Teka Nigist Tilahun, Baye Assefa Mulu
Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
BMC Res Notes. 2018 Oct 4;11(1):700. doi: 10.1186/s13104-018-3807-6.
Pharmacists monitor diabetic patients more often than any other healthcare providers. It is important that they have appropriate counseling practice on diabetes mellitus management. The aim of this study is to assess the counseling practice of community pharmacists for diabetes mellitus patients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Among 300 community pharmacy professionals, 58.3% were male. Nearly half of the community pharmacy professionals delivered appropriate counselling service on the appropriate time to administer each oral anti-diabetic drug and missed oral dose. Only 15.3% of the community pharmacy professionals gave proper counselling on the importance of continuous screening for nephropathy, retinopathy, and neuropathy.
药剂师比其他任何医疗服务提供者更频繁地监测糖尿病患者。他们拥有关于糖尿病管理的适当咨询实践非常重要。本研究的目的是评估埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴社区药剂师对糖尿病患者的咨询实践。
在300名社区药房专业人员中，58.3%为男性。近一半的社区药房专业人员在适当的时间就每种口服抗糖尿病药物的服用和漏服剂量提供了适当的咨询服务。只有15.3%的社区药房专业人员就持续筛查肾病、视网膜病变和神经病变的重要性提供了适当的咨询。
