Background Studies have highlighted advancing clinical pharmacy practice in Qatar. Objective To explore pharmacists’ aspirations and readiness to implement pharmacist prescribing. Setting Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), the main provider of secondary and tertiary care. Method A sequential explanatory mixed-methods design. Questionnaire items were derived from the Consolidated...
Background It has been acknowledged and recognised internationally that the community pharmacy team has a major role to play in antimicrobial stewardship programmes, particularly regarding patient engagement. However, there is a paucity of published research on community pharmacy-based activities in antimicrobial stewardship, and views and perceptions of the community pharmacy...
Background Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of factors that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and include: diabetes and prediabetes, abdominal obesity, elevated triglycerides, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and high blood-pressure. However, the role of the pharmacist in the metabolic syndrome has not yet been fully explored. Aim of the review This systematic...
Background In Qatar, the National Vision 2030 and the National Health Strategy 2018–2022 articulate the need to improve healthcare delivery by better utilisation of the skilled workforce. In this regard, pharmacy practice is rapidly advancing and several extended pharmacy services are now available in institutionalised settings. Objective This study aimed to determine health...
Corporation , Doha , Qatar 3 Derek Stewart 4 School of Pharmacy, University of Birmingham , Birmingham , UK 5 Corporate Pharmacy Executive Office, Hamad Medical Corporation , Doha , Qatar Background Medication
interest Pamela Mills, Anita Elaine Weidmann and Derek Stewart declare that they have no conflict of interest. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Ian Wood Building, Garthdee Road, Aberdeen AB10 7GJ , UK 1 Derek Stewart 2 Centre for Health Science, Highland Pharmacy Education and Research Centre , Old Perth Road, Inverness IV2 3JH , UK 3 NHS
Background Clinical pharmacy services have potential to contribute significantly to the multidisciplinary team providing safe, effective and economic care for patients. Given recent practice developments (e.g. polypharmacy reviews and pharmacist prescribing) there is a need to provide a current synthesis of the evidence base for characteristics and outcomes of clinical pharmacy...
Introduction Professor Archibald Cochrane, after whom the Cochrane Collaboration is named, was influential in promoting evidence-based clinical practice. He called for “relevant, valid research” to underpin all aspects of healthcare. Systematic reviews of the literature are regarded as a high quality source of cumulative evidence but it is unclear how truly systematic they, or...
, England , UK 1 Robert Gordon University , Aberdeen, Scotland , UK 2 Derek Stewart Background Multi-compartment compliance aids (MCAs) are promoted as a potential solution to medicines non-adherence despite