Pharmacy Practice Research Case Studies

Pharmacy Practice Research Case Studies updates on the ways pharmacy has transformed over the past two decades. The book synthesizes the best pharmacy practices from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, providing case studies on how to  achieve sustainable, universal health care. According to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2015, countries around the world are aiming to achieve Universal Health Coverage. In this context, pharmacists are vital to healthcare teams, with their professional role evolving tremendously. Lessons learned in this book can be applied to a wide variety of countries, including the United States, China and Brazil.

This book provides a great resource for pharmacists, pharmaceutical scientists, policy makers and researchers who need to understand health systems from the scope of three dimensions, including practice, education and policy.

• Updates on current best practices in pharmacy and their evolution over the last decade in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand
• Provides insights into future research that can be applicable to global pharmacy practice
• Uses case studies to demonstrate how sustainable pharmacy practice can be used in other settings and countries

Practicing pharmacists, academicians, researcher, health policy makers, governments, and other international agencies (WHO, World Bank etc)

Preface - Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar

1. Experiences with Clinical Pharmacy Services in Cardiac Rehabilitation Program in Qatar - Muna Al-Ismail, Ahmed Awaisu, Theodoros Papasavvas and Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar

2. Clinical Pharmacy Service Innovation in Obstetrics and Gynecology Setting - Doua AlSaad, Ahmed Awaisu, Moza Al Hail, Afif Ahmed, Ahmed Moursi, Palli Valapila Abdulrouf, Wessam El Kassem and Muna AlSaadi

3. Pharmacy Practice Research Case Studies on Home Care Services - Mohamed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim

4. PharmaSAFE: A Quality Assurance Process to Improve Community Pharmacy Services in Saudi Arabia - Basmah Albabtain, Ejaz Cheema, Ghada Bawazeer and Muhammad Abdul Hadi

5. Pharmacy services and pharmacy practice research in Ukraine - Andriy Zimenkovsky, Myroslava Sekh and Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar

6. Understanding pharmacy staff attitudes and experience relating to suicide - Hayley Christine Gorton, Claire O'Reilly, David Gardner, Hayley Berry and Andrea Murphy

7. Making Time, Making History, Transforming Lives. Community Pharmacy service development and evaluation for people living with Learning Disabilities in the UK - Hadar Zaman, Sue Jones, Saira Khan, Kevin Flint and Ruth Buchan

8. Pharmacist-led interventions for the early detection of cardiovascular ill-health and its risk factors: experience from Portugal - Filipa Alves da Costa and Ema Paulino

9. Pharmacy practice and Continuing Professional Development in low and middle income countries (LMICs) - Amy Chan, Saba Shamim, Rula Darwish and Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar

10. Personalising Patient Care with Medicines: Innovative Models of Care from the UK - Tania Louise Jones, Wasim Baqir and Fraser Birrell

11. Pharmacy Services for Safe Parenteral Nutrition - Gil Hardy and Teresa Pounds

12. Community pharmacists and pharmacovigilance: Global overview and a case study - Rabia Hussain