challenges for social pharmacy research, such as the nature of researchers' relationships with the profession, how to improve community pharmacy practice, the importance of learning from other disciplines, and the need to internationalize our discipline. (Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy)
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - August 31, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Pauline T. Norris Tags: Editorial Source Type: journals

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Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - June 1, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Frontmatter Source Type: journals

Job satisfaction and intention to leave the profession: Should we care?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Pharmacists' job satisfaction has been of interest to researchers since the early 1960s. Three main approaches have been used in its study. One approach involves examining satisfaction with specific facets of the job such as working conditions, salary, and supervision. A second approach examines differences in overall job satisfaction by personal demographic or workplace characteristics such as age, gender, practice setting, and position. Third, researchers examine possible antecedents and consequences of job satisfaction such as role stress, skill utilization, commitment, and intention to leave. (Source: Research in Socia...
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - June 1, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Caroline A. Gaither Tags: Editorial Source Type: journals

Creating reliable pharmaceutical distribution networks and supply chains in African countries: Implications for access to medicinesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Access to medicines has no single clear definition, but it may be considered as a collection of different interrelated dimensions: accessibility, affordability, acceptability, and availability. These interrelated dimensions underscore the essence for differentiated yet simultaneously operating medicine access policies as depicted by the easily recognizable WHO access framework. If African countries are to institute price-sensitive procurement agencies, or multinational buying cooperatives, to negotiate steep discounts off global list prices for medicines, this may not lead to expanded access in the presence of inefficient ...
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - February 4, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ebenezer Tetteh Tags: Commentaries Source Type: journals

The relevance of political prestudies for implementation studies of cognitive services in community pharmaciesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: Political pre-studies were shown to be a useful prerequisite when designing implementation studies of cognitive services in community pharmacies and can provide valuable insight into the ultimate success or failure of these services. (Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy)
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - February 2, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Susanne Kaae, Janine Morgall Traulsen, Birthe Søndergaard, Lotte Stig Haugbølle Tags: Commentary Source Type: journals

Predialysis chronic kidney disease: Evaluation of quality of life in clinic patients receiving comprehensive anemia careEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract: Background: Anemia is common in chronic kidney disease (CKD), and suboptimal management of anemia can lead to serious health complications and poor quality of life (QOL).Objectives: (1) To describe health-related and overall QOL among patients entering a clinic focused on anemia management; (2) to compare their baseline QOL with other relevant populations; (3) to explore predictors of QOL before anemia management; and (4) to explore changes in QOL over 1 year for patients managed in the clinic.Methods: The Kidney Disease Quality of Life questionnaire—short form (KDQOL-SF™, Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA) ...
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - February 2, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Richard A. Hansen, Hyunsook Chin, Susan Blalock, Melanie S. Joy Tags: Original Research Source Type: journals

A comparison of mail-service and retail community pharmacy claims in 5 prescription benefit plansEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: Co-payment incentives to use mail-service pharmacies instead of community pharmacies were associated with higher mail-service utilization rates and with higher costs to plan sponsors. Absence of a co-payment incentive to use mail-service pharmacies was associated with lower mail-service utilization rates and with lower costs to plan sponsors. (Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy)
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - February 2, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Bartholomew E. Clark, Mark V. Siracuse, Robert I. Garis Tags: Original Research Source Type: journals

Pharmacists' communication with Spanish-speaking patients: A review of the literature to establish an agenda for future researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: These studies provide a macroscopic look at the linguistic services offered in pharmacies, gaps in services, and their subsequent impact on pharmacists and patients. Future research should investigate Spanish-speaking patients' literacy issues, pharmacy staff language skills, factors that influence pharmacists' counseling, and language-assistance programs for pharmacists and patients. Furthermore, these studies need to be conducted in large Hispanic/Latino populated areas where positive service models are likely to be present. Addressing these issues will provide pharmacists and pharmacies with information to ...
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - February 2, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Thomas J. Dilworth, Dave Mott, Henry Young, PharmD Student Tags: Reviews Source Type: journals

Social reactions to Valium and Prozac: A cultural lag perspective of drug diffusion and adoptionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Cultural lag provides a perspective from which to anticipate, view, and avoid controversies that develop from new technologies in general and pharmaceutical technologies in particular. Market demands for rapid introduction must be balanced by public education. This requires proactive encouragement of lay and professional discussions and the establishment of marketing guidelines that aid development of social consensus regarding appropriate usage. (Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy)
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - February 2, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Kimball P. Marshall, Zhanna Georgievskava, Igor Georgievsky Tags: Reviews Source Type: journals

Pharmaceutical product withdrawal: Attributions of blame and its impact on trustEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: Substitute products (drugs in the same therapeutic class) appear to be affected in the event of a PPMW, although drugs used to treat the same disease do not appear to be so affected. The difficult-to-explain findings with respect to trust may be accounted for by the fact that trust is more downstream than blame (based on the scenario presentations) and that trust is a complex construct with multiple antecedents. Although the bonds of interpersonal trust remain stronger than those of institutional trust, the likelihood of situational trust versus overall trust may complicate this picture of understanding trust. ...
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - February 2, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Suvapun Bunniran, David J. McCaffrey, John P. Bentley, Alicia S. Bouldin Tags: Original Research Source Type: journals

