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COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS’ PERCEPTION OF THEIR CLINICAL PHARMACY SERVICE FUNCTION, A STUDY FROM TURKEY

OZLEM NAZAN ERDOGAN1*, MEHMET SARPER ERDOGAN2, ONUR GUNAY3, SERDAR ERKUS4, TUMER ULUS2

1Kocaeli University, College of Hereke Omer Ismet Uzunyol, Marshall Campus, Korfez, Kocaeli,Turkey
2 Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Public Health, Istanbul Turkey
3 Sirnak Provincial Health Directorate, Sirnak, Turkey (working at the Bingol Province Health Directorate when the survey was conducted)
4 Amasya Province Health Directorate, Department of Medicine and Pharmacy, Amasya, Turkey

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The aim of this study was to describe the perceptions and attitudes of community pharmacists with respect to clinical issues in community pharmacy services in Turkish provinces of Bingol and Amasya. A survey was conducted to understand the self-perceptions of community pharmacists regarding clinical pharmacy services in the community pharmacy setting. The survey was done between December 2007 and January 2008 in Bingol and Amasya provinces in Turkey. The topics most patients were advised on by the pharmacists were drugs 73.7 %, therapy 36.8 % and the physician 31.6 %. There is a statistically significant difference between the community pharmacists of Bingol and Amasya about preventing and minimizing drug and illness interactions (Mann-Whitney U, p=0.05). Community pharmacists in these two provinces perceive themselves as serving in a clinical consultancy role and advise on drug therapy.