Pharmaceutical counseling: Between evidence-based medicine and profits

Abstract

BACKGROUND:The number of pharmacies, which produce drug formulations locally, has recently considerably reduced in Russia. Pharmacies mainly operate as retailers of industrially manufactured drugs.Pharmaceutical consultation of customers at pharmacies aimed at responsible self-medication is the most popular and accessible feature of pharmaceutical care. In Russia there is a signifi cant list of medicines approved for sale in pharmacies on a non-prescription basis that is specifi ed in the product label. In this regard, the role of pharmacists in public health in Russia increases. Pharmacist, working directly with population, is an important fi gure for the rational use of medicines. This type of work requires high level of professional training and appropriate ethics.

Starz-DRP as a Triaging Tool for Community Pharmacists: Perspectives and Expectations of Stakeholders

“…CPs in Canada have an enthusiasm to execute smoking cessation and diabetes care counselling [26]. CPs in Sudan, Russia, and China are performing a medication review in community pharmacy settings [27][28][29]. CPs in Australia and Belgium are carrying out a medication review for psychiatric patients [30,31].…”

“…Such collaboration between GPs and CPs require a particular framework [11,26,28,37] which can help CPs to distinguish customers who are suitable for self-care treatment and those who require immediate medical attention. Currently, it is noted several counselling frameworks which are WWHAM, AS METHOD, SIT DOWN SIR, ENCORE, CHAPS-FRAPS and QuEST/SCHOLAR [38][39][40][41][42][43].…”

Actual or Potential Extended Services Performed by Malaysian Community Pharmacists, Perceptions and Barriers Towards It’s Performance: A Systematic Review

“…Interestingly, the barriers are not much different from other barriers noted in other countries. For example, it is also noted that lack of time [14,17,19,21,[23][24][25][26], budget [17,19], reimbursement [14,16,17,19,23,25,26], training [14,19,20,29], self-confidence [14,18,19], knowledge [14,16,17,20,21,23,[27][28][29][30], counselling room, [17][18][19]23] and shortage of pharmacists [14,16,17,27] are among the barriers in the United Kingdom, Australia, Belgium, Nepal, Pakistan, China, South Africa, Netherlands, Singapore, Canada and United Arab Emirates respectively.…”

Starz-Drp: A Tool for Pharmacy Triage Services

“…In addition, STARZ-DRP Form allows the trained CPs to communicate with GPs about their referral patients, using common pharmaceutical language, eliminating language barriers between CPs and GPs. Therefore, STARZ-DRP Form is answering to the several barriers indicated in previous studies including lack of standard model for CPs to perform [39,[45][46][47] and lack of collaboration with GPs [26,38,39,48,49].…”