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'If I die, I die, I don't care about my health': Perspectives on self-care of people experiencing homelessness.
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Wiley
, 2020 , Article)
Self-care, which refers to what people do to prevent disease and maintain good health, can alleviate negative health consequences of people experiencing homelessness. The aim of the study was to apply a theoretically ...
Comprehensive medication reviews by ward-based pharmacists in Swedish hospitals: What does the patient have to say?
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Wiley
, 2020 , Article)
Inappropriate medication prescribing and use amongst older patients is a major patient safety and health care problem. To promote appropriate medication prescribing and use, comprehensive medication reviews (CMRs) by ...
Interventions to improve spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting by healthcare professionals and patients: systematic review and meta-analysis.
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Taylor & Francis
, 2020 , Article)
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions used for improving ADR reporting by patients and healthcare professionals. A systematic review of literature was conducted by searching Medline, ...
Drug safety in Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Book chapter)
This chapter introduces aspects of medication safety in the State of Qatar. It starts by presenting an overview of the geography and demographics of the population. There is then a description of key strategic national ...
A Review of Clinical Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Relationships and Clinical Implications for Drugs Used to Treat Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis
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Springer
, 2020 , Article Review)
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is becoming a global health crisis. The World Health Organization has released new guidelines for the use of tuberculosis-active drugs for the treatment of patients with MDR-TB. ...
Letrozole-loaded nonionic surfactant vesicles prepared via a slurry-based proniosome technology: Formulation development and characterization
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Slurry-based Letrozole (LTZ)-loaded proniosomes were designed using sucrose or sorbitol as carriers and various ratios of cholesterol (CH) and Tween 80 (T80) as lipid composition. Proniosomes were hydrated and probe-sonicated ...
The effect of genetic and nongenetic factors on warfarin dose variability in Qatari population.
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Pharmacogenomics Journal
, 2020 , Article)
The objective of this study is to estimate the prevalence of VKORC1, CYP2C9, and CYP4F2 genetic variants and their contribution to warfarin dose variability in Qataris. One hundred and fifty warfarin-treated Qatari patients ...
Advances in nasal drug delivery systems
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Academic Press
, 2020 , Book chapter)
Nasal drug delivery has been around for centuries and employed both leisure and recreations and also for the treatment of various conditions such as migraine, decongestion, sinusitis, rhinitis, and in emergency. The route ...
Provision of clinical pharmacy services during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of pharmacists from 16 European countries
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
The pharmacy profession has an important role in the frontline healthcare response to COVID-19 across all settings. This study sought to explore the views and experiences of clinical pharmacists in relation to the provision ...
Universal health coverage for mental health: the contribution of clinical pharmacists
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Springer
, 2021 , Article)
The patterns of morbidity and mortality have dramatically changed over the last 100 years. Before the 1950s, the most common causes of death were infectious diseases and as public health and medical interventions developed, ...