Interventions for improving pharmacist-led patient counselling in the community setting: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pharmacist counselling is an important service that has been associated with improved outcomes. The primary aim of this review was to identify, describe, and determine the effectiveness of interventions for improving the counselling practice of community pharmacists.

Methods

We searched PubMed (from January 1990 to June 2017) and the Cochrane Library (June 2017). To supplement our database searches, we searched Google Scholar for papers that cited the identified studies. We included only studies that reported the impact of the intervention on pharmacists' behaviour during counselling. We searched for data from studies with randomised trials, non-randomised trials, controlled before-after studies, or interrupted time series study designs. Parameters including selec

SUBMITTER: Al Aqeel S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5932789 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature