ORIGINAL ARTICLESDoes introduction of new “easy to use” inhalational devices improve medical personnel's knowledge of their proper use?
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A study investigating the community pharmacist knowledge about the appropriate use of inhaler, Eastern Region AlAhsa, Saudi Arabia
2013, Saudi Pharmaceutical JournalCitation Excerpt :Similarly, those pharmacists working on chain pharmacies were found more knowledgeable than the pharmacists working on independent pharmacies. These findings comply with the international studies that report pharmacist’s deficient knowledge in explaining the patient about the correct inhaler use (Chopra et al., 2002; Basheti et al., 2005). Poor skills to use inhalers will decrease the confidence level among the community pharmacists and may result in the provision of incorrect instruction to the asthma patient.
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2018, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In PracticeCitation Excerpt :After removing duplicates and unrelated articles, articles not contributing new data or that did not evaluate overall technique were also excluded (Figure 1). After the full screening process was completed, a total of 55 articles met all inclusion criteria.18-20,30-81 The selected studies were performed in 18 different countries, distributed as follows: 19 in the USA; 5 each in Canada, the UK, and Spain; 3 each in Australia and Saudi Arabia; 2 each in France, Brazil, and Jordan; and 1 each in Israel, Turkey, Mexico, Chile, Kuwait, South Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Malaysia.