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For pharmacists who do not have this knowledge from primary experience, seeking these reflections from colleagues or through careful listening with patients is essential.
Mr Robinson identified that consumers who, at short notice, book a trip to south-east Asia and don’t plan a GP visit have particularly welcomed his travel health consultations.
The rise of zoonotic diseases
Dat Le MPS 
In a survey of patient adherence to medicines for chronic diseases, 60% of participants stated forgetfulness was the reason for missed doses.5 The study found that missed doses were more commonly reported by patients with vitamin D deficiency, followed by hyperlipidaemia.5 
Identifying whether a medicine is time-critical requires knowledge of the half-life of the medicine, as it is a major determinant of the fluctuation in inter-dose concentrations at a steady state.14 Half-life serves as guidance for making informed recommendations on what to do when a dose of medicine is missed. Four to five half-lives is a general rule of thumb used to approximate the time needed for a medicine to be considered eliminated from the body. At that time point, the plasma concentrations of a given medicine will reach below a clinically relevant concentration.15
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Strategies to prevent a missed or delayed dose
From 1493 onwards, everyone who was anyone caught syphilis. Ivan the Terrible, Henry VIII, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gauguin, Keats, Oscar Wilde, Beethoven, Manet and Al Capone all allegedly picked up the disease. Given that the ‘Great Pox’ was a known venereal disorder, it is no surprise Casanova also made the ever-growing list.
Instilling quality and safety into conversations around the provision of Pharmacist Only medicines.
Effective provision of Pharmacist Only medicines requires a thorough understanding of a patient’s needs in order to ensure the medicine is safe and therapeutically appropriate.
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