Community Pharmacists’ Perception of the Relevance of Drug Package Insert as Source of Drug Information in Southwestern Nigeria
| Autor: | Mohamed Azmi Hassali, Maryam Farooqui, Tahir Khan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Descriptive statistics business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Community pharmacist Drug information Drug package insert Alternative medicine Pharmaceutical Science Pharmacology Test (assessment) Drug Package Perception Family medicine medicine Information source Pharmacology (medical) Relevance (information retrieval) business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research; Vol 12, No 3 (2013); 433-438 |
| ISSN: | 1596-9827 1596-5996 |
| DOI: | 10.4314/tjpr.v12i3.25 |
| Popis: | Purpose: To evaluate the opinions of community pharmacists on the usefulness and reliability of drug package inserts (DPI) as drug information source, and necessary modifications needed to improve theircontents.Methods: A prospective cross-sectional study using a pretested questionnaire was administered to sixty-one superintendent community pharmacists (CP) across two cities in southwestern Nigeria. Descriptive statistics was used to summarize the data and evaluate respondents’ opinion. Kruskal-Wallis test was used to evaluate the rank variables with p < 0.05 considered significant.Results: A majority of CP believed that information from DPI was precise and may be helpful in achieving therapeutic success (n = 42; 72.8 %). CP believed there is need for the modification of DPI content with respect to patient-related information (n = 52; 92.8 %) and health provider-relatedinformation (n = 52; 94.5%), non-uniformity of information on the same generic medicines (n = 31; 50.8 %), and ambiguity of content (n = 29; 47.5 %). Years of experience in practice significantly influenced respondents’ perception of precision and satisfaction with DPI as source of information.Conclusions: Community pharmacists in southwestern Nigeria believed that a properly modified drug package insert could be a useful and reliable source of drug information in daily practice.Keywords: Community pharmacist, Drug information, Drug package insert |
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