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Parasuraman S, Mueen Ahmed KK, Bin Hashim TS, et al. Knowledge about the availability of the pharmacist in the Nuclear Medicine Department: A questionnaire-based study among health-care professionals. J Basic Clin Pharm. 2014;6(1):19-23doi: 10.4103/0976-0105.145773.
Parasuraman, S., Mueen Ahmed, K. K., Bin Hashim, T. S., Muralidharan, S., Kumar, K. J., Ping, W. Y., Syamittra, B., & Dhanaraj, S. A. (2014). Knowledge about the availability of the pharmacist in the Nuclear Medicine Department: A questionnaire-based study among health-care professionals. Journal of basic and clinical pharmacy, 6(1), 19-23. https://doi.org/10.4103/0976-0105.145773
Parasuraman, Subramani, et al. "Knowledge about the availability of the pharmacist in the Nuclear Medicine Department: A questionnaire-based study among health-care professionals." Journal of basic and clinical pharmacy vol. 6,1 (2014): 19-23. doi: https://doi.org/10.4103/0976-0105.145773
Parasuraman S, Mueen Ahmed KK, Bin Hashim TS, Muralidharan S, Kumar KJ, Ping WY, Syamittra B, Dhanaraj SA. Knowledge about the availability of the pharmacist in the Nuclear Medicine Department: A questionnaire-based study among health-care professionals. J Basic Clin Pharm. 2014 Dec;6(1):19-23. doi: 10.4103/0976-0105.145773. PMID: 25538467; PMCID: PMC4268625.
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J Basic Clin Pharm. 2014 Dec;6(1):19-23. doi: 10.4103/0976-0105.145773.

Knowledge about the availability of the pharmacist in the Nuclear Medicine Department: A questionnaire-based study among health-care professionals.

Journal of basic and clinical pharmacy

Subramani Parasuraman, K K Mueen Ahmed, Tin Soe Saifullah Bin Hashim, Selvadurai Muralidharan, Kalaimani Jayaraja Kumar, Wu Yet Ping, Balakrishnan Syamittra, Sokkalingam Arumugam Dhanaraj

Affiliations

  1. Unit of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, AIMST University, Bedong 08100, Kedah, Malaysia.
  2. Harris Main Road, Benson Town, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
  3. Unit of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, AIMST University, Bedong 08100, Kedah, Malaysia.
  4. Unit of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, AIMST University, Bedong 08100, Kedah, Malaysia.
  5. Unit of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, AIMST University, Bedong 08100, Kedah, Malaysia.

PMID: 25538467 PMCID: PMC4268625 DOI: 10.4103/0976-0105.145773

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to analyze the knowledge about the availability of the pharmacist in the nuclear medicine department among health-care professionals through a prospective cohort study.

METHODS: A total of 741 health-care professionals participated in the study by answering 10 simple questions about the role of the pharmacist in the nuclear medicine department and the availability of pharmacist in the nuclear medicine department. An online questionnaire system was used to conduct the study, and participants were invited to participate through personal communications and by promoting the study through social websites including Facebook, LinkedIn and Google (including Gmail and Google+). The study was conducted between April 2013 and March 2014 using the http://www.freeonlinesurveys.com/Webserver. Finally, the data provided by 621 participants was analyzed. Group frequency analysis was performed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 16 (SPSS Inc. USA).

RESULTS: The participants were from Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, UAE and Nepal. In total, 312 (50.2%) female health-care professionals and 309 (49.8%) male health-care professionals participated in the study. Of the 621 participants, 390 were working in hospitals, and 231 were not working in hospitals. Of the participants who were working in hospitals, 57.6% were pharmacists. The proportion of study participants who were aware of nuclear pharmacists was 55.39%. Awareness about the role of the pharmacist in nuclear medicine was poor.

CONCLUSION: The role of the pharmacist in a nuclear medicine unit needs to be highlighted and promoted among health-care professionals and hence that the nuclear medicine team can provide better pharmaceutical care.

Keywords: Nuclear medicine; nuclear pharmacist; radiopharmaceuticals

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