2- Tuesday Pharmacy Practice News – 15th June

 1 – The role of non-technical skills in community pharmacy practice: an exploratory review of the literature

• Non-technical skills (NTS) are the cognitive and social skills that complement technical skills in safe and efficient practice, and include leadership, teamwork, task management, decision-making and situation awareness.
• This study aims to examine the literature on NTS within a community pharmacy setting and establish the research conducted thus far on each NTS and how they are applied by community pharmacists.

Source: Oxford Academic

2 – The cardiology training needs of general practice-based pharmacists

• As the role of the general practice clinical pharmacist (GPCP) evolves, there has been a shift towards patient-facing roles across multiple conditions.
• This study aimed to measure the self-reported cardiology training needs of GPCPs.
• There are areas of unmet cardiology training needs within GPCPs that require further support.
• As the GPCP role evolves, discussion is needed with national pharmacy stakeholders to decide how to incorporate this learning into routine training programmes.

Source: Oxford Academic

3 – Drug utilization pattern and cost-effectiveness analysis of five most common antibiotics used in Saudi Arabia

• Inappropriate use of antibiotics is a matter of concern worldwide as that may lead to antimicrobial drug resistance. The objective of current study was to assess drug utilization pattern and cost-effectiveness.
• Studies are conducted to analyze the pattern of antibiotics prescribing their adherence to standard guidelines and economic impact on the patients in order to promote their rational use.
• This study declared that (amoxicillin with clavulanic acid) was used the most as first-line agents in treating bacterial infections due to their broad coverage against different microbes.
• Conducting laboratory tests to identify the type of microbe before prescribing could prevent the development of drug resistance and save the antibiotic for future.
• The cost-to-benefit analysis studies of antibiotics must be conducted for each indication that may promote their rational use.

Source: Oxford Academic

4- Antimicrobial stewardship in community pharmacies in Jordan: assessing current status

• The aim of this study was to assess knowledge and perceptions of the Jordanian community pharmacists towards antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial stewardship programmes (ASPs).
• This study highlighted that community pharmacists have a good knowledge in antibiotics and a positive perception regarding ASPs.
• Despite not being highly familiar with ASPs concept, pharmacists showed great support for involvement in ASPs.
• They also encouraged incorporating ASPs within community pharmacy level which is considered crucial to control antimicrobial resistance throughout the world.

Source: Oxford Academic

5 – Patient response, treatments, and mortality for acute myocardial infarction during the COVID-19 pandemic

• COVID-19 might have affected the care and outcomes of hospitalized acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
• This study aimed to determine whether the COVID-19 pandemic changed patient response, hospital treatment, and mortality from AMI.
• During COVID-19, there was a substantial decline in admissions with AMI.

Source: Oxford Academic

6 – Predicting Antibiotic Resistance in Hospitalized Patients by Applying Machine Learning to Electronic Medical Records

• Computerized decision support systems are becoming increasingly prevalent with advances in data collection and machine learning (ML) algorithms.
• However, they are scarcely used for empiric antibiotic therapy.
• Here, they predict the antibiotic resistance profiles of bacterial infections of hospitalized patients using ML algorithms applied to patients’ electronic medical records (EMRs).

Source: Oxford Academic

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