Assessment of Pharmaceutical Care Services Provided by a Community Pharmacy in Kedah, Malaysia

@inproceedings{Sam2015AssessmentOP,
  title={Assessment of Pharmaceutical Care Services Provided by a Community Pharmacy in Kedah, Malaysia},
  author={Aaseer Thamby Sam and Then A and P. Jothy and Subramani Parasuraman},
  year={2015}
}
Objectives: To assess the pharmaceutical care services provided by the pharmacists in a community pharmacy in Kedah. Method: Prospective analysis of pharmaceutical care services provided by a community pharmacy in Kedah, by means of customized questionnaires given to the customers. Convenience sampling technique was used. Descriptive analysis was used to compute the data collected. Results: Out of a total of 508 respondents, 251 (49.41%) of the patients responded that they always go to the… 
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