Reshaping the role of pharmacists- a focus on patient care

• In: G21 - Practitioners' Day (Part 2) on Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 14:00-17:15
• At: Basel (Switzerland) (2008)
• Type: Presentations + Posters
• By: WIEDENMAYER, Karin Anne (Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland)
• Co-author(s): Summers, Rob (School of Pharmacy, Medunsa Campus, University of Limpopo, Pretoria, South Africa)
  Mackie, Claire (Medway School of Pharmacy, Universities of Greenwich and Kent, United Kingdom)
  Gous, Andrew (School of Pharmacy, Medunsa Campus, University of Limpopo, Pretoria, South Africa)
  Tromp, Dick (International Pharmaceutical Federation, The Hague, Netherlands)
  Everard, Marthe (World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland)
  
• Abstract:

  Background The traditional role of pharmacists focused on manufacture and supply of medicines. More recently, pharmacists have been faced with increasing health demands: an ever-growing and complex range of medicines, and poor adherence to prescribed medicines, are changing the pharmacist’s role into a more patient centred approach, known as

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