薬局における健康食品の取扱い状況および調剤業務との関連性について

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We investigated the way that health foods (including those for specified health uses) are sold at pharmacies, awareness of interactions and the extent of information gathering when health foods are dispensed together with prescription drugs. To obtain data for our study, we sent a questionnaire by mail to 176 pharmacies belonging to the Chiba Pharmaceutical Association. The questionnaire asked for background information on pharmacies, and about how health foods are sold, the information given on them, awareness of interactions, information gathering methods and status of interactions in the case that health foods are dispensed together with prescription drugs. We next analyzed the results for a relationship between the dispensing status and methods of gathering information on interactions in the case of concomitant use of health foods and pharmaceutical products. In doing this, we investigated the independence among groups using the Wilcoxon rank sum test, specifying the average numbers of prescriptions dispensed per day and share of prescription drug sales as dependent variables, and whether or not information on interactions was sought using the internet or by making inquiries to pharmaceutical companies as explanatory variables. We received completed questionnaires from 77 pharmacies (response rate 43.7%). Based on their responses, the average monthly number of prescriptions per pharmacy was 1,738.9, dispensing accounted for 68% of sales, and the average manhours per day was 26.1 hours. The rate for conducting checks concerning health foods at the time of dispensing was 53.2%. As for the average number of prescriptions handled per day, we concluded that more inquiries were made to pharmaceutical companies as the number of prescriptions handled increased since there was a significant difference between the with and without inquiries to pharmaceutical companies groups (p=0.0037).
日本医療薬学会の論文
2005-11-10

薬局における健康食品の取扱い状況および調剤業務との関連性について

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