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Medicines dispensing practice during the era of COVID-19 pandemic: a commentary

The coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic is putting a huge strain on healthcare systems and is a turning point for the beginning of a global health crisis of an unprecedented condition. As such, the provision of quality pharmacy services particularly, dispensing practice with pre-existing chal...

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Autores principales: Hasen, Gemmechu, Edris, Rashed, Chala, Gadisa, Tefera, Yesuneh, Hussen, Hawi, Tekassa, Tamirat, Suleman, Sultan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7780590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33397497
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40545-020-00285-5
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author Hasen, Gemmechu
Edris, Rashed
Chala, Gadisa
Tefera, Yesuneh
Hussen, Hawi
Tekassa, Tamirat
Suleman, Sultan
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description The coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic is putting a huge strain on healthcare systems and is a turning point for the beginning of a global health crisis of an unprecedented condition. As such, the provision of quality pharmacy services particularly, dispensing practice with pre-existing challenges in resource-limited settings is a grave concern in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, in this commentary we described the pattern of dispensing practice in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic by evaluating the current condition of drug dispensing practice in drug retail outlets of Jimma Town.
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spelling pubmed-77805902021-01-05 Medicines dispensing practice during the era of COVID-19 pandemic: a commentary Hasen, Gemmechu Edris, Rashed Chala, Gadisa Tefera, Yesuneh Hussen, Hawi Tekassa, Tamirat Suleman, Sultan J Pharm Policy Pract Commentary The coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic is putting a huge strain on healthcare systems and is a turning point for the beginning of a global health crisis of an unprecedented condition. As such, the provision of quality pharmacy services particularly, dispensing practice with pre-existing challenges in resource-limited settings is a grave concern in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, in this commentary we described the pattern of dispensing practice in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic by evaluating the current condition of drug dispensing practice in drug retail outlets of Jimma Town. BioMed Central 2021-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7780590/ /pubmed/33397497 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40545-020-00285-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Hasen, Gemmechu
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Chala, Gadisa
Tefera, Yesuneh
Hussen, Hawi
Tekassa, Tamirat
Suleman, Sultan
Medicines dispensing practice during the era of COVID-19 pandemic: a commentary
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title_short Medicines dispensing practice during the era of COVID-19 pandemic: a commentary
title_sort medicines dispensing practice during the era of covid-19 pandemic: a commentary
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7780590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33397497
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40545-020-00285-5
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