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Drive-thru pharmacy services: A way forward to combat COVID-19 pandemic
Countries around the globe have responded to pandemic preparedness and developed strategies to cope with the COVID-19 crisis. In this context, the role of healthcare professionals is of paramount importance. Pharmacists are playing a vital role in dealing, preparedness, prevention, protection, promo...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7373674/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32792322 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2020.07.015 |
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author | Hussain, Rabia Dawoud, Dalia M. Babar, Zaheer-Ud-Din |
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description | Countries around the globe have responded to pandemic preparedness and developed strategies to cope with the COVID-19 crisis. In this context, the role of healthcare professionals is of paramount importance. Pharmacists are playing a vital role in dealing, preparedness, prevention, protection, promoting access to medicines and to improve health outcomes during this crisis. In this context, “Drive-thru” pharmacy services improve access to medicines while ensuring the preventive measures suggested by the World Health Organization. This commentary provides an overview of opportunities and challenges related to the implementation of “drive-thru pharmacy services” and their role in improving public health during this crisis. |
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spelling | pubmed-73736742020-07-22 Drive-thru pharmacy services: A way forward to combat COVID-19 pandemic Hussain, Rabia Dawoud, Dalia M. Babar, Zaheer-Ud-Din Res Social Adm Pharm Article Countries around the globe have responded to pandemic preparedness and developed strategies to cope with the COVID-19 crisis. In this context, the role of healthcare professionals is of paramount importance. Pharmacists are playing a vital role in dealing, preparedness, prevention, protection, promoting access to medicines and to improve health outcomes during this crisis. In this context, “Drive-thru” pharmacy services improve access to medicines while ensuring the preventive measures suggested by the World Health Organization. This commentary provides an overview of opportunities and challenges related to the implementation of “drive-thru pharmacy services” and their role in improving public health during this crisis. Elsevier Inc. 2021-01 2020-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7373674/ /pubmed/32792322 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2020.07.015 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Hussain, Rabia Dawoud, Dalia M. Babar, Zaheer-Ud-Din Drive-thru pharmacy services: A way forward to combat COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Drive-thru pharmacy services: A way forward to combat COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Drive-thru pharmacy services: A way forward to combat COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Drive-thru pharmacy services: A way forward to combat COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Drive-thru pharmacy services: A way forward to combat COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Drive-thru pharmacy services: A way forward to combat COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | drive-thru pharmacy services: a way forward to combat covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7373674/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32792322 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2020.07.015 |
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