TY - JOUR
T1 - Global contributions of pharmacists during the COVID-19 pandemic
AU - Goff, Debra A.
AU - Ashiru-Oredope, Diane
AU - Cairns, Kelly A.
AU - Eljaaly, Khalid
AU - Gauthier, Timothy P.
AU - Langford, Bradley J.
AU - Mahmoud, Sara Fouad
AU - Messina, Angeliki P.
AU - Michael, Ubaka Chukwuemeka
AU - Saad, Thérèse
AU - Schellack, Natalie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Pharmacotherapy Publications, Inc.
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - Throughout the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) global pandemic, pharmacists were rarely mentioned as essential frontline health care providers by the news media, the public, or politicians. Around the world, pharmacists are working on the frontlines of health care every day providing essential health care services during the pandemic. Pharmacists are medication experts providing patient care in a variety of settings including hospitals, clinics, community pharmacies, long-term care, physician offices, and national and public health. In this paper, we describe how pharmacists from high and low-middle income countries contributed to essential patient care and well-being of the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the news media, the public, and politicians often overlooked pharmacists as essential frontline health care providers, we hope that this list of contributions by pharmacists from nine countries in this article can help to change this perspective.
AB - Throughout the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) global pandemic, pharmacists were rarely mentioned as essential frontline health care providers by the news media, the public, or politicians. Around the world, pharmacists are working on the frontlines of health care every day providing essential health care services during the pandemic. Pharmacists are medication experts providing patient care in a variety of settings including hospitals, clinics, community pharmacies, long-term care, physician offices, and national and public health. In this paper, we describe how pharmacists from high and low-middle income countries contributed to essential patient care and well-being of the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the news media, the public, and politicians often overlooked pharmacists as essential frontline health care providers, we hope that this list of contributions by pharmacists from nine countries in this article can help to change this perspective.
KW - antibiotic stewardship
KW - coronavirus
KW - global health
KW - pandemic
KW - pharmacists
KW - pharmacy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85093925925&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/jac5.1329
DO - 10.1002/jac5.1329
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85093925925
SN - 2574-9870
VL - 3
SP - 1480
EP - 1492
JO - JACCP Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy
JF - JACCP Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy
IS - 8
ER -
