Disease relevance of Pharmaceutical Services

• CONCLUSIONS: Our data demonstrate the effectiveness of pharmaceutical care in the reduction of hyperglycemia associated with NIDDM in a group of urban African-American patients [1].
• DESIGN: Clinic patients with hypertension or COPD were randomly assigned to a treatment group (pharmaceutical care) or a control group (traditional pharmacy care) over a six-month period [2].
• Drug use review criteria were developed by the Pharmacy Service and Infectious Disease Section. For the prospective evaluation, data were collected for all inpatient and outpatient requests for ciprofloxacin during a six-month period (May to November 1988) using the same criteria as in the retrospective study [3].

High impact information on Pharmaceutical Services

• Position paper on critical care pharmacy services. Society of Critical Care Medicine and American College of Clinical Pharmacy Task Force on Critical Care Pharmacy Services [4].
• Pharmaceutical services also represent a significant element of the cost of epilepsy, the financial costs of prescribing newly developed antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) being large relative to those of the older drugs; therefore, the benefits derived from their use must be carefully assessed [5].
• Capitation payment for pharmacy services. II. Impact on costs [6].
• The objective of this study was to estimate the effect of a pharmaceutical care program on the adherence of once-daily atorvastatin treatment in patients with elevated cholesterol levels [7].
• Activities of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), some wholesale companies, and influential individuals in the Netherlands stimulated universities and the Royal Society for the Advancement of Pharmacy to advance the implementation of pharmaceutical care [8].

Biological context of Pharmaceutical Services

• METHODS: Beginning in April 2002, patients on latanoprost were systemically switched to bimatoprost by the HMO pharmacy service after obtaining approval from the entire ophthalmology staff [9].
• Family practice pharmacy service: Part I [10].

Associations of Pharmaceutical Services with chemical compounds

• Effect of pharmaceutical care on optimum colestipol treatment in elderly hypercholesterolemic veterans [11].
• Effect of intervention through a pharmaceutical care program on patient adherence with prescribed once-daily atorvastatin [7].
• The serum theophylline concentrations of group 1 patients generally attained levels sufficient for favourable therapeutic effect after patients received pharmaceutical care [12].
• OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the quality of pharmaceutical care of malaria for children in eastern Uganda prescribed at government health units and drug shops, and administered by caretakers at home; and to assess its appropriateness in relation to national treatment guidelines, which recommend chloroquine over 3 days [13].
• Assessment of the pharmacy service needs of HIV-positive outpatients receiving zidovudine [14].

Gene context of Pharmaceutical Services

• The questionnaire elicited respondent characteristics, pharmacy-use patterns, and expectation and satisfaction levels for 16 pharmaceutical services described in the APhA- AACP standards of practice [15].
• CONCLUSIONS: A community-based pharmaceutical care program was appreciated by the participants and had a positive impact on the vitality of patients with asthma, inhaler technique, and PEE [16].
• The pharmacy service at a 400-bed Veterans Affairs Medical Center established a pharmacist-managed clinic to assess patients who were receiving long-term acid-suppressive medications (histamine H2-receptor antagonists, sucralfate, or omeprazole) [17].
• Framework for pharmacy services quality improvement--a bridge to cross the quality chasm. Part I. The opportunity and the tool [18].
• Identification of the pharmaceutical care issues of rheumatoid arthritis patients in secondary care [19].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Pharmaceutical Services

• An economic analysis of a randomized, controlled, multicenter study of clinical pharmacist interventions for high-risk veterans: the IMPROVE study. Impact of Managed Pharmaceutical Care Resource Utilization and Outcomes in Veterans Affairs Medical Centers [20].
• Ambulatory care pharmacy services at the Family Medicine Center of the Medical University of South Carolina [21].

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