Abstract
Pharmaceutical care related services provided by pharmacists in the community are mainly taking patients' medication history, informing patients about use of medications, informing patients about medication storage, and provide information about drug and/or food interaction. Objective: Toevaluate the knowledge about evidence based pharmaceutical care in medical and non-medicalpopulation of Lahore, Pakistan.Methods: A sample of 100 participants was drawn by using non-convenient sampling in this cross-sectional survey. Survey was conducted within the duration of 6 months from 2nd June, 2020 to 15th December, 2020. Data was collected from participants of different universities, societies and hospitals, having age between 25-40 years, both genders without discrimination of profession. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 21.0. Qualitative data was calculated using frequencies and percentages. Results: In this study 63% medical and 37% non-medical participants respond to questionnaire. About 34% of the population had knowledge about pharmaceutical care. Almost 23%had lack of knowledge about pharmaceutical care while 43%participants did not respond.Conclusions:The knowledge about pharmaceutical care in general community is very vital and pharmacist shouldprovide knowledge and pharmaceutical care services to the patients.
Highlights
Pharmaceutical care (PC) is the most important factor of healthcare system and is the liable facility of drug therapy for improving patient’s quality of life
Pharmaceutical care has been described as the pharmacy profession's mission statement as it moves into the 21st century
60% females and 40% males. 63% were included with medical background and 37% were nonmedical population (Table 1)
Summary
Pharmaceutical care (PC) is the most important factor of healthcare system and is the liable facility of drug therapy for improving patient’s quality of life. PC is associated on a connection between the patient and the other healthcare facilitators who consent to patient’s responsibility. This idea suggests the active involvement of the patient in decisions of medicine therapy, the assistance of healthcare facilitators from different disciplines, and contributes direct benefits for the patients. Establishing evidence-based practice (EBP) is important for pharmaceutical care services to be effective, updated and relevant to patients. Pharmacists must accept and actively participate in the research needed to establish the required evidence-based pharmaceutical care (EBPC) [2]. As a professional group, have been given the opportunity to develop a process to identify and PBMJ Vol 4 Issue 1 Jan-Jun 2021
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