Exploring pharmacists' perspectives about substandard and falsified medical products through interviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The problem with substandard and falsified (SF) medical products may grow in high-income countries when e-commerce of medicines increases. Unauthorized websites offer medicines of insufficient quality. This underscores the importance of evaluating how the problem with SF medical products can be prevented from escalating. However, little is known about what knowledge and experience professionals working primarily with medicines have about the phenomenon.

Objective

This study was conducted to explore purposively selected pharmacists' experience and knowledge about SF medical products.

Methods

Twelve individual interviews were conducted with purposively selected pharmacists between May 2021 and September 2021. An interview guide was used with specific question

SUBMITTER: Persson A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10885592 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature