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Brachystegia Eurycoma and its flow property on tablets
Brachystegia eurycoma seed mucilage was evaluated for use as a tablet binder in metronidazole formulations in comparison with gelatin. The granules were formulated by the wet granulation method using the extracted mucilage and gelatin as binder at 1, 2, 4, 6%w/w concentrations. The granules were found to possess good flow property as indicated by the angle of repose, Hausner’s ratio and Carr’s index. The formulated tablets were evaluated for uniformity of weight, thickness, tablet hardness, friability, disintegration times, drug assay and dissolution profile. Generally, the tablets formulated from Brachystegia eurycoma seed mucilage were softer than those of gelatin, had good uniformity of weight and disintegrated within the official specified times for uncoated tablets. The tablets had a rapid dissolution rate which indicates the efficacy of Brachystegia eurycoma seed mucilage as a binder where fast release of a drug is desired.Download Full Material-N5000
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Abstract
Objectives
To identify both type and frequency of the challenges community pharmacists face when dispensing drugs from hospital discharge prescriptions, to describe the measures undertaken to resolve the issues at stake and to list their consequences.Design
We carried out an observational study in the community pharmacies of the French region of Alsace and asked the community pharmacy staff to review 537 hospital discharge prescriptions in 2013 using anonymous data collection forms.Setting and Participants
Nineteen community pharmacies.Main outcome measures
Number of patients informed about their medication (at hospital and/or community pharmacy), type and frequency of issues encountered during drug dispensing, type and frequency of measures undertaken to resolve the issues, type and frequency of the consequences regarding drug dispensing.Results
Community pharmacists faced 165 challenges from 145 hospital discharge prescriptions (i.e. 27.5% out of 528 analysed prescriptions), mostly correlated to the quality of the prescriptions (n = 100, 60.6%) or to logistical matters (n = 54, 32.7%). A mere 36.8% of the patients received information pertaining to their medication while being hospitalized. Of note, 40.5% of the prescriptions were delivered to pharmacies within 2 days following the patients’ discharge. In order to resolve the different issues preventing drugs from being dispensed (n = 33/145 prescriptions), pharmacists sought information, mainly from patients, colleagues and hospital prescribers. The pharmacists were able to dispense all the drugs prescribed in 138 out of 145 cases (95.2%).Conclusions
This study highlighted the challenges encountered by community pharmacists and their significant contribution to the continuity of care upon patients being discharged from hospitals.
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