Factors related to technical management and adverse drug event reporting in independent retail pharmacies in Cali, Colombia
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2022
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Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
Independent retail pharmacies are required to have a technical manager responsible for the operation and adverse drug event reporting. In this context the following investigation is developed based on one objective: To establish factors related to the technical management and adverse drug event reporting in independent retail pharmacies in Cali. This is a cross-sectional observational study. Data was randomly collected from an estimated sample of 244 independent retail pharmacies. The results show that storage was the area of greatest implementation, 94% of the assessed pharmacies had a technical manager and 50% of them reported adverse drug events. A technical manager, being a chemist, pharmacist, or pharmacy manager, was associated with having computer equipment and dispensing homeopathic products. Adverse drug event reporting was directly associated with having bibliographic resources and inversely associated with the technical manager being a drug retailer. These data show the factors related to technical management of independent retail pharmacies and adverse drug event reporting were identified.
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Cross-sectional studies, Drug effects, Pharmacies, Side effects, Side effects and adverse drug reactions, Technical manager
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Castro Espinosa, J., Jiménez Urrego, Á. M., & Botero Carvajal, A. (2022). Factors related to technical management and adverse drug event reporting in independent retail pharmacies in Cali, Colombia. Heliyon, 8(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09016