Assessment of a Community Pharmacy‐Based Program for Patients with Asthma

Abstract

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.

Knowledge, Attitudes and Preferences Among Spanish Community Pharmacists Regarding Inhaled Therapy (The Optim Pharmacy Study)

“…This study concludes that Pharmacists need more appropriate continuing education programs that can translate into improved pediatric asthma self-management practices and thus improved asthma outcomes in children. In fact, these and many other studies have addressed the effects of education and assessment by community pharmacists of patients with asthma or COPD by community pharmacists [15,26,[30][31][32][33][45][46][47], including children with asthma [58] and elderly subjects [59]. Moreover, in community pharmacies from different countries several initiatives to improve inhaler use have been implemented, such as the Australian Inhaler Technique Labels [50], the Pharmacy Asthma Management Service (PAMS) [53], and the Danish Inhaler Technique Assessment Service (ITAS) [60].…”

Community Pharmacy-Based Program for Patients with Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

“…the results from our study confirm previous reports that education of patients with asthma and COPD can be effective and beneficial. it proved that pharmaceutical care provision is well received by both asthmatic and coPD patients (8). We keep in mind the fact that the studied patient group was small is size and we cannot generalize about all the asthmatic and coPD patients in Bulgaria.…”

“…the value of the inhaler training is evident from the results and it coincides with other studies. the better results of the intervention group suggest that the education in proper application of inhalers at pharmacy conditions is beneficial (8).…”

“…Pharmacists play an important role in asthmatic and coPD patients treatment focused on the safe and effective use of drugs (15). in the european toM-studies (therapeutic outcome Monitoring) pharmacists improved not only isolated factors such as patients' drug knowledge, inhalator skills, compliance to prescription and self-management, but also the quality of drug therapy, in collaboration with the general practitioner (8,14,22,25). the pharmacist's contribution to patient care through education and monitoring, and through assessing and optimizing the drug therapy leads in general to improvement of patients' quality of life (9,13,24).…”

Patient-oriented Personality Traits of First-year Pharmacy Students

“…While various studies exist illustrating positive clinical, humanistic, and economic outcomes in the provision of pharmaceutical care, implementation on a large scale remains lacking. [3][4][5] The need to reform attitude, knowledge, and skills, as well as introduce appropriate remuneration, have been recognized as factors which could lead to facilitating and expanding the provision of pharmaceutical care. 6,7 Holland and Nimmo contend that implementing pharmaceutical care has been slow due to the varying levels of pharmacy practice in different regions, the focus on the responsibility of drug preparation and distribution, and the lack of clarity of the way pharmaceutical care fits into pharmacists' current practice.…”