Rural Australian community pharmacists' views on complementary and alternative medicine: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) are being used increasingly across the world. In Australia, community pharmacists are a major supplier of these products but knowledge of the products and interactions with other medicines is poor. Information regarding the use of CAMs by metropolitan pharmacists has been documented by the National Prescribing Service (NPS) in Australia but the views of rural/regional community pharmacists have not been explored. The aim of this pilot study was to explore the knowledge, attitudes and information seeking of a cohort of rural community pharmacists towards CAMs and to compare the findings to the larger NPS study.

Methods

A cross sectional self-administered postal questionnaire was mailed to all community pharmacists in o

SUBMITTER: Bushett NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3217877 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature