@article{ref1,
title="Efforts by pharmacists in community pharmacy in peacetime for headache medical care in emergencies, such as great earthquake and disaster",
journal="Yakugaku Zasshi",
year="2016",
author="Ishii, Masakazu and Katoh, Hirotaka and Ishibashi, Masaaki and Ichikawa, Mizuki and Kurokawa, Shinji and Tsukada, Setsuro and Kasai, Hideyo and Kiuchi, Yuji and Iwamoto, Sanju",
volume="136",
number="11",
pages="1541-1555",
abstract="We herein analyzed the issues that pharmacists in a community pharmacy in peacetime need to prepare for regarding headache medical care in emergencies (the state that supply of medical supplies is difficult) using a questionnaire intended for doctors and pharmacists in a community pharmacy. Recovery rates were 48.0% (96/200) for doctors and 37.3% (112/300) for pharmacists. In order to distinguish between patients for whom pharmacists need to &quot;recommend OTC drugs&quot; and those who need to be encouraged &quot;to consult a hospital or clinic&quot;, doctors indicated that pharmacists need to use an &quot;assistance tool to diagnosis headaches, such as a migraine screener&quot; and &quot;guidelines for chronic headaches&quot;. However, few pharmacists used these tools. Approximately 66.7% of doctors indicated that it is &quot;meaningful&quot; for pharmacists to distinguish patients with headaches. Moreover, doctors indicated the need for guidance by pharmacists in peacetime regarding headache medical care in emergencies. Although 73.2% of pharmacists instructed the patients with headaches of the importance of medication notebooks in emergencies, guidance (&quot;understanding the triggers of headaches&quot;, &quot;understanding the importance of removing the cause of the headache&quot;, &quot;standing OTC drugs&quot; and &quot;standing prescription drugs&quot;) by pharmacists to prepare for an emergency was insufficient. These results provide useful information to improve the efforts by pharmacists in community pharmacies in peacetime for headache medical care in emergencies.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0031-6903",
doi="10.1248/yakushi.16-00084",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1248/yakushi.16-00084"
}