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Tips to Manage Your Medications Better

Lifewell Rx Pharmacy

As a community pharmacy in Kentucky , we would like to help our customers manage their medications better to ensure their health and well-being. This should include each medication, the dosage information, and what you are taking it for. Have a medication file containing the written materials that come with your prescription.

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Medication Adherence and the Importance of Packaging

Lifewell Rx Pharmacy

A retail pharmacy may use blister packs , Dispill®, and other types of special packages to organize prescriptions and label medications according to dosage and time of intake. Special packaging also includes certain labels to guide patients with their medication intake and dosage, thus avoiding over or under-dosing.

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Why You Need Doctor’s Prescriptions for Antibiotics

Lifewell Rx Pharmacy

Underdosing or not finishing the prescribed dosage of antibiotic can also contribute to the development of microbe resistance to antibiotics. That’s why, Lifewell Rx Pharmacy , a community pharmacy in Kentucky , do not sell antibiotics to customers without prescription.

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Paediatric oral compounding: expert insights from a global study

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Our survey also highlighted other challenges in some regions, such as workforce capacity constraints, the need for up-to-date training for pharmacy professionals, and the availability of adequately resourced compounding laboratories. Addressing compounding variability Our study showed that there is variability in the source of APIs.

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A Special Packaging Techniques for Promoting Adherence

Lifewell Rx Pharmacy

” It is achieved when a patient takes the medications according to the prescribed dosage, time, frequency, and direction. One way to overcome this is by having a close connection with an established provider of high-quality pharmacy services. But for many, adhering to their medications is still a challenge.

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How AI can help pharmacists

The Checkup by Singlecare

AI technology also supports clinical decision-making by analyzing patient data and checking for drug interactions, dosage errors, or allergies. However, it’s important to note that ChatGPT did not recommend specific dosages, and its success rate was not as high with complex patient cases.

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Antimicrobial Stewardship in Turkey – A Clinical Pharmacist’s Perspective

IDStewardship

Currently, it is not possible to buy antimicrobial drugs from community pharmacies without a prescription. In our country, important steps have been taken to limit the use of antimicrobial drugs not only in hospitals but also outside the hospital. and Enterobacterales in our hospitals.

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