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Review Article
Avinash Darekar, Isha Patel, Marilee Clemons, Xi Tan, Rajat Rana, Deepak Bhatia, Jongwha Chang
pp. 60-64 · DOI: 10.5530/jppcm.2016.3.1 · 2016
Physician dispensing refers to the legal practice where physicians directly supply their patients with medication bypassing the need for patients to use a community pharmacy to fill their prescription. This practice is c…
Research Article
Salwa Omer Bahelah, Gamila Mohammed Abdo
pp. 65-69 · DOI: 10.5530/jppcm.2016.3.2 · 2016
Background: Antibiotics represent one of the most commonly used medicines in dermatology. The objective of the present study is to assess the prescription patterns of antibiotics by dermatologists. Methods: A cross-secti…
Mohamed Elashwah
pp. 70-78 · DOI: 10.5530/jppcm.2016.3.3 · 2016
Objectives: This study aims were to investigate community pharmacists’ behavior when dispensing a liquid prescription medicine for a child, and identify strategies used or recommended by pharmacists to optimize the dispe…
Yousef Ahmed Alomi, Lina Kurdy, Zainab Aljarad, Hamid Basudan, Banan Almekwar, Sharefia Almahmood
pp. 79-87 · DOI: 10.5530/jppcm.2016.3.4 · 2016
Objective: The study examined patient satisfaction with pharmaceutical care of selected domains at primary care centers of Ministery of Health in Saudi Arabia as a pilot study. Methods: It is a cross-sectional self-admin…
Mohammed Alshakka, Khaled Said, Mohammed Babakri, Mukhtar Ansari, Adel Aldhubhani, Mohamed Azmi Hassali, Mohammed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim
pp. 88-93 · DOI: 10.5530/jppcm.2016.3.5 · 2016
Objective: The study was to investigate antibiotic prescription patterns at outpatient departments (OPDs) at four hospitals in Aden-Yemen. Settings and Design: A cross sectional descriptive study was conducted in the fou…
Case Report
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Meghana Devulapalli, Narasimha Kumar G.V
pp. 94-95 · DOI: 10.5530/jppcm.2016.3.6 · 2016
Nevirapine is one of the first line agents of the anti-retroviral therapy (ART) used widely in the management of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and also in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Anemia …
- Article
Hashmi Furqan Khurshid, Saleem Zikria, Saeed Hamid, Verma Ashutosh Kumar
pp. 96-99 · DOI: 10.5530/jppcm.2016.3.7 · 2016
A 70 years-old male patient with poor socioeconomic status seeks medical treatment from a quack for a minor injury. The Quack assured him to improve his health while offering him a miracle medicine that went wrong. A reg…
Letter to Editor
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Saad Salman, Abdullah A, Jawaria Idrees, Fahad Hassan Shah
pp. 100-101 · DOI: 10.5530/jppcm.2016.3.8 · 2016
Widespread use of antidepressant drugs has led to suicidal attempts and sexual dysfunction among adolescent psychiatric patients.[1] Patients usually complain for delayed ejaculation and libido loss with SSRIs group spec…
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Yousef Ahmed Alomi, Bsc. Pharm, Msc. Clin Pharm, BCPS, BCNSP, DiBA, CDE
pp. 102-103 · DOI: 10.5530/jppcm.2016.3.9 · 2016
Performing Hajj is considered the fifth pillar of Islam at a specific time each year 5-10 days. During this period million of pilgrims gathering in small location addition another thing called Omra with mostly little res…