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Call to Action: The Need for Adverse Drug Event (ADE) Standardization and Codification Through Improved ADE Definitions, Documentation and Mapping, as well as More Refined Medication Definitions

May 2025 DOI 10.14302/issn.2641-5526.jmid-25-5466
John McCueCorresponding author

Information on adverse drug event (ADE) assessment and prevention within Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is difficult for clinicians to use and produces wide-ranging results. Challenges include inconsistent ADE and drug product definition and documentation, workflows, terminology standardization, i…

Interviews in Healthcare: A Phenomenological Approach A Qualitative Research Methodology

Jul 2021 DOI 10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-21-3881
Farzeen TanwirCorresponding author

Phenomenology is a ritual of Qualitative research methodology. Interviews in healthcare enables researchers to recognise and understand data from lived experiences of the participants by using Phenomenological approach. The purpose of this article is to review the various face to face in depth inter…

Assessment of Self Medication Practice and Drugs Storage Among South Sudanese Community in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Sep 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2328-0182.japst-20-3526
Anbessa BekeleCorresponding author

Background Self-medication (SM) can be defined as the use of drugs to treat self-diagnosed disorders or symptoms, or the intermittent or continued use of a prescribed drug for chronic or recurrent disease or symptoms. A number of individuals in developing countries do not attend physicians for their…

Assessment of Prescribing and Dispensing Practices Based on WHO Core Prescribing Indicators in Hospital and Community Pharmacies in Khartoum State - Sudan

Jul 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2641-5526.jmid-20-3493
Salah I. KhederCorresponding author

Background Rational drug management has become an increasingly important topic in order to make optimal use of the drug budget to offer health services of the highest possible standard. It is important that continuous assessment for rational prescribing and use of drug have to be carried. Objective…

Tele-Pharmacists’ Prospects in Pandemic Situations: A Bangladesh Scenario

May 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-20-3355
Abdul Kader MohiuddinCorresponding author

Telemedicine and telehealth technologies are especially effective during epidemic outbreaks, when health authorities recommend implementing social distance systems. Currently, coronavirus COVID-19 has affected 210 countries around the world, killed more than 200,000 and infected more than 3 million,…

Evaluation of Job Satisfaction and Job Related Stress Among Community Pharmacists in North Khartoum and its Impact on Providing Pharmaceutical Care Services

Nov 2019 DOI 10.14302/issn.2328-0182.japst-19-3066
Mazin Yousif BabikerCorresponding author

Introduction Pharmacists and pharmaceutical care services are among the most important tools in providing health services to the society. Pharmacists as the key players in presenting health services, critically impact on the health of the society and if they suffer low job satisfaction, their dissat…

Yeast Species Mediated Bioprocesses and Bio-Products for Biotechnological Application

Mar 2019 DOI 10.14302/issn.2576-6694.jbbs-19-2684
Rajesh K. SrivastavaCorresponding author

Yeast as unicellular organism, has shown multiple application due to exhibition of noble ability in its cells. And engineered yeast has found more suitability in bioprocesses application as well as adverse conditions adaptation. Different types of yeast strains showed their best capability to adapt…

Drawbacks of Long-Acting Intramuscular Antipsychotic Injections

Jul 2017 DOI 10.14302/issn.3070-5835.jcpn-17-1562
Mary V. SeemanCorresponding author

Second-generation antipsychotics have relatively recently become available in long-acting intramuscular formulations (LAIs) and have been receiving a substantial amount of pharmaceutical industry promotion on the grounds that they improve treatment adherence in patients with psychotic illness. LAIs…

Obesity in Schizophrenia

May 2016 DOI 10.14302/issn.2574-450X.jom-16-1039
Mary V. SeemanCorresponding author

Over the last three decades, an epidemic of obesity has markedly affected patients suffering from mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. Antipsychotic medications used to treat schizophrenia are considered as major culprits. The aim of this review is to first consider risk factors, to then outline…

The Pharmacist Knowledge and Computer Skills Towards E-Health. Results of A Survey among Italian Community Pharmacists

Jun 2014 DOI 10.14302/issn.2374-9431.jbd-13-330
Iolanda GrappasonniCorresponding author

Background: Health practitioners of different disciplines (physicians, paramedic personnel, pharmacists) should possess adequate ICT (Information and Communication Technology) skills and practical competence on these technologies. Pharmacy practice requires a relevant flow of information, collection…

When and How Should we be Measuring Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in Resource-Limited Settings?

Jun 2013 DOI 10.14302/issn.2324-7339.jcrhap-13-edt.1.2
Denise EvansCorresponding author

This perspective reviews practical approaches to measuring ART adherence in resource‑limited settings. It weighs self‑report, pill counts, pharmacy refill data, and biologic measures, emphasizing feasibility, bias, and programmatic integration to support sustainable HIV care.

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