The impact of nonreferral outpatient co-payment on medical care utilization and expenditures in TaiwanEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Differential co-payment policy decreased total medication utilization but not costs to NHI. The results suggest that the increased level of co-payment charge and the strategy of a single cost-sharing policy are not sufficient to promote referrals within the system. To achieve an effective co-payment policy, further research is needed to explore how patients' out-of-pocket payment affects medical utilization and which forces (not susceptible to co-payment) act in tertiary facilities. (Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy)
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - February 2, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Li-Chia Chen, Ellen I. Schafheutle, Peter R. Noyce Tags: Original Research Source Type: journals

A review of counseling practices on prescription medicines in community pharmaciesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: The actual counseling rates are difficult to obtain due to the differences and limitations of each research method. Of all methods, simulated-patient methods appear to be a more reliable method of evaluating counseling practice in pharmacies. In providing information to consumers with prescriptions, pharmacists appear to have fulfilled the minimum legislative requirements or practice standards. (Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy)
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - February 2, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Hanni Prihhastuti Puspitasari, Parisa Aslani, Ines Krass Tags: Review Source Type: journals

Medication therapy management services in West Virginia: Pharmacists' perceptions of educational and training needsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: PICs in West Virginia are interested in and open to their pharmacists receiving education and training for implementation of MTMS. (Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy)
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - January 22, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Kimberly B. Blake, S. Suresh Madhavan, Virginia (Ginger) Scott, Betsy L. Meredith Elswick Tags: Research Brief Source Type: journals

Using the theory of reasoned action to determine physicians' intention to measure body mass index in children and adolescentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract: Background: Over the past few decades, childhood obesity has become a major public health issue in the United States. Numerous public and professional organizations recommend that physicians periodically screen for obesity in children and adolescents using the body mass index (BMI). However, studies have shown that physicians infrequently measure BMI in children and adolescents.Objectives: The purpose of this study was to use the theory of reasoned action (TRA) to explain physicians' intentions to measure BMI in children and adolescents. The study objectives were to (1) determine if attitude and subjective norm p...
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - January 22, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Rahul Khanna, Jan Kavookjian, Virginia (Ginger) Scott, Khalid M. Kamal, Lesley-Ann N. Miller, William A. Neal Tags: Original Research Source Type: journals

A thematic analysis for how patients, prescribers, experts, and patient advocates view the prescription choice processEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: It appears that the prescription choice process entails an interplay among information, relationship, patient variation, practitioner variation, and role expectations, with each viewed within different contexts by individuals engaged in such decision making. (Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy)
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - January 22, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Jon C. Schommer, Marcia M. Worley, Andrea L. Kjos, Serguei V.S. Pakhomov, Stephen W. Schondelmeyer Tags: Original Research Source Type: journals

Exploring the relationship between pharmacists' job satisfaction, intention to quit the profession, and actual quittingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Several factors were found to affect pharmacists' intentions to quit the profession including sex, age, job satisfaction, and strength of desire to practice pharmacy. However, only a relatively small proportion of pharmacists who expressed an intention to leave the profession appeared to have done so, suggesting that intentions may not be translated into action in this group of pharmacists. (Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy)
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - January 22, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Elizabeth Seston, Karen Hassell, Jane Ferguson, Mark Hann Tags: Original Research Source Type: journals

Policies and institutional arrangements for rationalizing drug selection and consumption patterns in African healthcare systemsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article presents a model-mix approach for rationalizing drug consumption in African nations that recognizes the dichotomy between professionally determined and consumer-driven consumption. The model-mix policy relies on financial and nonfinancial interventions, including those aimed at correcting information asymmetries and failures, for modifying “volumes” of consumption. These interventions will be operated and coordinated by dedicated medicines management agencies in African nations. (Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy)
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - January 22, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ebenezer Kwabena Tetteh Tags: Commentaries Source Type: journals

Identifying factors that affect patients' willingness to pay for inhaled insulinEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: The out-of-pocket cost that patients were willing to pay was the same as the amount patients pay presently for their insulin and syringes. Although Exubera® is no longer on the market, the study findings can have an impact on pharmaceutical companies working on new inhaled insulin products in their efforts to care for patients with diabetes. (Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy)
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - January 22, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Sharrel L. Pinto, Monica Holiday-Goodman, Curtis D. Black, David Lesch Tags: Original Research Source Type: journals

Community pharmacists' attitude toward depression: A pilot studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: The generally favorable attitude of community pharmacists toward depression is promising with regard to their role in depression care. Training programs, preferably including patients with depression themselves, are needed to further improve unfavorable attitudes. Further work is needed to refine the pharmacists' adapted DAQ. (Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy)
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - January 22, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Gert Scheerder, Iris De Coster, Chantal Van Audenhove Tags: Original Research Source Type: journals

Concomitant antipsychotic prescribing in US outpatient settingsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Concomitant antipsychotic therapy continues to be prevalent and extensive in outpatient settings. With the use of concomitant antipsychotic therapy as a quality of care measure, there is a need to optimize prescribing of these potent combinations. (Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy)
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - January 22, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Rajender R. Aparasu, Elda Jano, Vinod Bhatara Tags: Original Research Source Type: journals

Symptomatology, attribution to medicines, and symptom reporting among Medicare enrolleesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Assessing beliefs in medications may help to identify unreported symptoms and subsequent ADEs. In addition, symptom reporting to physicians and other health professionals should be encouraged so that preventable ADEs are detected. (Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy)
Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - January 22, 2009 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Olayinka Oladimeji, Karen B. Farris, Julie G. Urmie, William R. Doucette Tags: Original Research Source Type: journals