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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Pharmacy Asthma Care Program in Australia
A pharmacy asthma care program in Australia, which included specific education on asthma and asthma medication, trigger factors, use of inhalers, and medication adherence, as well as goal setting and patient r...
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Community Pharmacy, Disease State Management, and Adherence to Medication
Community pharmacists are well trained healthcare professionals who are able and willing to implement extended medication services. In the past decade, a plethora of pharmaceutical care and pharmacy-based dise...
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Open AccessExperiences of community pharmacists involved in the delivery of a specialist asthma service in Australia
The role of community pharmacists in disease state management has been mooted for some years. Despite a number of trials of disease state management services, there is scant literature into the engagement of, ...
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Open Access‘Help for Hay Fever’, a goal-focused intervention for people with intermittent allergic rhinitis, delivered in Scottish community pharmacies: study protocol for a pilot cluster randomized controlled trial
Despite the availability of evidence-based guidelines for managing allergic rhinitis in primary care, management of the condition in the United Kingdom (UK) remains sub-optimal. Its high prevalence and negativ...
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Open AccessBarriers and facilitators to patient recruitment to a cluster randomized controlled trial in primary care: lessons for future trials
Primary-care based randomized controlled trials (RCTs) build an important evidence base for general practice but little evidence exists about barriers to recruitment which often hamper such trials.
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Open AccessEstablishing a journal club to promote professional development within a trials unit
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Perceptions, opinions and knowledge of pharmacists towards the use of complementary medicines by people living with cancer
Background Biologically-based complementary medicine (BB-CM) use is prevalent amongst people living with cancer. Pharmacists play an important role in the provision of standard treatments for cancer. Less is know...
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Intellectual Functioning Assessments in Prison
The exact prevalence of intellectual disability (ID) within the criminal justice system remains unknown. However, there exists a proportion of the prison population with ID, reducing their ability to cope in p...
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Open AccessThe Help for Hay Fever community pharmacy-based pilot randomised controlled trial for intermittent allergic rhinitis
Management of intermittent allergic rhinitis (IAR) is suboptimal in the UK. An Australian community pharmacy-based intervention has been shown to help patients better self-manage their IAR. We conducted a pilo...
