Reality is likely somewhere in-between: for example, lack of a prescription refill may cause monthly transitions into a drug-missing state, yet the transition back to a drug-taking state may be more variable, depending on the accessibility of the pharmacy, availability of drugs, transportation resources, and other factors.
Different approaches were used to select the pharmacies, depending on the country.
Patients were hesitant to use quality information in choosing a pharmacy (depending on the participant's location) but might consider if moving to a new area or having had a negative pharmacy experience.
Patients described how they wanted to see a big difference before they made a switch in their pharmacy depending on the rating system.
In this sense, not everyone will have access to pharmaceutical care services, depending on the services available at each pharmacy and on the individual means to pay for services.
In Laos, private pharmacies are classified depending on the qualifications of the licensee: class I pharmacies are run by a qualified pharmacist with a university degree; class II are run by an assistant pharmacist; class III are run by any medical professional, usually an auxiliary nurse or low-level pharmacist (the licensee does not have to be a pharmacist or an assistant pharmacist).
The individual assignment of the patient to the IG or CG depended on the community pharmacy to which patients were assigned for care.
The aim of the study is to compare, among socio-economically similar areas, the use of medical services, clinical practice and pharmacy costs depending on the how the primary healthcare teams, that provide these services, are organized according to different managemental formulas.
In Gorakhpur, informal prescriptions were requested from 8%-448%-44%harmacy visits depending on the assigned drug; except for oxytocin, the need for a prescription was higher in this district compared to the other three.
