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Community Pharmacies in Poland—The Journey from a Deregulated to a Strictly Regulated Market

Community pharmacies are the primary entities providing drugs to individual patients in Poland. The pharmacy market has been changing for many years due to significant changes in market regulations. These changes significantly affect the profitability of pharmacies, which may impact the quality of p...

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Autores principales: Wiśniewski, Marcin, Religioni, Urszula, Merks, Piotr
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7728088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33255672
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17238751
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description Community pharmacies are the primary entities providing drugs to individual patients in Poland. The pharmacy market has been changing for many years due to significant changes in market regulations. These changes significantly affect the profitability of pharmacies, which may impact the quality of pharmacotherapy. The small number of pharmacies, which resulted from changes in the law in 2017, can influence the level of patient care. The article presents the community pharmacies market in Poland. Particular attention is paid to the legal regulations affecting community pharmacies and the impact of these regulations on the overall shape of the market. The Polish system’s specificity, including the pharmacy market indicators, has been compared with data from other European Union countries.
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spelling pubmed-77280882020-12-11 Community Pharmacies in Poland—The Journey from a Deregulated to a Strictly Regulated Market Wiśniewski, Marcin Religioni, Urszula Merks, Piotr Int J Environ Res Public Health Review Community pharmacies are the primary entities providing drugs to individual patients in Poland. The pharmacy market has been changing for many years due to significant changes in market regulations. These changes significantly affect the profitability of pharmacies, which may impact the quality of pharmacotherapy. The small number of pharmacies, which resulted from changes in the law in 2017, can influence the level of patient care. The article presents the community pharmacies market in Poland. Particular attention is paid to the legal regulations affecting community pharmacies and the impact of these regulations on the overall shape of the market. The Polish system’s specificity, including the pharmacy market indicators, has been compared with data from other European Union countries. MDPI 2020-11-25 2020-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7728088/ /pubmed/33255672 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17238751 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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