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Pharmaceutical Care in Primary Care: an Experience with Hypertensive Patients in the North of Brazil

Abstract Background: Uncontrolled blood pressure has been associated with poor adherence to drug treatment. Objectives: To assess blood pressure control in hypertensive patients attending primary health centers after implementation of a pharmaceutical follow-up program in a city of the north of Brazil....

Perfil de medicamentos descartados nas farmácias públicas de um município do leste de Minas Gerais

O descarte inadequado de medicamentos pode levar a impactos ambientais negativos e deve ser considerado um problema de saúde pública. O presente estudo teve como objetivo levantar dados quantitativos e qualitativos relacionados ao perfil dos medicamentos descartados no município de Governador Valadare...

Desenvolvimento de organogel injetável subcutâneo de Pluronic®-F127 e lecitina de soja (OPL) contendo meloxicam para uso veterinário

O organogel é formado por uma matriz tridimensional composta de filamentos que se auto-organizam em uma rede entrelaçada e que, por seu tipo de estrutura, pode ser utilizado com o objetivo de atuar como um implante que se forma in situ, sendo capaz de se comportar como uma forma farmacêutica de libera...

Perceptions of Pharmacy students about their competences for professional practice in community pharmacy

Abstract Pharmaceutical education should enable the development of competences for community pharmacy practice, which is an important field for the pharmacist workforce. The aim of this study was to evaluate the competences perceived by pharmacy interns from a Brazilian pharmacy school for community phar...

Pharmacovigilance: an evaluation on the practice of pharmacists acting in pharmacies and drugstores

Abstract Pharmacists acting in pharmacies and drugstores stores are some of the most accessible healthcare providers and the last to intervene before the patient takes their medicine. This puts the pharmacist in a position of authority that should be harnessed for the benefit of health. Thus, this profes...

Pharmaceutical care during COVID-19 pandemic: challenges and perspectives

Abstract COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic is raising many questions about the future of face-to-face interactions. The possible changes on healthcare delivery may provoke a long term disruption on pharmaceutical assistance requiring new approaches to provide pharmaceutical services. The proposal of pharmac...

O sujeito e seu cuidado: a questão da adesão à medicação

Physis (Rio J.); 32 (3), 2022
Resumo O mapeamento dos comportamentos frente ao uso de medicamentos informa as condições pelas quais um tratamento farmacológico é implementado. A localização da adesão à medicação como um problema clínico, evoca, no entanto, lugares bem demarcados quanto aos procedimentos para sua explicaç�...

Pharmaceutical services in primary health care: dissatisfaction among users, managers and pharmacists

Abstract To assess the performance indicators for pharmaceutical services (PS) in primary health care (PHC), the level of satisfaction with pharmacy services among users and managers / pharmacists' impressions in relation to the findings were evaluated. The study used mixed methods, including a retrospec...

Treatment of patients with neuropathic pain and provision of drug information by clinical pharmacists

Abstract Patient’s satisfaction with healthcare services has an influence on pain management, which can be improved by patient education. Therefore, this study was aimed at identifying primary care health service opportunities in the treatment of neuropathic pain and assessing patients’ satisfaction...

Clinical pharmaceutical services of primary health care of the Federal District: A discussion based on the SWOT matrix

Abstract In the epistemic field, several studies demonstrate the importance of pharmaceutical services in health care networks. Nonetheless, literature still addresses the strengths and barriers present in the provision of these services in an incipient way. Thus, this study aimed to understand these con...