Volume 2, Issue 3

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…

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-section…

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-admini…

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 four…

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 …

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…

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…

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…