Community pharmacist's professional adaptation amid Covid-19 emergency: a national survey on Italian pharmacists.

ABSTRACT: Background Italy has been the first non-Asian country affected by Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic. Community pharmacies are essential services authorized to continue their activity during the emergency. To date, a clear image is lacking of the critical issues Italian community pharmacists had to face and of how they responded in their daily work.. Objective To describe procedures and critical logistical-organizational issues encountered by Italian community pharmacists and to collect the main requests reported by patients to pharmacists. Setting A national survey on Italian community pharmacists. Method A cross-sectional survey using a reasoned questionnaire was sent during the pandemic peak to Italian pharmacies, divided in two groups according to the incidence of COVID-19: "Re

SUBMITTER: Giua C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7809641 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature