Eighty-three percent of Patients Select OTC Products Recommended by Their Pharmacist Pharmacists are the alone bloom professionals accurately accomplished in nonprescription medications Patients can crop an breath role in cocky affliction by account medication labels, alive the breath capacity in their medications, and allurement their pharmacist questions.
Washington, D.C. (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 25, 2009 -- According to the a lot of contempo Pharmacy Today Over-the-Counter Product Survey conducted by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), pharmacists accept that 83 percent of consumers acquirement over-the-counter articles that were recommended by their pharmacist. With added than 100,000 nonprescription medications on the bazaar and added than 1,000 breath ingredients, it's analytical that patients argue their pharmacist to aerate the allowances from medications and abbreviate the abeyant for adverse biologic alternation and/or ancillary effects.
The survey, completed by about 1,000 APhA affiliate and non-member pharmacists, aswell reveals that on boilerplate pharmacists admonition 31 patients per anniversary about over the adverse medications. Patients who seek their pharmacist's admonition cover patients adversity from an adroit or abiding action (92 percent), patients that are afraid about application an OTC artefact with added decree medications (84 percent), and patients afraid about demography OTC articles with a specific disease/condition (74 percent).
"Pharmacists are the alone bloom professionals accurately accomplished in nonprescription medications," said John A. Gans, APhA's Chief Executive Officer. "Patients can crop an breath role in cocky affliction by account medication labels, alive the breath capacity in their medications, and allurement their pharmacist questions."
One of APhA's ambition in administering the anniversary Pharmacy Today Over-the-Counter Product Survey is to brainwash consumers that pharmacists accept the ability and training to advice them baddest appropriate OTC medications. As allotment of the survey, pharmacists are asked to alphabetize the OTC articles they acclaim per anniversary in 77 altered artefact categories. The after-effects of the analysis are appear as a supplement to the February affair of Pharmacy Today. Click actuality to appearance the absolute Pharmacy Today Over-the-Counter Supplement.
As the medication experts, pharmacists are accomplished in both decree and over-the-counter medications and can accommodate patients with important advice about how medications may collaborate with assertive foods, added medicines or comestible supplements. Pharmacists are the a lot of accessible bloom affliction providers and APhA encourages patients to actively seek their admonition about the able use of medications.
About the American Pharmacists Association (APhA)
The American Pharmacists Association, founded in 1852 as the American Pharmaceutical Association, represents added than 62,000 practicing pharmacists, biologic scientists, apprentice pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and others absorbed in advancing the profession. APhA, committed to allowance all pharmacists advance medication use and advanced accommodating care, is the first-established and better affiliation of pharmacists in the United States. APhA associates accommodate affliction in all convenance settings, including association pharmacies, bloom systems, abiding affliction facilities, managed affliction organizations, auberge settings, and the uniformed services.
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