Journal of Research in Pharmacy Practice

Phamacoeconomics can aid the policy makers and the healthcare providers in decision making in evaluating the affordability of and access to rational drug use. Efficiency is a key ... Read More

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Clinical pharmacy services in an Iranian teaching hospital: Type, severity, resolution, and accuracy

. Zahra Allameh; . Maryam Mehrpooya; . Shadi Baniasadi; . Fanak Fahimi

Volume 2, Issue 1 , January 2013, Pages 10-17

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Objective: Clinical pharmacy services are improving in hospitals. For assessing the impact of these services, first it is important to exactly describe them by categorizing into ... Read More

Factors effective on medication errors: A nursing view

. Akram Shahrokhi; . Fatemeh Ebrahimpour; . Arash Ghodousi

Volume 2, Issue 1 , January 2013, Pages 18-23

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Objective: Medication errors are the most common medical errors, which may result in some complications for patients. This study was carried out to investigate what influence medication ... Read More Objective: Medication errors are the most common medical errors, which may result in some complications for patients. This study was carried out to investigate what influence medication errors by nurses from their viewpoint.Methods: In this descriptive study, 150 nurses who were working in Qazvin Medical University teaching hospitals were selected by proportional random sampling, and data were collected by means of a researcher‑made questionnaire including demographic attributes (age, gender, working experience,…), and contributing factors in medication errors (in three categories including nurse‑related, management‑related, and environment‑related factors).Findings: The mean age of the participant nurses was 30.7 ± 6.5 years. Most of them (87.1%) were female with a Bachelor of Sciences degree (86.7%) in nursing. The mean of their overtime working was 64.8 ± 38 h/month. The results showed that the nurse‑related factors are the most effective factors (55.44 ± 9.14) while the factors related to the management system (52.84 ± 11.24) and the ward environment (44.0 ± 10.89) are respectively less effective. The difference between these three groups was significant (P = 0.000). In each aforementioned category, the most effective factor on medication error (ranked from the most effective to the least effective) were as follow: The nurse’s inadequate attention (98.7%), the errors occurring in the transfer of medication orders from the patient’s file to kardex (96.6%) and the ward’s heavy workload (86.7%).Conclusion: In this study nurse‑related factors were the most effective factors on medication errors, but nurses are one of the members of health‑care providing team, so their performance must be considered in the context of the health‑care system like work force condition, rules and regulations, drug manufacturing that might impact nurses performance, so it could not be possible to prevent medication errors without paying attention to our health‑care system in a holistic approach.

Hypercapnic hyperventilation shortens emergence time from Propofol and Isoflurane anesthesia

. Ahmad Yaraghi; . Mohammad Golparvar; . Reihanak Talakoub; . Hossein Sateie; . Ali Mehrabi

Volume 2, Issue 1 , January 2013, Pages 24-28

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Objective: The aim of this study is to compare the effects of hypercapnic hyperventilation and normocapnic normoventilation on emergence time from propofol and isoflurane anesthesia.Methods: ... Read More

Risperidone as a treatment for childhood habitual behavior

. Victoria Omranifard; . Mostafa Najafi; . Mohammad Reza Sharbafchi; . Parisa Emami; . Mohammad Maracy

Volume 2, Issue 1 , January 2013, Pages 29-33

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Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of adding risperidone to the general behavioral treatment of masturbation in children 3‑7 years old.Methods: A ... Read More

Evaluation of Glucosamine sulfate and Ibuprofen effects in patients with temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis symptom

. Abbas Haghighat; . Ali Behnia; . Naser Kaviani; . Behnam Khorami

Volume 2, Issue 1 , January 2013, Pages 34-39

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Objective: Ibuprofen – a non‑steroidal anti‑inflammatory drug (NSAID)‑ and glucosaminesulfate – a natural compound and a food supplement‑ are two therapeutic agents ... Read More Objective: Ibuprofen – a non‑steroidal anti‑inflammatory drug (NSAID)‑ and glucosaminesulfate – a natural compound and a food supplement‑ are two therapeutic agents which havebeen widely used for treatment of patients with temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders.This study was aimed to compare the effectiveness and safety of these two medications inthe treatment of patients suffering fromTMJ disorders.Methods: After obtaining informed consent, 60 patients were randomly allocated to twogroups. Patients with painful TMJ,TMJ crepitation or limitation of mouth opening enteredthe study. Exclusion criteria were history of depressive disorders, cardiovascular disease,musculoskeletal disorders, asthma, gastrointestinal problems, kidney or liver dysfunctionor diabetes mellitus, dental diseases needing ongoing treatment; taking aspirin or warfarin,or concomitant treatment of TMJ disorder with other agents or methods.Thirty patientswere treated with ibuprofen 400 mg twice a day, (mean age 27.12 ± 10.83 years) and30 patients (mean age 26.60 ± 10) were treated with glucosamine sulfate 1500 mg daily.Patients were visited 30, 60 and 90 days after starting the treatment, pain and mandibularopening were checked and compared within and between two groups.Findings: Comparing with baseline measures, both groups had significantly improvedpost‑treatment pain (P < 0.0001 for both groups) and mandibular opening (P value: 0.001for glucosamine sulfate and 0.03 for ibuprofen).Post treatment pain and mandibular openingshowed significantly more improvement in the glucosamine treated patients (P < 0.0001 and0.01 respectively).Rate of adverse events was significantly lower in the P value glucosaminesulfate group (P < 0.0001).Conclusion: This investigation demonstrated that comparing with a commonly prescribedNSAID – ibuprofen‑, glucosamine sulfate is a more effective and safer therapeutic agent fortreatment of patients with TMJ degenerative join disorder.

Evaluating the efficacy of Salsalate on prediabetic and diabetic patients with fatty liver: A randomized clinical trial

. Elham Faghihimani; . Masoud Amini; . Atoosa Adibi; . Zohreh Naderi; . Ali Toghiani; . Peyman Adibi

Volume 2, Issue 1 , January 2013, Pages 40-43

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Objective: Nearly two-third of the patients with type 2 diabetes have degrees of fatty liver; this may induce some side effects in them. This study aimed to find effect of salsalate ... Read More

Side effects of antineoplastic and immunomodulating medications reported by European consumers

. Lise Aagaard; . Ebba Holme Hansen

Volume 2, Issue 1 , January 2013, Pages 44-49

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Objective: To characterize adverse drug reactions (ADRs) reported by European (EU) consumer for antineoplastic and immunomodulating medications.Methods: ADRs reported by consumers ... Read More

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Pharmacotherapy of pediatric metabolic syndrome

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The role of pharmacoeconomics in current Indian healthcare system

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Clinical pharmacy services in an Iranian teaching hospital: Type, severity, resolution, and accuracy

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Factors effective on medication errors: A nursing view

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Hypercapnic hyperventilation shortens emergence time from Propofol and Isoflurane anesthesia

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Risperidone as a treatment for childhood habitual behavior

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Evaluation of Glucosamine sulfate and Ibuprofen effects in patients with temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis symptom

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Evaluating the efficacy of Salsalate on prediabetic and diabetic patients with fatty liver: A randomized clinical trial

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Side effects of antineoplastic and immunomodulating medications reported by European consumers

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